Australia’s property markets are continuing to soften, and the spring selling season has done little to restore buyer confidence, with falling prices, weaker auction clearance rates and longer selling times pointing to a market where buyers are increasingly in control. To help keep you up-to-date with all that’s happening, below is my updated weekly analysis…
Every year, one of Australia’s biggest longitudinal surveys provides a range of insights on how the nation is changing. The Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, provides unique insights into the lives of Australians, and collects rich data on income, employment, health and wellbeing. HILDA has been following the same people every…
Home auction markets have returned another week of generally underwhelming results with both clearance rates and auction numbers substantially lower than those recorded over the same week last year. Weekly Auction Results to Saturday, October 24th 2026 Capital City This Week Last Week Same Week Last Year Auctions Rate Auctions Rate Auctions Rate Sydney 885…
Australia’s property market has reached a turning point, with the latest figures suggesting the downturn is becoming more widespread than many expected. For the first time in 15 years, house prices have fallen across every Australian capital city in the same quarter, according to Domain’s September 2026 House Price Report. And now some of the…
Spain is in the middle of a political reckoning over housing. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called an early election for November 29, after parliament rejected his government’s emergency housing measures amid widespread anger over rising rents and housing insecurity. In Australia, the day before the Spanish vote, Victorians will go to the polls…
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. Boy has that conversation has changed. Capital city dwelling values fell 1.1% over the past month and are now 1% lower than a…
There is no doubt that our housing markets are facing challenges from all directions, but clearly they have remained more resilient than the property pessimists had predicted. To better understand what’s happening, this monthly collection of charts from Cotality paints an interesting picture. According to Cotality, Australia’s spring property market has failed to gain its usual…
![Adelaide housing market update [video] | October 2026](https://cdn.propertyupdate.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/adelaide-270x200.jpg)
Adelaide spent most of this cycle as the market that refused to break. That ended decisively in September. Values fell 1.3%, the fourth consecutive monthly decline, and 94% of Adelaide suburbs recorded a drop over the September quarter. The speed of the turn is what stands out. Adelaide set a record high in May this…
![Perth housing market update [video] | October 2026](https://cdn.propertyupdate.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Perth-city-270x200.jpeg)
Perth presents the strangest set of numbers in the country right now. Values fell 1.2% in September, the fifth consecutive monthly decline and the fourth straight month of losses exceeding 1%. Since peaking in April, the market has shed 6%, taking roughly $62,000 off the median property value. And yet Perth is still up 10.1%…
![Brisbane housing market update [video] | October 2026](https://cdn.propertyupdate.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/brisbane-270x200.jpg)
Brisbane has done something this month that would have been unthinkable a year ago: it recorded the steepest monthly price fall of any Australian capital city. Values dropped 1.5% in September, edging past Sydney’s 1.4% decline and taking the market 5.4% below its May peak. That decline has effectively erased ten months of gains. Brisbane…
