Articles by Tim Lawless

Adelaide’s July decline was small — home values dipped just 0.2%, following a 0.3% fall in June. Two consecutive monthly declines totalling half a percent hardly constitutes a crisis. But the number that genuinely matters in Adelaide right now is not about prices at all. It is about how many properties are available to buy….

Perth was the only major capital city to record a positive result in July, with home values rising 0.1% over the month. On paper, that makes it the last market standing. In practice, the number tells a considerably more complicated story — because the June figure it followed was revised down to a 0.5% fall,…

Sydney has now been falling for six straight months, and July delivered the sharpest instalment yet. Home values dropped 1.4% over the month, extending a decline that has run continuously since the market peaked in January. The cumulative loss now stands at 5.3% — roughly $69,000 stripped from the median dwelling value in just over…

Melbourne has now recorded eight consecutive months of falling home values, and the July figure — a 1.2% decline — brings the total loss since the November 2025 cyclical peak to 5.1%. In dollar terms, that represents approximately $46,000 removed from the median dwelling value in eight months. But the more revealing number is a…

The Australian housing downturn has stopped being a two-city story. Cotality’s Home Value Index recorded a 0.7% national decline in July 2026 — the largest monthly fall since December 2022 — and for the first time in this cycle, the weakness has reached almost every corner of the country. Brisbane fell 0.6%. Adelaide slipped 0.2%….