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Donald Trump: The Housing Market’s Latest Threat

Cheap mortgages were never going to last forever, but few expected this. A spike in Treasury yields since last week’s election has had a rapid impact on home lending rates. The average 30-year fixed-mortgage rate was 4.02% on Tuesday, up nearly half a percentage point since the election, according to Mortgage News Daily. That marks the fastest […]

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Research analysts predict influx of foreign interest into Australian property safehavens following Trump win

DONALD Trump’s victory as the President-elect of the United States will drive more foreign investors to the safehaven of the Australian property market. REA Group chief economist Nerida Conisbee said the uncertainty that came with the Trump victory meant people were likely to look to markets such as Australia. “Australia will be a beneficiary of […]