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For the better part of two years, the world has been in the grips of a once-in-a-generation crisis. But innovation is born of crises. Covid-19 has left very few parts of daily life untouched, especially when it comes to accelerated structural shifts across the workplace. A shift that played out...
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Price growth has already slowed as talks of interest rate hikes swirl, The property market's high tide could slowly be turning, agents say, as more homes hit the market, stricter stress tests on borrowing kick in, the RBA signals rate hikes earlier than expected and the end of lockdowns mean pot...
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The Burgess Rawson auction in Melbourne was almost a sell-out as over $100 million of real estate changed hands. Private investor appetite for essential services real estate, especially childcare centres, medical properties, pharmacies and fast food outlets, lifted total sales across three days ...
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Home buyers moved to Brisbane to improve their lifestyle the survey showed. Home vendors are starting to offer discounts to secure a sale, new data shows, especially in Sydney and Melbourne where signs point to the super hot market beginning to cool. But as veterans of the longest lockdowns fle...
Read MoreThe windfall gains tax is expected to create an "unjust" divide between Melbourne's new estates and those in regional areas. Victoria's development lobby has warned of housing shortages and rising land costs, especially in regional areas, after the government’s windfall gains tax passed th...
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Regional property markets are booming... but it's both good and bad news for locals. The COVID pandemic has had a significant impact on housing markets in regional Australia. It's been well documented that the ability to work remotely has given people more choice in how they live, and many have...
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Sid Lal has looked at hundreds of properties but says it's hard to find an affordable home in Sydney's hot market. (Daniel Irvine.) When Australia opens its borders to migrants, already skyrocketing house prices could rise further. While immigration is not the only factor influencing house pric...
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More homes have been listed as lockdowns end. Fear of missing out among potential property buyers is starting to ease as more homes are listed for sale this spring. But buyers hoping to pick up a bargain might have another think coming, with bullish prices still being achieved for the most sough...
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Auctioneer Josh Stirling accepts bids on a property in Mozart St, St Kilda on Sunday November 2021. The price of a typical house in Melbourne has multiplied by 22 in the past 40 years, almost three times faster than wages, with advocates warning that women were bearing the brunt of the affordabi...
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Buyers are still out in force for property. Sydney's housing boom is easing with property prices rising at their slowest rate since January as affordability concerns grow and lending tightens. CoreLogic's October home values index revealed dwelling values jumped 1.5 per cent over the month. Whi...
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Despite the RBA cash rate sitting at a record low 0.1 per cent, in the past year the 'Time to buy a dwelling index' has plummeted. For more than half a century the 'Great Australian Dream' has been owning a home on a quarter acre block and pretty much the entire list of features included in the ...
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Roger Wardy said the sellers had thought they overpaid. A Sydney couple has lucked into the real estate deal of a lifetime thanks to the insane rate at which property prices are climbing. The couple recently resold a Kensington house they bought only nine weeks ago for $600,000 more than the pr...
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Phone pic of agent to younger high end Queensland buyers and sellers Michael Bacon with fashionista Thessy Batsinilas and her husband Georgio. Young, rich Queenslanders from music celebs, to tech whizzes, sports stars and 'influencers' are working their mortgages almost as hard as their social m...
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Build-to-rent developments will be exempted from absentee owner surcharges for up to 30 years under changes unveiled by the Victorian government in an effort to bolster the burgeoning sector. It also announced that build-to-rent projects completed and operational before 2032 would be eligible fo...
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A large panorama of the city skyline of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. View from north looking south. A new fund launched by the Victorian government will chip in 25% of the deposit for residents of the state. The $500 million fund is set to help up to 3,000 residents buy a home. It follows...
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With house prices rising and the cost of debt at an all time low, investors are now taking a closer look at commercial property due to the higher returns on offer. The number of people and businesses looking to buy commercial property on realcommercial.com.au has surged over the past year, far o...
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EG Advisory managing director Shane Geha says there may not be any housing bubble to pop. Frustrated house hunters holding out for a property bubble to burst could be waiting a long time, according to an industry insider who warns there is no price balloon to pop. In fact, not only will there b...
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Property buyers looking to snap up a unit should avoid these areas, particularly in Sydney and Melbourne. Australian home buyers and investors have been warned to avoid certain suburbs in Australia, particularly in Sydney and Melbourne, which are at high risk of being oversupplied with thousands...
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APRA may impose lending restrictions to curb runaway property prices. Property investors are likely to find it harder to obtain the big mortgages often required to buy free-standing homes after regulators signalled they would likely act to tighten lending rules. The Council of Financial Regulat...
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Property taxes are slashing listings and hurting affordability, a new report claims. Australian stamp duty costs are "completely out of control" as 'bracket creep' is slashing the number of homes for sale and fuelling affordability issues, property experts claim. A new report by the Real Estate...
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House price growth: I once went to a foam party, and it seemed less bubbly than this. With prices and lending at record highs something has to give in the housing market and it could be very bad new for some Australians. See that on the horizon? That's a housing clampdown. And it's coming this ...
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Australia's booming house prices are being driven by record low interest rates and increased household savings during the pandemic, but wage growth remains very sluggish. The property frenzy is locking young people out of the market and creating economic risks. Will anything stop it? Australian...
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Lending restrictions are likely to be the best way to significantly slow the boom in prices. The madness of rising house prices cannot be allowed go on. Apart from higher prices making it harder for our kids to get into the property market, there is the broader impact on the economy. Ever bigge...
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CBA said loan applications had held up despite lockdowns. The chief executive of Australia's largest lender says financial regulators should act 'sooner rather than later' as property prices and loan commitments surge. Addressing a parliamentary economics committee, Commonwealth Bank CEO Matt C...
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Growing house prices could pose a risk to the financial system if home buyers become too over-indebted. Spiralling household debt tied to the nation's soaring property prices could pose a risk to the financial system, the Reserve Bank has cautioned as home values across capital cities continue t...
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Building tools and materials will go down across Melbourne and some regional home construction and renovation sites for two weeks. Almost $1bn in residential construction and renovations will be sidelined with the construction sector over the next two weeks, Australia's peak housing industry gro...
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More than two in five households are now in financial stress due to soaring house prices and mortgages. Mortgage stress is spiking across key suburban electorates in Sydney and Melbourne despite record low interest rates as spiralling property prices leave two in five households struggling to ma...
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A storm rolls into Cronulla beach, where Reserve Bank research shows climate change could increase the cost of property insurance. Climate change could cut property prices across a swath of Sydney's northern suburbs from Lane Cove to Ku-ring-gai, with Reserve Bank analysis showing many homeowner...
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The average new mortgage to buy an established house in WA has soared by almost $50,000 in two years amid a nationwide glut of home lending. The rapid increase has raised fears our obsession with pumping money into real estate may hurt Australia's long-term living standards. As Perth's median h...
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Australian Bureau of Statistics data showed a 6.7 per cent jump in the June quarter in its measure of house prices. The Reserve Bank has urged governments to deal with tax and social security policies to bring surging house prices under control after new figures showed the biggest jump in nation...
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Nic and Chris are trying a rent-with-option-to-buy option in their home city of Melbourne. Hands up if you're sick of being locked out of the housing market right now. If you've been paying attention, then you'll know that in the past 12 months alone prices have gone up by an eye-watering $100,...
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A multimillion-dollar budget may not go as far as you think in the top-priced suburbs. When it comes to buying a house in some of the nation’s most expensive suburbs, a multimillion-dollar budget may not stretch as far as you think. That glamorous waterfront mansion you dream of buying wh...
Read MoreMonthly mortgage repayments now chew up 42 per cent of after-tax income in Brisbane. More than half of homeowners are concerned about interest rates increasing in the near future, with 15 per cent fearing they will be unable to make their repayments. And those fears are felt most acutely by hou...
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Buyers are using savings from cancelled holidays to buy holiday homes. Australians have saved some $60 billion a year in cancelled overseas travel because of the pandemic, figures show, with part of that cash flowing into the property market. Buyers lucky enough to keep their jobs have been tak...
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Westpac senior economist Matthew Hassan said the Aussie property market is stuck in a tricky situation. Australia's housing markets are entering very tricky territory as the return of COVID-19 lockdowns yet again disrupt activity and price momentum in major markets, Westpac said. This, combined...
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Palm Beach has become a hotspot for interstate developers. A raft of Sydney and Melbourne developers are snatching up landholdings along the Gold Coast's middle and southern beaches, as demand for high-end apartments in the region grows. With 12,000 Victorians and 18,000 Sydney-siders last year...
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Developer fees are adding up to $85,000 to new house prices, with doubts they are going into essential local infrastructure. Developers are paying up to $85,000 for every housing block they put on the market, with research showing the fees are driving up property prices and in some cases aren't ...
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Average home buyers in Pittwater, in Sydney's northern beaches, now need 93 per cent of their household income to afford a mortgage, according to CoreLogic. Housing affordability has deteriorated the most across the Pittwater area in Sydney's northern beaches, with the proportion of income neede...
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House price growth is set to slow further in the months ahead as affordability worsens. The unparalleled growth in home prices over the past year is expected to slow further, with the pool of buyers not deep enough to absorb the amount of stock sellers are likely to unleash once the lockdowns en...
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Properties are being withdrawn from auction, but prices tipped to keep rising, but a slower rate. Ongoing lockdowns in Sydney and Melbourne have hit property auctions in our two biggest cities, but most experts do not expect to see an end to the prolonged boom any time soon, though price rises a...
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A multimillion-dollar budget may not go as far as you think in the top-priced suburbs. When it comes to buying a house in some of the nation's most expensive suburbs, a multimillion-dollar budget may not stretch as far as you think. That glamorous waterfront mansion you dream of buying when you...
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Melbourne's population is predicted to boom in outer suburbs. The population of Melbourne's fringe suburbs will grow by more than 900,000 people in the next 30 years, leading Victoria's independent infrastructure adviser to urge sweeping reforms to housing, transport, and energy use. Infrastruc...
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It's no secret it's getting harder to own a home, but could rentvesting hold the key to cracking the market? Rentvesting could be the answer for budding buyers struggling to break into the market, experts say. The strategy involves getting on the property ladder by buying an investment where yo...
Read MoreBuilding costs are rising at a faster rate than inflation as construction demand continues to outstrip supply for both labour and materials. Despite billions of dollars' worth of stimulus being poured into housing and construction, activity will continue to decline due to the pandemic. Global s...
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Australia's banking regulator says the state of the housing market could pose a risk to the economy. Australia's banking regulator doesn't know if the housing market looks risky but can't say whether its in a bubble. The head of the banking regulator says the current state of the housing market...
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First-home buyers are dropping back from their 2020 boom levels. First-home buyers are getting crowded out of the hot property market by stiff competition from investors, downsizers and buyers in between. The value of loans to first-time buyers dropped 7.8 per cent in the month of June, ABS fig...
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Since the start of the pandemic, a net 24,500 people have left Sydney for other parts of NSW. In total, almost 40,000 have moved out of Sydney since the pandemic started, with more than 10 per cent making the move to Brisbane.. But there are signs of change. In the first three months of this yea...
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Home owners are out-earning some of Australia's top professionals, with rapid price growth seeing house values climb by more than $1000 per day in some cities. Houses are out-earning some of Australia's top-paid professionals, with price growth in some cities outstripping the income of surgeons,...
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Peter Harvey and Kylie Storen recently traded their Fairlight house for a Manly semi to live closer to the beach. He says he was spurred on by lockdowns and the rise of working from home. Sydneysiders are paying a pretty penny for big homes near parks and beaches as home owners place more value ...
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House prices in Australia's most popular regional towns have continued their phenomenal run of growth. Regional Australia is continuing its dizzying house price growth, with a jump of 4.5 per cent this last quarter alone, and a spectacular 12.5 per cent rise over the past year, latest figures sh...
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Investor activity across Australia has soared in recent months, with the highest amount borrowed to buy investment properties since mid-2015, however, John McGrath founder and executive director of McGrath Estate Agents cautions investors not to overextend for fear of missing out. Investor activ...
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High density areas such as the Parramatta region in Western Sydney have more vacancies. How long can low interest rates last? Lockdowns, border closures and a depleted pool of international students have been bleeding landlords dry in parts of Sydney and Melbourne. With vacancies elevated and ...
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'Shoreline' at Southern Redland Bay, 43km south-east of Brisbane, will see 3000 homes housing more than 10,000 people The new development will offer 3000 new homes for up to 10,000 people 'Shoreline' will cover 243 hectares at Southern Redland Bay south of Brisbane It follows the announcement ...
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Alex Fitzgerald purchased her first investment property when she was 21 and is inspiring other young people to get into the market. Alex Fitzgerald bought her first house and land package at the age of 21. The 28-year-old purchased her fourth investment property in September 2020. Building a...
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Buying a house in Sydney and Melbourne is now tens of thousands of dollars more expensive than it was just a month ago but there are signs the strongest property boom in decades is slowing. Property prices increased 1.8 per cent nationally in April with every capital city and region recording gr...
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Ian Kingsford-Smith and Berni Joseph in front of their new apartment, near Parramatta in western Sydney. Despite house prices rising at their fastest pace in 32 years, apartments in Australia's most oversupplied cities aren't getting as much love from buyers. In some areas, unit prices have tum...
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CoreLogic says housing stock on the market for sale is extremely low, while buyer activity is high. Australian house prices have posted their sharpest monthly increase since August 2003, with analysts at CoreLogic saying the market is now entrenched in one of its strongest growth phases on recor...
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Commonwealth Bank economists expect national dwelling prices to increase 8 per cent in 2021. Economists at Australia's biggest bank think the housing market is "on the cusp of a boom", as record low mortgage rates collide with the recovery in the jobs market. Key Points : CBA forecasts house p...
Read MoreAfter the domination of first home buyers in the 2020 property market, investors are expected to make their market comeback this year. Following the introduction of the federal government's First Home Loan Deposit Scheme, the pandemic further accelerated first home buyer activity across property...
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Perth's rental market is becoming increasingly expensive as low vacancy rates bite. Australia's rental markets are becoming increasingly expensive again, as vacancy rates fall across the country. Perth tenants are now paying 12% more than they were 12 months ago, while Darwin houses cost almost...
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Australian house prices are expected to skyrocket by 16 per cent over the next two years, rising by as much as $160,000 in some capital cities. Commonwealth Bank's head of economics Gareth Aird predicted house prices will rise by 9 per cent in 2021 and 7 per cent in 2022 in an economics issues p...
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In the year to January, CoreLogic estimates that there were 459,308 properties transacted across Australia. Most of these sales were houses, rather than units. It is not unusual for house sales to make up the majority of transactions, with houses making up an average 70.2% of annual sales volume...
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The HomeBuilder grant scheme is twice as popular as anticipated and is set to cost the government an expected $2 billion. The original estimate for the scheme was $680 million for 27,000 grants when the prime minister first announced the initiative in June. The latest figures released from the ...
Read MoreAfter a crazy year, record-low borrowing costs and government efforts to stimulate the economy have set Australian housing prices up for further growth in 2021 - after every city bar Melbourne closed the year in positive territory, having already made up their losses triggered by the pandemic. A...
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House prices in regional Australia have risen at a higher annual rate than in capital cities for the first time in more than 15 years, as COVID-19 increases people's desire to live outside the big smoke. Annual data by real estate analysts CoreLogic shows dwelling values in capital cities rose 2...
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A shortage of rental accommodation, multiple applications per property and rising rents are proof that Australia's rental market is undersupplied, with predictions the country could soon see the "biggest rent increases in living memory". Propertyology head of research Simon Pressley said the pro...
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At the height of the pandemic, major banking economists sounded the alarm. They warned the coronavirus-induced recession could shave hundreds of thousands of dollars off the value of Sydney and Melbourne homes. But as the worst of the national COVID-19 restrictions passed, property prices fell o...
Read MoreAustralia headed to its first recession in over 28 years, but no drastic decline was seen in the housing market. Here's how the property market managed to handle the downturn. 2020 has seen devastation across a number of sectors, with wages down by 4.3 per cent and payroll jobs decreasing by 3.0...
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With first-home buyers and upgraders dominating the market, the quiet pick up in investor activity is going largely unnoticed. The most recent home lending data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) found that in September 2020 there was $5.3 billion in new lending to investors. While t...
Read MoreCanberra is now Australia's second most expensive property market, overtaking Melbourne. New data from property research firm CoreLogic shows Canberra now carries a median value of $672,866, overtaking Melbourne which sits at a close $672,172. Sydney remains the most expensive property market i...
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The Reserve Bank's cash rate cut to 0.1 per cent will have ripple effects for Australia's property prices, as well as mortgages and personal savings, all which move according to the national interest rate. Historically, when interest rates have been slashed, house prices tend to push upwards. T...
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The main reason for this is the incredibly cheap mortgage rates currently available The Australian housing market is a peculiar beast. You would think that in the midst of a worldwide pandemic that has seen Australia’s economy crash by 7%, and around one in five Australians either unemploy...
Read MoreFirst-home hopeful Jyi McWilliams faces fierce competition for entry-level properties, even as Melbourne's median house price falls. Melbourne house prices have fallen more than any other capital city during the COVID-19-related recession, new figures show, with experts warning there are...
Read MoreAfter staging stronger-than-expected price rises in the past three months, the rate of growth in Sydney and Melbourne markets eased as the year ended, with the amount of listings and the dint in affordability deterring price-sensitive buyers. In the lead up to CoreLogic's Home Value Index offici...
Read MoreHome values in Australia's biggest cities are on course to record up to 14 per cent growth in 2020 as low mortgage rates and easier lending standards unleash buyer demand. But analysts warn worsening housing affordability and more homes on the market could cut the bull run...
Read MoreMelbourne and Sydney house prices could return to peak levels over the next three years, economists are predicting. With a quicker-than-expected turnaround since the market slump between 2017 and 2019 in both capitals, pressure is now increasing on those looking to get into the market. &nbs...
Read MoreHouse values in Sydney and Melbourne jumped by 1.9 per cent in September as other capital city property markets struggled to gain traction on the back of the Reserve Bank's cuts in official interest rates. House values in Sydney and Melbourne jumped by 1.9 per cent in September as other capita...
Read MoreFrasers Property has purchased a 43-hectare land parcel from a private syndicate in Melbourne’s west for $27.5 million. Frasers Property has purchased a 43-hectare land parcel from a private syndicate in Melbourne’s west for $27.5 million. The land buy marks the second major Melbo...
Read MoreResidents of Melbourne's partially completed super-skyscraper Australia 108 have expressed concerns over the structural integrity of the building, claiming to have experienced loud cracking sounds among a number of other defects. Residents of Melbourne’s partially completed super-skyscra...
Read MoreMelbourne’s biggest property downturn since the 1980s appears to be at an end, with the latest figures showing a rise in both house and unit prices for the first time in 18 months. Melbourne’s biggest property downturn since the 1980s appears to be at an end, with the latest figure...
Read MoreThere’s a light at the end of the tunnel in Melbourne’s property market, which has shown positive signs in recent weeks as it shivers through wintry conditions. the fog could soon be lifting from Melbourne’s property market. Picture: Nicole Garmston There’s a lig...
Read MoreDeveloper value-add incentives like rebates and low deposit terms have had little effect on Melbourne’s land market, with lot sales for the March quarter down 59.5 per cent from 2018. Developer value-add incentives like rebates and low deposit terms have had little effect on Melbourne&rs...
Read MoreIt's now more expensive to rent a house in Hobart than Melbourne, with rents rising in the Tasmanian capital 7.1 per cent over the quarter. It’s now more expensive to rent a house in Hobart than Melbourne, with rents rising in the Tasmanian capital 7.1 per cent over the quarter. W...
Read MoreInitial site investigations for Melbourne's $50 billion Suburban Rail Loop will start in the second half of 2019 with specific station locations for the underground network yet to be finalised. Initial site investigations for Melbourne’s $50 billion Suburban Rail Loop will start in the s...
Read MoreThere was very little directly related to housing in this year’s Federal Budget, however regional Australia is the clear winner. There was very little directly related to housing in this year’s Federal Budget, however regional Australia is the clear winner. More sp...
Read MoreMigration data which was recently released by the ABS showed that as of June 2018, an estimated 17,650,130 residents of Australia were born in Australia. Migration data which was recently released by the ABS showed that as of June 2018, an estimated 17,650,130 residents of Australia were bor...
Read MoreDwelling sales were down in four of the five Queensland regions over the year to November 2018 with the Wide Bay region the only location to see an increase in home sales (2 per cent). Queensland’s rental market saw advertised rental rates rise over the year to December 2018 with the e...
Read MoreThe first CoreLogic Quarterly Rental Review for 2019, which tracks median rents and rental yields across Australia, shows that national weekly rents have risen by 1 per cent during the first three months of the year. “This seasonally strong first quarter has delivered the highest incre...
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Read MoreSydney house prices will fall 5.1 per cent this year, and then tread water in 2019 with only a 0.6 per cent gain, according to forecasts by Moody’s Analytics and Corelogic. However, the correction in NSW won’t be uniform with more affordable areas like the Central Coast &nd...
Read MoreMASSIVE $50bn pledge to connect all of Melbourne’s rail lines with an underground loop hasn’t been inspected by Victoria’s independent infrastructure body. The unfunded plan would take decades to build. A PROPOSED underground train network for Melbourne would carry passenge...
Read MoreConstruction of the long-awaited Melbourne airport rail link could start within four years after the Victorian Labor government promised to match a $5 billion funding pledge commitment from the federal government. Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews promised his government would invest if Labo...
Read MoreImpeded by an uninviting property tax landscape, the build-to-rent sector has been stagnant in Australia despite the increasing viability of the model as home ownership rates continue to plunge. More than 40 per cent of Australians now rent by choice and the proportion of households in the renta...
Read MoreMelbourne airport will soon be home to Australia’s largest state-of-the-art medical marijuana facility after signing a deal with ASX-listed medicinal cannabis grower Cann Group. Cann signed a heads of agreement on Wednesday for the lease of a five-hectare site in the Melbourne Ai...
Read MoreMelbourne’s apartment market has not been immune to commentary about oversupply, however a new report suggests that current supply is balancing out demand in the inner-city apartment market with median prices growing steadily in the past six months. The report from researchers Secret ...
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