The gold price is expected to keep soaring as the factors driving it higher won’t likely change any time soon, with one analyst tipping it could hit $US3000 an ounce.

Sellers have pushed the sharemarket lower on Friday after the RBA predicted that the economy will take longer to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic compared to earlier forecasts.

The Reserve Bank of Australia has warned further outbreaks of coronavirus will threaten the country’s economic recovery, potentially pushing high levels of unemployment into 2021.

The Kmart Group has vowed to continue paying its staff across the discount department chain’s network in Victoria despite the stage 4 lockdown forcing all metropolitan stores to close.

Aussie hardware giant Bunnings has committed to paying all its permanent employees affected by Victoria’s Stage Four lockdowns their full wages.

The Australian share market finished the week lower after the Reserve Bank revised its outlook for economic recovery from the COVID-19 crisis, suggesting it will be more protracted and weaker than previously thought.

The Australian sharemarket fell slightly for the third time this week, following US-China tensions and the RBA flagging a slower economic recovery in 2021.

A Glen Osmond home offers a tranquil escape from city life and a feeling of being in the Hollywood Hills, despite being just 10 minutes from the city in traffic.

South Australians hunting for a rental property are being urged to look out for fake listings after a spike in scams.

With Australia looking to build its way out of the economic turmoil caused by COVID-19, home hunters have some big incentives to buy at new estates on cities’ fringes.

IT mightn’t be the biggest house on the street, but this small package certainly holds its own.

Buyers could be disadvantaged by a lack of transparency in digital auctions, as renewed COVID-19 restrictions once again ramp up reliance on online bidding platforms.

The Block expert Frank Valentic has shown why he’s risen to become one of Melbourne’s best-known buyer’s advocates, by selling his family home for an Elwood price record.

A Woolworths-owned hospitality group has been fined more than $170,000 after being found to have plied well-known gamblers and high rollers with free alcohol.

A new real estate platform has made it possible to land a foot on Sydney’s property ladder for as little as $25,000.

If you purchased a lotto ticket from Dromana Authorised Newsagency in Victoria’s Mornington Peninsula then it’s time to check your numbers.

Labor says JobKeeper needs to be extended so businesses don’t fall of a cliff come September.

Australia’s response to the coronavirus outbreak will cost it more than $320 billion but one expert believes there could be a second wave of economic losses that may even top this.

Fed Chairman Jerome Powell explained the Fed’s new round of $2.3 trillion in lending programs in an online forum Thursday, but underscored the limits of the central bank’s powers to halt the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic. Photo: Eric Baradat/AFP

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been moved out of intensive care and back to a hospital ward, Downing Street has confirmed.

A mothballed hospital on Melbourne’s fringe could be reopened after a series of multimillion-dollar bids from the private sector.

Auctions have proved successful across Adelaide so far this year, even in the early stages of the coronavirus pandemic, new data shows.

Technologies offered to make transacting property still possible during social distancing restrictions have given home seekers some unexpected advantages when chasing a good price.

The Melbourne auction market was chugging along nicely until being all but ground to a halt by the COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying shutdown measures.

A woman has been filmed racially abusing workers at a Telstra store in Sydney, telling one to "go back to China" and declaring herself "queen" of Australia.