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Mortgage-payers got a long-awaited breather today when the RBA board left the cash rate unchanged at...
The pause follows three consecutive hikes in February, March, and May 2026, brought against a backdrop of high inflation and economic uncertainty due to the Middle East c...
16-June-2026
Industry says tax changes will mean 9000 fewer homes
Proposed tax changes will result in fewer homes being built at a time when Australia desperately needs more, a peak property group said today.
15-June-2026
Property investment: Does it really make you rich?
Now, if your first thought was a greedy big fish with stockpiles of purchased addresses stashed away, selling them for ludicrous profits at the expense of a younger marke...
12-May-2026
Housing confidence holds firm in 2026
New research from property analytics firm shows property industry confidence remains high overall, even as economic risks loom larger and market conditions diverge sharpl...
29-Jan-2026
Auction activity emerges from seasonal slump
We expect to see a significant rise in auction activity this week, with 1,630 capital city homes currently scheduled for auction, up from a combined total of just 483 ove...
30-Jan-2026
Every month, Australia’s housing shortage worsens
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released housing approvals data for September, which recorded 16,360 trend approvals, a 0.9% increase from August. It was t...
06-Nov-2025
How is climate change affecting the property market?
You’ve probably seen images of homes destroyed by bushfires or flood water. What you may not realise is that all Australians are effectively paying a climate disaster pen...
06-Nov-2025
Scary prediction about the impact AI revolution could have on Australian jobs
As concern continues to build over the potential impact of AI and the rise of humanoid robotics on the labour market, it’s swiftly clear how vulnerable our society is to ...
02-Sept-2025
RBA looks all but guaranteed to cut rates next month
Rate cut outlook firms as RBA gets the 'outstanding' inflation data it was waiting for
06-Aug-2025
Why Australia's divorce rate is the lowest it's been in 50 years
At first glance, it might seem like good news. Divorces in Australia have dropped to their lowest rate since no-fault divorce was introduced. And on average, marriages ar...
28-July-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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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
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...
26-Nov-2024
Westpac: No rate cuts until May, but cycle will happen quickly
Westpac is officially predicting RBA cash rate cuts won't begin until May 2025, three months later than its previous February call.
26-Nov-2024
Australian Banks, Households Resilient to High Rates, RBA Says
(Bloomberg) -- The share of Australian borrowers in severe financial stress remains small with the vast majority still able to service their debts, the Reserve Bank said ...
30-Sept-2024
Employment changes from 1 July 2024: Minimum wage rates, unfair dismissal thresholds and more
Changes to a number of employment rates, thresholds and limits in Australia came into effect on 1 July 2024, with implications for both employees and employers. New right...
04-July-2024
What could another rate rise do to the Australian housing market?
Following last week's Consumer Price Index (CPI) data revealing a 4.4% inflation rate for May, CoreLogic's head of research Eliza Owen examined whether this could trigger...
04-July-2024
‘Bad enough now’: Property investor tax breaks soaring to $22 billion a year by 2035
The cost of negative gearing and capital gains discounts will balloon to $165 billion over the next decade, according to new data that’s sparked fresh fears for the next ...
04-July-2024
‘Breaking point’: scary number of borrowers behind on loan
Higher interest rates are beginning to bite homeowners, with a rising number reporting they have missed at least one repayment on their mortgage, new research from compar...
05-June-2024
Australians squirrel away $4.69 billions in the bank
Australians squirrelled away $4.69 billion in April, as households continued to deal with the rising cost of living.The latest Australian Prudential Regulation Authority ...
04-June-2024
City-dwellers head for regional Australia in growing numbers
The number of city-dwellers tired of expensive, overpopulated cities and deciding to move to regional Australia has hit a 12-month high, according to new data.
04-June-2024
Australia’s major supermarkets have not given some fruit and vegetable growers price rises in 15 yea...
National Farmers’ Federation council member says the food sector should not be ‘held to ransom’ by Coles and Woolworths.
08-Mar-2024
Sydney house prices force thousands of young families out of NSW - Productivity Commission
Sydney is at risk of becoming "the city with no grandchildren", a senior government official has warned, as high housing costs drive young families to leave. Sydney lost ...
16-Feb-2024
Employers push for staff to return to the office after working from home as commercial property valu...
Everything is colliding for employees, bosses and the owners of commercial properties as the "work from home" trend cements itself as a standard part of most office worke...
06-Dec-2023
Easing inflation takes heat off interest rate rises
Australia's inflation rate has softened by more than expected in a promising sign for borrowers hoping for the end of the Reserve Bank's interest rate hikes.
06-Dec-2023