墨尔本和阿德莱德未来三年房价升幅预计将达16%，堪培拉则上升15%，霍巴特涨幅最低为14%，中间价为全澳最低$365,000元。
At least one death every three weeks - thats ridiculous and why is this so under-reported. A woman and child lost their lives - it was murder suicide and it warrants a small mention in an article on barriers - it should have been splashed over the front page - that poor child - imagine the fear in that child during the plunge to its unfortunate AND preventable death - absolutely tragic! Awareness assists in prevention - stop hiding the truth
June 10: A 17-year-old girl was waiting alone at a bus stop in Walters Road, Blacktown when she was approached by a man who asked for money, before threatening her with a knife. She pulled away from the offender as a bus approached.
June 2: A 17-year-old girl was sitting at a bus shelter on Green Road, Kellyville when she was approached by a man who produced a knife and threatened her, before she fled and boarded a passing bus.
May 29: A 16-year-old girl was walking along Pye Road, Quakers Hill, when she was approached by a man and threatened with a knife. The man forced the teenager to walk along Montrose Street, heading towards Highfield Road, before diverting into the driveway of a home. The girl was sexually assaulted and then robbed before the man ran from the scene.
May 27: A 16-year-old schoolgirl was passing a bus stop on Holbeche Road, Arndell Park, at 9.40am when she was approached by a man who threatened her with a knife and demanded personal property. The girl ran away and was uninjured.
April 18: A 19-year-old woman was waiting at a bus stop on Hill Road, Castle Hill, when she was threatened by a man at knife-point and indecently assaulted.
Houses going up at Point Cook, west of the city.Planners and architects say Melbourne's new estates and the houses on them are cheaply and poorly designed.Poor planning, indifferent design and cost-cutting in Melbourne's newest suburbs are condemning residents to a a life of misery,‘failing future generations'
Borrowers are shying away from fixed-rate home loans, a sign of growing belief that the economy is slowing enough to ward off interest rate rises.
But traders in financial markets are punting on the opposite. Yesterday, they lifted their bets that the Reserve Bank will raise rates more than once by the end of the year.
The percentage of new borrowers signing up for fixed-rate home loans has grown steadily since mid-2005.
By March, almost one in four borrowers chose to lock in their home loan rate to avoid being caught out by more increases.
But the demand for fixing loans waned in April, and fixed-rate loans dropped back to 17.5 per cent of the total market.
A home was classed as not affordable for a first home buyer if purchasing would mean they would spend more than 30 per cent of their income on mortgage repayments.不过，该项研究也发现了四个首次购房者最能够承受的悉尼城区，分别是Greenwich，Hillsdale，Mount Druitt和Lakemba。
