How to get a bit of breathing space on your home loan
Opinion
Home loans

How to get a bit of breathing space on your home loan

You can forget about pandemic-level mortgage breaks – but you can still get some reprieve on your loan if you follow these five steps.

  • byNicole Pedersen-McKinnon

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Six more train stations added to high-density housing plan

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  • byAlexandra Smith
Victoria’s new tax is driving landlords out. But is that a bad thing?
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Renting

Victoria’s new tax is driving landlords out. But is that a bad thing?

It has become easy for landlords and real estate agents to point to the recently expanded land tax as a reason for spiking rents. But it’s more complicated.

  • byJim Malo
Boomers are afraid to sell the family home and downsize. Can you blame us?

Boomers are afraid to sell the family home and downsize. Can you blame us?

Until I sat filling yet another box with the contents of yet another bookshelf,it had not struck me that my life now is about getting smaller.

  • byJane Caro
Generational spat over plan for north coast waterfront land

Generational spat over plan for north coast waterfront land

A multimillion-dollar plan to turn waterfront land into a tourism destination and regional “playground” has divided a north coast city struggling to hold on to its younger generations.

  • byCatherine Naylor
How (and why) Labor dumped the key call of its own 2032 venue review
Perspective
Government

How (and why) Labor dumped the key call of its own 2032 venue review

A rare radio appearance by the Queensland premier has shed more light on the surprise move’s timeline – and a key phone call three days before its announcement.

  • byMatt Dennien
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Qld moves to ban rent bidding but ‘tenants offer to pay more’

Qld moves to ban rent bidding but ‘tenants offer to pay more’

Limiting rent increases to once a year and a ban on rent bidding are pitched to “help to stabilise the private rental market”. But debate in Qld is far from over.

  • byMatt Dennien
RBA warns borrowers are in for a tough year. But there’s some relief in sight

RBA warns borrowers are in for a tough year. But there’s some relief in sight

The Reserve Bank says one-in-20 borrowers are in negative cash flow,but the rest are finding ways to make ends meet.

  • byShane Wright andRachel Clun
This view of the Eiffel Tower for $1000 a month:How Paris is solving its housing crisis

This view of the Eiffel Tower for $1000 a month:How Paris is solving its housing crisis

Despite facing the same pressures as other global cities,Paris has a deliberate strategy to retain its poorer citizens – and it spends a lot of money doing so.

  • byThomas Fuller
Sheryl wants to stay in her Gosnells home. But it might not be up to her

Sheryl wants to stay in her Gosnells home. But it might not be up to her

Sheryl Houston is a cleaner who has lived in her “nice old place”,faithfully paying rent,for nine years. But she fears she’ll be on the street come Christmas.

  • byHamish Hastie
High interest rates erode households’ ability to borrow and build

High interest rates erode households’ ability to borrow and build

Australia’s builders are suffering a three-speed market as high interest rates erode households’ ability to borrow and build dwellings.

  • bySimon Johanson