$6 trillion
…was the value of Australia's residential property market with the mortgage debt over the properties worth about $1.5 trillion, according to CoreLogic RP Data.
42 per cent
… was the share of new mortgages that were interest-only in the March 2015 quarter; a 20 per cent increase from a year earlier.
348,903
…was the number of sale listings of residential properties, nationally, in July 2015, an increase of more than 4 per cent from July 2014, according to SQM Research.
19.8 per cent
..was the growth in Sydney house prices over the past year. According to property valuers, Propell, that is an all-time record for house price growth in Australia.
$975 million
…was Qantas's full-year underlying pre-tax profit to June 30. A stunning turn-around on last year's $646 million loss.