Month: April 2022

Sydney, Melbourne mortgage repayments to rise by thousands a year

Home owners need to start preparing for higher interest rates and thousands of dollars a year in extra repayments after the Reserve Bank of Australia gave its strongest indication it will start increasing rates this year. Big bank economists are pencilling in a rise in the cash rate in June from 0.1 per cent – …

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Comment: Where Gold Coast property sits between boom and bust

Somewhere between boom and bust is a holding pattern where the Gold Coast property market sits right now. The release of CoreLogic’s home value index confirmed house prices had fallen in the big smoke markets of Sydney and Melbourne, by 0.2 and 0.1 per cent respectively, for the first time since the pandemic. Nationwide, REA …

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Believe in recovery: Sober living facility opens in Lowell, honoring former resident

The home took a village, as well as a collective lot “of blood, sweat, tears and cash,” said Robert Gignac, chair of the foundation’s board of directors. The Review Review Harbor House Sudbury native spent time in prison, experienced homelessness and attended several detox and rehabilitation programs across Massachusetts, none of which seemed to worked. …

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How high will interest rates go and what will your mortgage be?

Australia is in a precarious position as inflation expectations soar and forecasts predict a very worrying sign for mortgages. It’s not all bad news though. ANALYSIS With Australian inflation expectations soaring on the back of higher petrol prices, futures markets have ramped up their forecasts for Australian interest rates. The latest futures market forecast has the Reserve …

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