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I read a couple of recent articles quoting Tanya Plibersek and Kevin Rudd as saying that: "The figures for April show that 18,736 first home buyers took out first home owners grants in April – the strongest month since the grants were launched in October last year." Does anyone know if there...

Did anyone pick-up on this story in Mortgage Business the other day ? http://www.mortgagebusiness.com.au/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2040&Itemid=37 Basically, the Guardian newspaper is reporting that the UK's largest building society, Nationwide When you consider that all...

The laws in QLD have been in place for a little while now and I wondered what the consensus is on the cost advantages of paying to have individual water meters for existing QLD properties where they are part of a body corporate and have only a central meter ? What has been the experience of...

I recently had cause to browse through the Australian Taxation Offices latest statistics whilst researching for an article. You can find the Taxation Statistics 2006-2007 here: http://www.ato.gov.au/content/downloads/00177078_2007PER5B.pdf On page 21 of this document, you can see that the...

Reported in Business Spectator 25th March 2009 : NSW law to protect borrowers in forced home sales AAP New laws will stop banks and other lenders selling repossessed houses at less than their market value, the NSW government says. Lands Minister Tony Kelly says in the current...