Property
Saving money: How to live with extended family without drama
Intergenerational living can save you money, but you need to plan for scenarios from divorce or ill health to jealous siblings or death.
Ask Paul: Should I buy an investment property or a home?
"Any advice on how I could get my foot into the property market as an investor?" Lucille asks Paul Clitheroe. "Or should I aim to purchase my own place as an owner-occupier?"
Housing policies: What are Labor and the Coalition proposing?
With less than three weeks until the 2025 federal election, both major parties have unveiled key housing policies. Here's what's on offer.
Why APRA’s 3% serviceability buffer is back in the news
The serviceability buffer requires banks to assess your ability to pay your mortgage if interest rates jump. So why does Peter Dutton want to change it?
Are ‘innovative’ prefab homes the answer to the housing crisis?
Pre-fab homes avoid the delays, high costs and frustrations of on-site construction, so what is the catch?
Read this before approaching the Bank of Mum and Dad
You've been saving up for a house deposit and it feels like you're getting nowhere. If you're fortunate, your parents might help you out. But you need to know the risks.
The cities where rents are soaring faster than property prices
New research reveals the markets where renters have experienced a much larger price hike, as a percentage, than landlords have seen in their mortgage costs.
The truth about the ban on foreign property investors
The Albanese Government's new ban on foreign investors buying established homes in Australia is unlikely to improve housing affordability.
Friends With Money #191: Five myths about buying property
Buying a property for the first time can be hard enough as it is, let alone with all the myths and misconceptions out there. Buyers agent Emily Wallace joins us on Friends With Money.
Friends With Money #190: Inheritance and tax
Trillions of dollars will be inherited in the next decade. H&R Block's Mark Chapman joins the Friends With Money podcast to discuss the tax implications.
