First home buyers receive at least $14,000
Nov 18, 2008 Homeowners Specials, Trends
The Australian Government’s announcement of a First Home Owner Boost is a welcome news.
According to the announcement from the Commonwealth, first home buyers now receive an automatic doubling of the First Home Owners Grant to $14,000. First home buyers building their first home receive an additional $7,000 raising their grant to $21,000.
As with other grants, [...]
Tags: grant, homeowners, interest rate
Mixed trends in global house prices
Sep 21, 2008 Daily Reads, Trends
According to the latest survey of house price indicators, there appears to be mixed trends on global house price movements. In most countries in Europe, major real house price falls occurred during the year to end of Q1 2008. Ireland had a fall of 13.2%. US prices were also reported to have declined [...]
Tags: global trends, house prices
