New Home Lending At 5 ½ Year Low
HIA, Australia’s largest building industry association, said that home lending fell for the sixth consecutive month in July, highlighting the urgent need for further interest rate cuts.
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Lending your reputation could cost your livelihood
A number of members have contacted HIA in the last month to clarify the issue of what constitutes licence lending.
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Housing Fund to Improve Housing Affordability
Australia ’s biggest residential building association was delighted to launch the Housing Affordability Fund (HAF) today with the Prime Minister the Hon. Kevin Rudd and Federal Minister for Housing the Hon. Tanya Plibersek.
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More Rates Relief Needed to Arrest Decline in Home Lending
Another fall in home lending in June represents the ninth monthly decline in the past year, and further rate cuts are needed to turn the situation around, according to peak building and construction industry organisation Master Builders Australia.
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ABCC Must Stay Despite Union Rallies
Master Builders Australia, the peak body for the building and construction industry, has warned that the public rallies organised by building unions today are a throwback to times of industrial mayhem and worksite bullying, and show the need for a ¡§strong cop on the beat¡¨.
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Infrastructure construction boom to go on :John Holland
Leighton Holdings Ltd subsidiary John Holland Group Pty Ltd says it expects the infrastructure construction boom in China and Australia to continue for many years, which has been reflected in its work in hand at record levels.
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GBCA Submission to Federal Government's Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Green Paper
The Green Building Council of Australia has lodged two documents with the Federal Government. More information »