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: 29 May 2017 Has the Turnbull government ‘won’? Has the Coalition government ‘ended’ the housing affordability debate? The topic of housing affordability has dominated news headlines throughout 2017, but since the federal budget earlier this month (remember…
FHBA Market Update: 15/May/2017 Welcome to your weekly FHBA Market Update – Budget Wrap special. Last week Treasurer Scott Morrison delivered the Turnbull government’s budget for 2017 and as widely expected, housing affordability measures were announced by the government. The…
Budget 2017/18 On Tuesday the 9th of May 2017 federal Treasurer Scott Morrison handed down the government’s first budget since narrowly winning last year’s Australian election. For more than two years First Home Buyers Australia (FHBA) has been lobbying the…
Yesterday in Canberra five politicians were spotted sipping a coffee and having a chat in an outdoor cafe. The five politicians weren’t just any politicians however. They were: PM Malcolm Turnbull Treasurer Scott Morrison Assistant Treasurer Michael Sukkar Finance Minister Mathias…
Chief executives from Australia’s big four banks will be appeared before a parliamentary committee last week to answer questions over controversies, scandals and limited rate cuts that have led to the Labor party calling for a banking Royal Commission during the election…