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NAB 2024 outlook: housing affordability, AI and climate change in-focus

NAB CEO Ross McEwan reflects on the big issues facing Australia in 2024, including housing affordability, AI and climate change.

  • 24.01.2024
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  • Property

Young Aussies get on the property ladder ‘with a little help from their friends’

NAB research today reveals that 40% of young Australians are considering buying a property with someone other than a romantic partner.

  • 27.01.2023
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  • Property

Signs of spring rebound for the Aussie housing market

Confidence in the Australian housing market has bounced back in the third quarter as the RBA slows the pace of rate rises.

  • 28.10.2022
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  • Home loans

Home buyers to benefit from NAB’s energy efficient incentive

NAB has today announced the launch of lower variable rates for eligible home loan customers on homes that meet energy efficient criteria.

  • 17.10.2022
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  • Property

Key home buying factors revealed in new research

Borrowing capacity tops the list of what’s most important when purchasing a home, according to new NAB research out today.

  • 06.10.2022
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  • Property

NAB welcomes the Regional First Home Buyer Guarantee launch

NAB is looking forward to helping even more Australians to buy their very own home with the launch of the Regional First Home Buyer Guarantee from 1 October.

  • 28.09.2022
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  • First home buyers

Australia’s first home buyer suburb hotspots

New NAB lending data released today reveals Western Sydney is leading the way when it comes to hotspots for first home buyers.

  • 22.08.2022
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  • Property

Buy or hold? Aussies happy to be patient for home ownership dream

New NAB data shows the number of Australians who think now is a good time to buy a home has fallen to 18 per cent in Q2 2022, down from 23 per cent in the previous quarter.

  • 18.07.2022
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  • First home buyers

Home Guarantee Scheme helping younger and solo home buyers into property market

Australians under 30 and those planning to buy a property solo are the big winners in first home buyer schemes, new NAB data reveals.

  • 01.07.2022
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  • Property

Renovate or invest? Home equity just got interesting

NAB research today reveals seven in 10 Aussies are using the equity in their home to renovate their home or invest in property, while many have taken the opportunity to get ahead of their loan repayments.

  • 29.06.2022
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  • First home buyers

NAB CEO addresses AFR Banking Summit

NAB CEO Ross McEwan highlighted Australia’s chronic lack of social and affordable housing, and what can be done about it, in a wide-ranging speech on May 31.

  • 31.05.2022
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  • Property

NAB Residential Property Survey Q1 2022

Housing market sentiment buoyed by growing rents as prices slow, but confidence slips as expectations for price growth is scaled back.

  • 21.04.2022
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  • First home buyers

NAB welcomes expansion of Home Guarantee Schemes

NAB is looking forward to helping more Australians buy their very own home with the expansion of the Home Guarantee Schemes.

  • 28.03.2022
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  • Property

1 in 4 Aussies say now is a good time to buy a home

A quarter of Australians still believe now is a good time to buy a home while inflation is beginning to have an impact on renovation plans, according to new NAB research.

  • 24.03.2022
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  • Property

What’s most important to Aussies when they buy a home?

New NAB data shows that while the need for a work or study area was important in 2021, the amount homebuyers are prepared to borrow to buy a home is now the top factor.

  • 03.02.2022
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  • Property

Location, location, location: How many Aussies are right where they want to be?

New NAB research shows just over 70% of Australians currently live in a location they love.

  • 13.12.2021
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