Opinion

Abolishing stamp duty for first home buyers is likely to create some headaches for eligible buyers who have recently entered into contracts. 

Technology has come a long way since the Nokia 3310. The novelty of playing Snake on your mobile phone is now superseded by superfluous functions which have changed the way that we do ...

If you put in a loan application before checking your client’s important credit files, the application may be rejected. This is a waste of your time, right? And, more importantly, it will ...

Disruption is inevitable in all industries including real estate, says CoreLogic CEO Lisa Claes. But while we can’t halt the wave of change, we can ride it to our advantage.

It has been increasingly difficult for first home buyers to get their foot on the property ladder over the past year, especially in the booming property markets of Sydney and Melbourne.

Technology is not only changing the way the financial services sector interacts with clients, but how it operates internally too, writes Super Recruiters’ Guy McKanna, but finding the right ...

Referrals are the bread and butter of broking. The relationship we have with our referral partners is so crucial to our business as they constantly provide us with new leads.

The Victorian state government's announcement that from 1 July first home buyers in Victoria will not have to pay stamp duty has brought about various opinions from experts on what the ...

Like so many of us in modern business, William Muir, an evolutionary biologist at Purdue University, was interested in productivity and performance – only he turned his attention to chickens

As financial services firms continue to innovate, cyber criminals are presented with new avenues of attack – which means cyber security should be a focus for companies from the beginning of ...

Ever since we were young, we’ve been given advice.

For many brokers, 2016 was a challenging year. Changes in credit policy were plentiful, with banks interpreting APRA’s guidelines in varied ways. Banks used pricing as a lever to drive and ...

Federal MP Andrew Broad’s recent ill-considered suggestion for banks to lend 100 per cent of the purchase price to first home buyers would quickly see prices sky rocket, with borrowers ...

Despite reports to the contrary, an oversupply crisis is not looming over Melbourne’s property industry.

Credit providers will need to embrace newer technologies and real-time data processing in order to meet changing client needs, writes Experian’s Suzanne Steele.

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) November 2016 building approvals data, there were 17,569 houses and units approved for construction across the country over the month

Unless you’ve been too busy writing business to read any articles since 2010, you would have heard of the term peer-to-peer lending.

As a representative of Gen Y, I will be the first to put my hand up to admit that I am incredibly demanding and I want everything.

There has been much debate recently about the use of open data in financial services, with government and industry alike weighing in on innovation, data ownership, privacy and related issues

At this time of the year, business owners are naturally reflecting on the successes, failures and lessons of 2016 and setting their strategy and goals for 2017.