SYDNEY: Australian home prices hit new records while building approvals jumped the most in seven months, latest data showed, even as regulators launched new measures to cool the red-hot property market.
Australia’s corporate watchdog said yesterday it was introducing a new round of industry surveillance to ensure banks and brokers were not recommending overly expensive interest-only loans to customers.
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