Interest Rate

Sentiment about the commercial property market has gone up with National Australia Bank’s (NAB’s) Commercial Property Index rising five points to +21 in the fourth quarter of last year. These results come from NAB’s Commercial Property Survey Q4 2016 which surveyed 250 panelists and put the index at its highest point since the survey began in 2010. These improvements over the fourth quarter were due to big gains in CBD hotels (up 34 points to +88) and small gains in […]

With lenders increasingly out of sync with the RBA, it’s no wonder people are feeling jittery about interest rates. Since their failure to pass on the central bank’s 25 basis point cut to the official cash rate in August last year, many have been upping rates, with the result that the gap between the rate set by the RBA and interest rates offered by lenders is growing. The easiest way to protect yourself against the increasing costs is to factor […]