More and more people are bypassing real estate agents and using social media to sell their properties — but what are the risks of going it alone?

Regulators’ efforts to curb a surge in lending to property investors appear to be having an effect, the RBA says.

THE frustration of wasted weekends spent searching in vain for the perfect home could be consigned to the past.

THE Alex Waislitz-backed listed payday lender Money3 is raising $20m to purchase the assets of PAID, an online provider of credit products.

APA Group has made the second biggest Australian acquisition of the year, snaring BG Group’s Queensland coal-seam gas pipeline.

CRUISE giant P&O is muscling in on the lucrative events sector for a share of the annual $13 billion-plus conference dollar.

Billionaire Alex Waislitz stands to make millions after two financial services companies agreed to merge.

Single parents will be given federal government assistance to purchase property, under measures included in Tuesday's budget.

With unprecedented support from global governments, the stock market has boomed, driving up billionaire's wealth even while the real economy has faced the deepest recession in a century and the poor have gotten poorer.

A grandmother had properties worth more than $2 million sold off underneath her by a relative without her knowledge, all because of a form that gave him unfettered power to do whatever he wanted with her estate.

Josh Frydenberg is being warned that massive federal government debt from emergency pandemic spending could double in coming decades as borrowing costs rise and spending costs blow out.

TELSTRA is set to pick up more than 50 per cent of the design and planning work for the ­National Broadband Network.

IRON ore has broken a run of nine straight red trading sessions, but only marginally, and there’s little sign of a sustained rebound.

Investors would do well to focus on fundamentals driving different segments of retail and UBS offers useful insights.

CLIVE Palmer has suffered another defeat in his ongoing legal war with China’s Citic.

The ASX has bounced back to close slightly firmer, as surprisingly strong employment figures rallied sentiment.

Fiji's tourism industry, the backbone of the country's economy, is under threat as coral reefs are killed off. But a US-born marine biologist known as "the coral gardener" says he may have a solution to the problem.

While many Australians provide their phone number and email address when booking domestic flights, not everybody does, but now the Government wants airlines to ensure contact tracers are able to access the information they need.

Analysts say mounting energy insecurity concerns and high prices are behind increased investment in domestic oil and gas projects, sparking fears among environmentalists.

RENEWED concern about the global economy triggered a joint sell-off in shares and the dollar yesterday.

DESPITE the doom and gloom in the commodity sector, some big market names have had a bumper year.

The chances that the release of Quindell’s accounts could quickly clear the air for Slater & Gordon have diminished.

LISTED healthcare providers took a battering on the local bourse yesterday.

AUSTRALIA’s economy won’t grow strongly enough next year to warrant an interest rate rise, RBA board member John Edwards says.

The Reserve Bank is holding the line on low interest rates for years to come, but some economists warn the risks of an inflation "rebirth" are rising, an issue the US central bank will be discussing this week.