Tag: first home buyer

At its March 2025 meeting, the Reserve Bank of Australia held the cash rate at 4.35 per cent for the fifteenth consecutive board meeting, keeping variable mo…

First-home buyers entering the Australian housing market in 2025 face a deposit hurdle that has grown taller rather than shrinking, despite the Reserve Bank…

The RBA held the cash rate at 4.35 percent in May 2024, and forward-market pricing suggests at least one more cut won’t materialise until early 2025. For fir…

For a first‑home buyer in Sydney’s western suburbs, a $10,000 grant can read like a rounding error against a median dwelling price still hovering near $1.1 m…

The Victorian property market has entered a phase of structural adjustment that sharpens the financial arithmetic for first home buyers. Melbourne’s median d…

Single-parent households in Australia face a housing affordability equation that has become more unforgiving in the past 12 months. Even as the Family Home G…

First home buyers entering the property market in 2025 face an uncommon set of constraints. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has kept its resid…

In the six months to December 2024, the median first home buyer deposit requirement across Australia’s five mainland capitals reached $119,200, up 5.3 per ce…

The federal Home Guarantee Scheme was rebuilt from the ground up on 1 July 2024, and the income thresholds that first home buyers need to sit under are now m…

The Lenders Mortgage Insurance (LMI) waiver available through family guarantee structures used to be a niche option. In 2025 it has become a strategic lever…

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