The 2026 Intergenerational Report (IGR) is presented as a 40-year outlook, but reads like a defence of current policy. Housing – the major source of generational insecurity – barely appears. “Housing supply” occurs five times in 352 pages – see AI is of some use – while the report claims recent tax changes will create…
The federal government’s tax reforms are the most significant changes for housing investors Australia has seen since 1999. From July 1 2027, three things will change: negatively geared rental income losses won’t be deductible against non-investment income like wages, but will be deductible against capital gains the 50% capital gains tax (CGT) discount will be…
Capital City home auction markets produced predictably mixed results over the AFL Grand Final Week with low auction numbers in Melbourne, fewer auctions in Brisbane and Adelaide but a rise in auctions in Sydney and Canberra ahead of the NRL Grand Final. Weekly Auction Results to Saturday, September 26th 2026 Capital City This Week Last…
For most property investors, Capital Gains Tax is something they usually think about when they’re preparing to sell. But the coming changes to Australia’s CGT regime mean there is an important date investors should be thinking about well before their property ever goes on the market. From 1 July 2027, the current 50% CGT discount for…
Australia’s rental crisis has been building for years, but new figures suggest the pressure could become even worse. We already know Australia doesn’t have enough homes. Vacancy rates remain tight, rents have risen substantially and population growth continues to create new households requiring somewhere to live. Yet at precisely the time we need more rental…
Six months ago the conversation about Australian property was all about resilience, about how our markets kept climbing despite thirteen rate rises and a cost of living squeeze that refused to ease. That conversation has changed. Australia’s property downturn gathered sharp momentum in July, with Cotality’s national Home Value Index (HVI) falling 0.7% – the…
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Adelaide has recorded its third consecutive monthly decline, with values falling 0.8% in August and 1.6% across the three winter months. For a market that spent much of the past two years as one of the country’s most consistent performers, three months of continuous falls marks a definitive change in direction. The scale of what…
SQM Research released its August 2026 residential vacancy rate data together with its lat-est advertised rents data. Australia’s national residential vacancy rate held at 1.3% in August 2026, unchanged from July, with 41,039 residential vacancies recorded. Against August 2025 the picture is less static: vacan-cies are up by around 3,300 dwellings (8.7%) and the national…
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Perth has now been falling for four consecutive months. August delivered a further 0.8% decline, leaving the market 3.2% below its April peak and taking $33,370 off the median dwelling value since the turn began. For a market that spent five years as the most spectacular performer in the country, that is a strange sentence…
Australia’s current housing downturn has ended the recent run of record resale results, with the share of profitable sales falling from a 21-year high and the median gain retreating from its March peak. Cotality’s latest Pain & Gain report analysed more than 94,000 residential resales in the June quarter, finding 95.4% delivered a nominal profit,…
