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What the 2025 Rich List reveals about how our wealthiest made their fortunes
This year’s AFR Rich List 200 once again reveals some eye-watering figures and surprising insights. While the list itself is interesting, what is more interesting to me is how these Australians made t...
18-June-2025

Australia is in a cost-of-living nightmare: How di...

In recent years, Australians experienced a sharp decline in living standards. Households suffered steep rises in the cost of essentials like fruit, br...

Read more 09-May-2025

You Won’t Believe How Long It Really Takes Propert...

Have you wondered how many years it takes for house prices to double...You will often hear it said that property values double every 7 to 10 years

Read more 24-Mar-2025

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Rate cut windfall: Aus big bank’s shock new forecast

A bombshell forecast by one of Australia’s biggest banks could put thousands more back in struggling homeowners’ pockets than expected amid an unprecedented rate cut war.

Read more 12-June-2025

Millions warned as ASIC cracks down on 18 Aussie finance influencers: 'Real harm'

ASIC has issued more than a dozen warning notices to content creators suspected of giving out dodgy financial advice.

Read more 18-June-2025

Australia’s property shift: Units now outperforming houses

A major new report from Hotspotting and Nuestar has flipped Australia’s long-held property logic, revealing unit prices are now rising faster than house prices in the maj...

Read more 18-June-2025

Another ‘extend and pretend’ mortgage arrives in Australia

A recent Finder survey found that nearly one-third of Australian consumers would consider a 40-year mortgage if it reduced their monthly repayments to a more manageable l...

Read more 09-May-2025

Lightning speed: How home prices have boomed in the past five years

A tumultuous five years created conditions for the most rapid property-price growth in history, but the enduring economic fallout of the pandemic has led to a big diverge...

Read more 20-Mar-2025

More builders likely to fail in absence of any construction silver bullet

In the first seven months of this financial year, 1,999 construction firms were declared insolvent. This was 26 per cent higher than the same period in 2023-24 (1,583) an...

Read more 24-Feb-2025

Migration balloons by 80,000 above expectations, adding to housing pressures

Australia's migrant population will rise above the government's expectations by 80,000 people over this financial year, adding to pressure on Australia's housing and rent...

Read more 20-Dec-2024

Top 10 design trends in the Gold Coast apartment market

The Gold Coast has one of Australia’s most vibrant apartment markets with no signs of a slow down.  In fact, apartments have surged almost $100,000 this year

Read more 19-Dec-2024

Apartment demand on the rise as housing affordability slips further

Rising home and rent values continued to impact the Australian housing market in 2024.  Further erosion in housing affordability has seen an increase in demand for u...

Read more 26-Nov-2024