So, you think you’ve finally found the right property – be it your next home or investment? Months of searching online, the rollercoaster of anticipation, knock-backs, and near wins – they’ve finally resulted in success. You’ve found a property that seems to tick all the right boxes. Yay! Before you get too excited and rush…
You can feel it building again, can’t you? Watch a YouTube video, listen to a podcast or scroll social media and you’ll hear the same confident line being repeated like it’s gospel: “Property moves in an 18-year cycle… and 2026 is the year it all blows up.” A surprising number of commentators are quoting it,…
Australian rents have surged almost three times faster than wages over the past five years, pushing rental affordability to record lows and stretching household budgets across the country, according to Cotality’s latest Chart Pack. Cotality’s analysis shows national rents have jumped 43.9% over the five years to September 2025, compared with a 17.5% rise in…
Australia’s housing debate has a habit of circling the wrong problems. Every quarter, the ABS hands us another set of numbers showing where the market is actually heading – and every quarter, policymakers nod politely, shuffle some papers, and carry on as if the laws of arithmetic don’t apply to them. The latest housing finance…
Sometimes we love change and sometimes we hate it. In fact, some of us love to change and others fear it. Why is change difficult for many of us? Because change makes us move out of our comfort zones. It takes courage to leave something familiar and try something new. One of the jobs of…
Every time the Olympic torch gets passed to a new city, the property cheerleaders wheel out the same playbook: values will soar, suburbs near venues will boom, investors will make a fortune. It’s an easy story to sell because it mixes infrastructure spending, global attention, and a convenient deadline. But history tells us that the story…
Every few years several commentators announced that regional Australia has finally solved its “young people problem”. Such babble was based on one cheery number: that the regions gained tens of thousands of 25-to-40-year-olds in the five years to the 2021 Census. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: that figure is more illusion than renaissance. To recap…
If you’ve been watching Australia’s property markets lately, you’d be forgiven for thinking everything comes down to interest rates. Every headline tells the same story. Rates up. Rates down. Rate cuts coming. Rate cuts delayed. Apparently, that’s all that matters. But here’s the uncomfortable truth. Interest rates don’t decide where housing demand shows up. They…
Brace yourself. New modelling by PropTrack suggests that Australia is on the cusp of a property divide, with values in many suburbs poised to double by 2030 if recent trends continue, while other locations are likely to stagnate or decline. I know this sounds dramatic, but if the research highlighted in realestate.com.au is correct, this…
A property investor is, by definition, someone who purchases property with the intention of making an income or a profit. But with less than 50% of investors sticking it out for more than 5 years and around 92% never owning more than 1 or 2 properties, there is enough evidence to indicate that being successful…
