FHBA Market Update: 31 July 2017 In today’s FHBA Market Update we take a look at why housing affordability has returned to the headlines, the very latest on the First Home Super Saver Scheme, lenders mortgage insurance (what is it and…
FHBA Market Update: 17 July 2017 In today’s FHBA Market Update we take a look at the very latest on the First Home Super Saver Scheme, calls for the First Home Owners Grant to be extended to include established housing (rather…
FHBA Market Update: 4 July 2017 On 1 July (the start of the new financial year) there was a few states based changes in relation to first home buyer policies, in particular the First Home Owners Grant (FHOG) and stamp…
FHBA Market Update: 28/02/2017 IT was dubbed ‘Super-Super Saturday’. The last weekend for summer 2016-2017 saw a massive 3,232 auctions held, the most ever recorded for the month of February. We had hoped last Friday in our FHBA Weekend Preview that the increased amount…
The housing finance data for May 2016 was released yesterday by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). The report showed that the number of first home buyer commitments as a percentage of total owner occupied housing finance commitments fell again (down to 13.9% in…