property

Financial planning

ATO draft ruling targets 'substantial changes'

OnePath national technical manager Graeme Colley has clarified exactly what constitutes a repair under the Australian Taxation Office's (ATO's) recent draft ruling on lim...

Financial planning

Financial planning and responsible investment - the new paradigm

There has been a growing interest in responsible investments over the past year, particularly among retail clients. Climate change and rising sea levels are just some of ...

Funds management

AREITs healthier but caution urged

The fundamentals of Australian real estate investment trusts (AREITs) are much healthier in 2011 than they were in previous years, but not all investors should re-enter t...

Financial planning

Australians want to 'do better' when it comes to home ownership - Chapman

The 'great Australian dream' of home ownership is still alive, according to St. George Bank's Australian Home Aspiration report....

Superannuation

SMSFs and property repairs explained

Martin Breckon explains when repairs to property acquired in a SMSF using a limited recourse borrowing arrangement could be considered improvements, and the implications ...

Financial planning

van Eyk predicts continued volatility and sector concentration

The Australian market will continue to see elevated levels of volatility for the foreseeable future, while there will be a continuation of the concentration within the fi...

Superannuation

Borrowing to acquire property using your SMSF

There has been a growing interest in the use of strategies to acquire, subdivide, renovate or develop property using a self-managed super fund (SMSF). Aaron Dunn explains...

Financial planning

'Kidults' call on Baby Boomer parents to help fund first home

One in five Baby Boomers still expect to help their adult-children buy their first home, a RaboDirect survey has found. ...

Funds management

Why advisers want more property advice

With more and more investors wanting access to property investment advice, the expertise required is often beyond the scope of most financial advisers....

Superannuation

SMSF borrowing shifts to financial assets

A Multiport survey of 1,600 SMSFs has found trustees using limited recourse borrowing arrangements moved away from property and towards financial assets in the June quart...

Financial planning

House prices beyond buyers' reach

Australian house prices have become severely unaffordable in the last 10 years, with predictions stating it will take another 10 years of flat house prices and increasing...

Financial planning

Gen Y purchase for investment first

Almost half of Generation Y buyers will buy an investment property as their first purchase, putting aside the traditional 'Australian Dream' of a home, according to a sur...