Tag: Investor

Australian Taxation Office data-matching programs now cross-reference rental property schedules against over 1.6 million residential investment dwellings eac…

A growing number of property investors who bought during the 2021–22 boom are now confronting a lender-imposed straitjacket they did not see coming. The setu…

From midnight on 31 December 2023, the calculus of Victorian land tax shifted permanently for thousands of property investors. The State Taxation Acts Amendm…

The Reserve Bank of Australia held the cash rate at 4.35% p.a. in November 2023, pausing after 400 basis points of tightening since May 2022. That pause does…

The Australian Taxation Office sharpened its focus on property co-ownership from 1 July 2024, expanding its data-matching program with state revenue offices…

An investor’s borrowing capacity no longer hinges solely on the headline cash rate after the Reserve Bank cut the official cash rate to 4.10% on 18 February…

When the Reserve Bank of Australia lifted the cash rate for the thirteenth time in November 2023, property investors who had built portfolios on the back of…

The Australian Taxation Office has not been subtle about its intentions. On 17 July 2024, the ATO released its annual SMSF statistical overview confirming th…

With new interest rate floors being embedded across the major banks’ serviceability calculators and a 3.0 percentage point buffer still policing every dollar…

Australia’s interest-only lending landscape has shifted into its most consequential phase since APRA’s 2017 macroprudential crackdown. The 2020-21 vintage of…

The Reserve Bank of Australia’s cash rate, held at 4.35% since November 2023, has shifted the arithmetic of holding a home. Variable-rate repayments on a $75…

With the Reserve Bank of Australia holding the cash rate at 4.35% through its September 2024 meeting and a federal election due by May 2025, the tax treatmen…