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Sep 29, 2026
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Jul 7, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · Lin Lin

    Borrowers do the sums after rate hikes add hundreds to repayments (opens the original)

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    Home owners are facing higher mortgage repayments after the RBA's latest interest rate hike. The quarter of a percentage point increase takes the cash rate to 4.6 per cent, the highest level in almost 15 years. Advocates are warning the Reserve Bank's decision will deepen financial stress for households already struggling. Natasha Luscri-Miller and her partner moved house multiple times in five years and at one point lived in a caravan. Months ago they bought a unit with the government's 5 per c

  2. Article · Sep 18, 2026 · Lin Lin

    Bathla's books show company was $736m out (opens the original)

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    Administrators of the Bathla Group have been given up to another year to run the voluntary administration. The ABC understands the company bank accounts had not been reconciled for some time and may contain about $736 million of overstated inter-company receivables and payables. Administrator Teneo has secured $4.7 million in initial funding and is continuing talks with lenders about longer-term support. Administrators of the Bathla Group have been given up to another year to run the voluntary a

  3. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Lin Lin

    No longer safe as houses: Why no-one is rushing to Bathla's rescue (opens the original)

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    More than two weeks after Bathla Group entered voluntary administration, the company is still standing. Since Teneo took control of the Western Sydney developer, the administration has lurched from one deadline to the next as it scrambles for cash. At several points in these frantic first weeks, shutdown loomed. Each time, Bathla found enough money to survive a little longer. Its latest reprieve came on Monday, when five lenders agreed to provide between $3 and $5 million to keep a much smaller

  4. Article · Sep 11, 2026 · Lin Lin

    Apartment buyer facing $40k shortfall as Bathla collapse puts discount offer at risk (opens the original)

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    An apartment buyer fears she will have to pay almost $40,000 extra at settlement after property developer Bathla collapsed last month. May purchased the apartment after being told about Bathla's "5 per cent incentive" offer that reduced its price. The development has been taken over by another private credit lender but does not fall in the current short-term funding arrangement. When May agreed to buy a $789,000 off-the-plan apartment in north-west Sydney in 2023, an offer from the developer to

  5. Article · Sep 10, 2026 · Lin Lin

    Breaking down Bathla - ABC listen (opens the original)

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    Bathla Group has collapsed owing billions, with hundreds of projects caught up in the fallout. But when a developer that big goes under, the bigger question is what it tells us about the wider market. Was Bathla simply a company that grew too fast and took on too much debt - or is it a sign of deeper pressure across property and construction? In this special episode of ABC Business Daily, ABC Business reporter Lin Lin is joined by AMP Chief Economist Shane Oliver to unpack how higher interest ra

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