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By the time many of today’s Gen Z Australians buy their first home, the map of Australia will look very different. Melbourne is on track to overtake Sydney as our largest city. Canberra is expected to become bigger than Newcastle. Geelong could overtake Wollongong, while lifestyle destinations such as the Sunshine Coast, Hervey Bay, Busselton,…
We’ve all grown up with the idea that debt is bad. Pay off your mortgage as fast as you can. Avoid credit cards like the plague. And never, ever retire with debt hanging over your head. So every time I tell people that as a property investor I love debt – especially the kind that…
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Brisbane spent two years as the market everyone pointed to when they wanted to argue the Australian housing boom still had room to run. That argument no longer holds. Home values fell 0.6% in July 2026, and revised data now confirms this was the second consecutive month of decline, following a 0.1% fall in June….
Buying your first home is a significant milestone that requires careful planning and preparation. For most people, it’s the biggest financial decision they’ll ever make. With so much at stake, it’s essential to have a good understanding of the property market and the home-buying process. Here are 9 things every first home buyer needs to…
Australia’s property markets have been given a temporary reprieve, with the Reserve Bank leaving the cash rate unchanged in August. However, borrowers and property investors should be careful about interpreting the decision as the end of the interest rate cycle. The RBA’s message was clear. Inflation remains too high, new global pressures are emerging, and…
We Australians are very good at finding fault with the cities in which we live. We complain about congestion, expensive housing, crowded trains, planning delays and infrastructure that often seems to arrive years after it is needed. Sure, many of those concerns are justified, but every so often an international comparison allows us to step…
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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…
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What if rising property values are making Australians wealthier on paper, while leaving many of us feeling less secure, more stressed and less satisfied with life? Australia is a prosperous country, and millions of homeowners have built substantial wealth through property. Yet measures of happiness have remained flat or declined, while younger Australians increasingly feel…
Australia’s property markets have entered a more challenging phase, and the latest figures confirm that the momentum of the past few years has shifted. Combined capital city dwelling values have fallen 1% over the past month, although they remain 3% higher than a year ago. However, those national figures hide a widening divide between our…
Higher interest rates and uncertainty over the Federal Government’s proposed property tax changes are clearly taking some heat out of Australia’s property market, with new mortgage lending falling sharply in the June quarter. According to the latest ABS lending indicator data the total value of new housing loans settled in the June quarter was $97.6…
