by Wendy Chamberlain | Mar 28, 2020 | Buying a Home
The Reserve Bank of Australia has decided to further cut the cash interest rate to its record low of 0.25 percent. This is to help prevent a recession in the country caused by the corona virus pandemic. The RBA revealed the currency has lost 20 percent this year. RBA...
by Wendy Chamberlain | Mar 21, 2020 | Buying a Home
Residents of Australia who live abroad will no longer be able to enjoy capital gains tax (CGT) exemption on their family home. This is after the Australian Parliament passed new laws that changed certain policies on the CGT. More than 100,000 Australian expats are...
by Wendy Chamberlain | Mar 19, 2020 | Buying a Home
Many first home buyers in Melbourne are still relying on their parents to get into the property ladder. New research has found that more than a third of parents in Victoria provide up to $50,000 in assistance to their children. Data from Mozo.com.au revealed that 37...
by Wendy Chamberlain | Mar 3, 2020 | Buying a Home
The Reserve Bank of Australia today decided to further reduce the current official cash interest rate by another 0.25 basis points. This makes the new 0.50 percent rate the new historic low after the last cut in October 2019. The rate has been kept on hold since its...
by Wendy Chamberlain | Feb 11, 2020 | Suburb Profile
Buying a property in Glen Iris can be a daunting and difficult process. For many of us, it is something we only do a few times in our lives. A buyers advocate (also known as a buyers agent or property finder) can be an enormous help to make it easy to buy a home or...
