Some 218,700 Australian households were at risk of having to sell, refinance or lose their homes in February, according to the Fujitsu Mortgage Stress-O-Meter, up 2 per cent from the previous month. ''Across Australia the average loan size since 2005 has risen by 40 per cent underlining that

In a speech to an urban development conference in Sydney, the Reserve Bank's assistant governor , Philip Lowe said Australia has entered the current period of expansion with considerably less spare capacity than was originally thought to be the case. "Elsewhere, the challenge is to