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Melbourne’s housing market recorded a 0.2% decline in March, marking the fourth consecutive month of falling dwelling values. This persistent weakness has resulted in a cumulative decline of 0.9% since November 2025. The downturn is primarily concentrated in the detached housing sector, while units have shown a relatively milder contraction during this period. The market…
The national housing market recorded a 0.7% rise in March, taking the quarterly growth to 2.1%. While values continue to trend higher, the pace of appreciation is gradually losing steam compared to the 2.8% lift seen in the final quarter of last year. This national average, however, masks a significant and growing divergence between the…
One thing I’ve noticed speaking with many property investors is… While on the one hand, a small group has done very well over the last few years, initially spurred on by the recent once-in-a-generation property boom in 2020 – 21 and then by the strong housing markets of 2023-25 and this was despite the property…
It’s not often we see a statistic that tells such a clear story about wealth creation. But right now Australia’s property market is doing exactly that – quietly delivering record profits to homeowners across the country and reshaping the financial landscape in the process. For the first time in 15 years, over 90% of house…
Prices are up again. Headlines scream “new record highs.” Homeowners quietly smile. Renters quietly seethe. And somewhere in the background, a much bigger question gets ignored: As a nation, how expensive do we actually want housing to be? This is the uncomfortable conundrum that leading demographer Simon Kuestenmacher, my co-host of the Demographics Decoded podcast,…
Why is it that some property investors seem to make steady progress year after year, calmly building substantial portfolios and growing their wealth, while others stay stuck in place despite reading the same books, attending the same webinars and listening to the same podcasts? And why do two people with similar incomes, similar opportunities and…
Australia loves a big housing target. A million homes here, 1.2 million there – bold numbers splashed across press releases and podium backdrops. But the latest BuildSkills Housing Workforce Capacity Study makes one thing painfully clear: We don’t have the people to build the homes we keep promising. And nowhere is that shortage sharper than in regional…
One of the great advantages of property investing and something most Australians still don’t fully understand is that you don’t have to sell a property to access its growth. In fact, if you do this right, you may never need to sell. Instead, you can “leapfrog” from one property to the next, using accumulated equity…
For decades, Australia’s housing debate has obsessed over the usual headline acts: soaring migration, slow approvals, rising costs, NIMBYism, and a construction sector that can’t catch a break. All true. All important. But beneath all that noise sits one of the quietest, most powerful forces reshaping housing demand – the surge in single-person households. Living…
The numbers look seductive. Higher yields. Longer leases. Tenants who pay the outgoings. So it’s no surprise many residential investors start wondering whether commercial property is the “next logical step” in their investing journey. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: commercial property is not just residential property on a bigger scale. It’s a fundamentally different asset…
