Hope Coumbe

Finance Editor

About Hope

Hope Coumbe is REA Group’s Finance Editor and has been a financial journalist since 2016. Hope is experienced in creating both written and digital content, having reported extensively throughout her career on financial services regulation, retail investment, and the financial advice market. She draws on her long tenure as a multi-award winning trade journalist in the UK to craft insightful, technical and thought-provoking content. Hope holds a Master of Law, Media and Journalism from the University of New South Wales and a Bachelor of Arts (Politics & International Relations) from the University of Sydney. Hope is passionate about connecting prospective and experienced buyers and sellers to the information they need to make their home financing journey both informed and enjoyable.

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Articles by Hope Coumbe

Treasurer Chalmers agrees to push banks to respond to mortgage stress

How interest rate cuts will be the ‘turning point’ for prospective buyers

What does a Trump government mean for Aussie mortgage holders?

Interest rates held at 4.35% as RBA treads cautiously towards Christmas

Interest rate stoush: What can we expect from the RBA next week?

Inflation tumbles to a 3.5-year low; Reserve Bank likely to hold firm on interest rates

Negative gearing woes spike as treasurer brushes off Labor interest

Victoria’s temporary off-the-plan duty concession: Labor’s stamp duty overhaul

Best Aussie suburbs for home buyers, right now

Why are interest rates not going down in Australia?

Buyers defying interest rates as home loan lending value reaches highest level since 2022

February rate cuts: Big bank predictions aligning as inflation cools

First-home buyer? The states where you can save a deposit the quickest

Where now for interest rates? Inflation rate drops to lowest level since 2021 and into RBA target zone

RBA keeps interest rates steady as banks signal cuts will have to wait

The secret weapon helping buyers beat interest rate turmoil

First-home buyers face a further two-month wait for Help to Buy after coalition opposition

Why Victoria is the state of choice for first-home buyers

Where to now? What the RBA governor’s shock warning means for interest rates

First-home buyers securing more than a third of loans

First-home buyers in Victoria secure highest amount of loans

Why we won’t see an RBA rate cut this year

Economy ‘on life support’ as inflation, high interest rates bite

Insurance protection for Tasmanian home builders inches closer