PROPERTY
Life/Risk
Centuria Property Funds Limited is ending the year on a high, following the sale of a landmark Sydney CBD office block....
Funds management
Investors are set to turn to property for yields in 2016, as forecasts predict the Australia equity market is unlikely to provide significant returns....
Financial planning
Seniors downsizing will not improve their quality of life and sale proceeds of their home will not manifest into something contributory, Money Quest believes....
Financial planning
More Australians were sacrificing or delaying life goals in order to be able to buy a home and afford a mortgage, a survey shows....
Policy & Regulation
Advisers could face penalties for assisting foreign investors to breach property ownership laws, under legislation that comes into force today....
Life/Risk
ASIC has secured orders permanently restraining a real estate group from encouraging clients to establish an SMSF in order to invest in property....
Funds management
Increased stamp duty on UK rental properties should be seen in the context of the asset being a long-term investment for expat investors....
Superannuation
ASIC is investigating reports of property developers offering advisers commissions to encourage SMSFs to invest in their projects....
Life/Risk
A Melbourne-based property developer will spend a minimum of three years behind bars for his role in misappropriating more than $750,000 of investors’ funds....
Life/Risk
Aussie household savings directed at property, lifted 25.9 per cent during the September quarter, according to St. George Bank....
Life/Risk
Despite changes to lending rules and property bubble concerns, property investor sentiment still remains upbeat, a report reveals....
Life/Risk
Park Trent Properties Group has been found to have given unlawful advice to over 860 people to establish and switch funds into an SMSF....
Life/Risk
Australia is proving a popular destination for international commercial property investors, with global investment hitting a pre-GFC high in the first half of 2015....
Financial planning
Investors are set to gain access to residential property assets without the use of debt, through Spring Financial Group’s partnership with DomaCom Australia....
Life/Risk
ASIC alleges Jamie McIntyre firms and Macro Realty Development have contravened the Corporations Act through a proposed property investment....
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