PROPERTY

Life/Risk

Free office space is becoming harder to find across Australia, research from property management group, JLL, reveals....

Financial planning

Former Macquarie Bank director, Guy Hedley, takes chair at Spring FG. ...

Superannuation

SMSFs investing in residential property should look for “impartial advice” rather than falling for those looking to make a sale, an accountant and financial adviser firm ...

Funds management

A Victorian property developer who defrauded investors has been sentenced to five years and three months in jail, following an investigation by ASIC....

Policy & Regulation

Property investors have been warned they be in the tax office’s sights and must remain wary of claiming deductions if their property hasn’t been leased out in the last fi...

Funds management

Retail and industrial properties are at the heart of a resurgence in the commercial property sector, according to the Property Council/IPD Australia All Property Index Q2...

Funds management

DomaCom claims there are no truly innovative products in financial services ...

Funds management

Australian property investors are missing out on an opportunity to cut their taxable income by failing to correctly assess their property’s annual depreciation....

Superannuation

ASFA argues letting first home buyers access their superannuation to pay their home deposits will compromise retirement standards and make super inequitable....

Policy & Regulation

The ATO has warned property developers not to use trusts to give back proceeds from property as capital gains rather than income....

Funds management

A review of disclosure to investors by the unlisted property industry has been described as “disappointing” by ASIC....

Funds management

Property funds are seeing growth in their assets under management for the first time since the GFC, an industry survey reveals....

Funds management

Australia’s property market is being driven by a surge in first time investors, who view it as a way to future proof their wealth, a survey reveals....

Editorial

Direct property still seems a hot item for investors, with the housing market on fire over the December quarter. While figures have dropped slightly over the March quarte...

Editorial

With traditional asset choices no longer offering the portfolio diversification they once did for Australian investors, Alexander McNab makes the case for alternative ass...

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