HeyJaredJhoanna Hines
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 7
- Latest publication
- Aug 7, 2026
- Outlet visibility, for Australian Broker
- Top 5M sites
- Earliest in this view
- Jul 10, 2026
Latest articles
Record rents confirm rental stress warning; FBAA tells government to act (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Record rents are compounding rental stress for first home buyer clients. The Finance Brokers Association of Australia (FBAA) says the federal government must now admit its investor tax changes have backfired. National median rents hit a record $670 per week in June 2026. That is a 3.1% rise over the quarter. Year-on-year, rents are up 6.4% according to realestate.com.au Market Insight data powered by PropTrack. The capital city median hit $690 per week, $10 more than the previous quarter. FBAA c
Westpac: Australian housing market in 'air pocket', not a crash (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Australia's housing market is cooling faster than Westpac anticipated. The bank's chief economist says that does not mean a crash is coming. In a Westpac IQ note published 7 August 2026, Luci Ellis, chief economist at Westpac Group, used the term "air pocket" to describe the current phase. She pointed to the dual effect of higher interest rates and the May budget's tax changes. Ellis put the position plainly in the note. ‘Tight monetary policy plus tax changes add up to a powerful combination we
Finance and property firms face growing customer expectations (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Client demands on finance and property businesses have reached levels unmatched by any other industry in Australia. Pitcher Partners’ Business Radar, which surveyed 316 middle-market owners and leaders nationally, found the sector under more pressure than any other to deliver faster, technology-enabled service. Virtually all finance and property businesses – nine in 10 – said clients were pressing them for quicker responses to enquiries. The broader business average sat at 75%. For mortgage brok
Customer Owned Banking Code of Practice review tightens hardship rules (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Australia’s mutual banks and credit unions are facing a sweeping overhaul of their consumer obligations. Independent reviewer Eva Scheerlinck of Scheerlinck Consulting (pictured above) delivered the final report of the Customer Owned Banking Code of Practice review to the Customer Owned Banking Association (COBA) on 31 July 2026. COBA announced the outcome on 6 August in Sydney. The Code governs how mutual banks and credit unions treat customers. It covers more than 5.4 million Australians and r
Arca releases financial abuse credit report principles for brokers (opens the original)
Read excerpt
Australia’s consumer credit industry this week released its first set of guidelines on domestic abuse and credit reporting. Brokers whose clients carry financial abuse credit report damage now have an industry-wide framework to draw on. The Principles of Best Practice: Domestic Abuse and Credit set out how credit providers and reporting bodies should handle records damaged by financial abuse. Peak body Arca, the Australian Retail Credit Association, developed the guidance. It consulted regulator
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
Top 5M sites
For Australian Broker, the outlet · Measured Aug 1, 2026
Website popularity band, not a count of readers or article views.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.