Read more about our latest property research from the Inner West of Sydney in this months Ark Informer. We delve into the financial performance of property around Sydney and give you free insights in the market for the coming months.

The RBA today has decided to leave rates unchanged. Their decision to do so would have been encouraged by a perceived improvements in Global sentiments from an improving American economy to positive actions to improve the situation in Europe.

Although consumer spending in Australia is still soft, and this being the first the RBA meeting for 2012, it appears that they will adopt a wait and see approach.

This will give the RBA time to see if the improvements in ...

The doomsayers are wrong: fundamentals for Australian property values are sound. Even in the worst-case scenario of a serious downturn in the domestic economy, there is a host of reasons that point to a soft landing for Australian real estate.

• It has held up remarkably well during a time of almost unprecedented economic uncertainty.
   
  Most of that decline has been borne by houses, off 3.9 per cent in the past 12 months with most pain concentrated in the top ...