Opinion

The annual convention of the American Mortgage Bankers Association was recently held in San Diego, California, and I took the opportunity to attend to network, observe and monitor trends in ...

Growing your own business successfully is frequently a challenge for business owners. Many actually think that growth creates too many headaches and decide to try to keep their business ...

The Australian media has been saturated with coverage of the rise and rise of residential property prices over the past 18 months, particularly the Sydney market and some parts of Melbourne

Aaron Shapiro is CEO of Huge, where he helps some of the world’s largest companies reimagine how they interact with their customers and manage their businesses in the digital economy.

One of the biggest challenges facing business owners and managers is how to improve productivity within their organisation–that is, how to get more out of the same resources.

As brokers, you’ve probably seen it all. Exciting new products hitting the market and creating a frenzy, then spectacularly imploding and destroying bucketloads of wealth in the process. ...

A recent depreciation of the Australian dollar effectively makes the Australian property market, and all assets for that matter, look cheaper to foreign investors.

Marketplace lending is one of the biggest disruptions faced by the Australian financial sector. It is the democratisation of consumer lending, and promises to shake up a market dominated by ...

Now that we’re into the new financial year, many brokerages have started to see how the federal budget will affect them. But with some winners and some losers, the majority of brokerage ...

With brokers now writing more than 50 per cent of home loans in Australia, the same trend is well and truly playing out in commercial finance.

Retrospectively terminating negative gearing would not only be inherently unfair to the increasing number of Australians who have included property as a part of their long-term financial ...

This article is for those brokers out there who currently provide a commercial lending service or who are contemplating entering into the space.

The federal government needs to clamp down on overseas sellers of second-hand Australian property to foreigners.

There has been a great deal of press speculation around the issue of a potential ‘housing bubble’ and a great number of conflicting opinions too.

Most people don’t like small talk – we’re all far too busy and important, and just want to get on with whatever it is we’re doing. The thing is, every person we meet has the potential to ...

As Australian banks seek to slow down growth in investor lending, their changes are likely to be entirely dependent on the regulator.

I have observed many financial service arms start up within real estate organisations through my many years in the real estate industry. Some have succeeded, others have failed.

My co-chief executive, Simon Henry, was on CNBC Asia in April, talking about the countries where Chinese buy the most expensive homes.

Foreign property investors are being used as cash cows by the Victorian government, which has the potential to impact on foreign investment in the state.

It seems everyone is talking Bitcoin and blockchain these days. The financial press, announcements from the stock market, and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs all see blockchain as a massive ...