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New data from REA Group’s PropTrack shows that conditions for tenants eased only slightly in April, with the firm’s national rental property vacancy rate measure...
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New data from REA Group’s PropTrack shows that conditions for tenants...
May 17, 2024 4 min read
As I predicted, the Albanese Labor government has put housing front...
May 15, 2024 4 min read
The Albanese Labor government will put housing front and centre in...
May 13, 2024 4 min read
An interesting experiment is playing out involving property owners...
May 10, 2024 4 min read
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) decided at its recent May board...
May 9, 2024 4 min read
A major report to the Federal government has confirmed there will be...
May 8, 2024 4 min read
The Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has decided to keep...
May 7, 2024 4 min read
New figures show the median weekly rent in Australia has hit a new...
May 6, 2024 3 min read
Just days after Treasurer Jim Chalmers again ruled out changes to...
May 6, 2024 6 min read
Two sets of figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics...
May 3, 2024 4 min read
Two new reports from leading data analytics firms show property...
May 1, 2024 5 min read
It’s now official.
April 30, 2024 9 min read
Last week’s quarterly inflation figures were grim reading for...
April 29, 2024 5 min read
Quarterly inflation numbers, released by the Australian Bureau of...
April 24, 2024 4 min read
New data from Domain Group shows Australian home prices have hit...
April 24, 2024 5 min read
There’s an old joke: What happens when you put ten economists in a...
April 23, 2024 3 min read
REA Group’s data business, PropTrack, has identified the regions of...
April 22, 2024 4 min read
Housing affordability in Australia has deteriorated for buyers and is...
April 19, 2024 6 min read
Over the last month or so, there’s been a noticeable shift in the...
April 18, 2024 6 min read
Two property analytics firms have both recorded new median rental...
April 16, 2024 4 min read
Worsening housing affordability, chronic supply shortage, and rising...
April 15, 2024 5 min read
New data from Australia’s largest bank has smashed several popular...
April 12, 2024 4 min read
Three new data sets provide evidence that some of the enormous...
April 11, 2024 4 min read
Australia’s rental housing market remains tight, and there’s unlikely...
April 10, 2024 3 min read
Australian residential property prices - already growing strongly...
April 9, 2024 4 min read
The Albanese government’s aim of building 1.2 million more...
April 5, 2024 3 min read
One of Australia’s most experienced real estate professionals says...
April 5, 2024 4 min read
New figures from CoreLogic show Australia’s residential property...
April 3, 2024 3 min read
Every house and unit seller in more than 300 local government areas...
April 2, 2024 4 min read
The next federal election - due at the latest by the end of September...
April 1, 2024 5 min read
Governments have been warned they’ll need to find 90,000 extra...
March 29, 2024 4 min read
Australians with a mortgage can breathe a bit easier today, following...
March 27, 2024 4 min read
There’s no question Australia is in the grip of a housing crisis, ...
March 26, 2024 5 min read
Hopes for interest rate relief any time soon for households...
March 25, 2024 4 min read
There’s no doubt that Perth has been one of the stand-out performers...
March 20, 2024 4 min read
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has decided to leave the cash...
March 19, 2024 4 min read
Many potential buyers find themselves ready to step onto the property...
March 18, 2024 5 min read
More than a quarter of all homes sold across NSW, Victoria, and...
March 15, 2024 4 min read
It’s now been four years since the WHO declared COVID-19 a worldwide...
March 14, 2024 5 min read
These days you can buy all sorts of analytical tools, computer...
March 13, 2024 3 min read
Australians are ignoring a lot of the negative economic news that’s...
March 12, 2024 3 min read
The Australian Greens have unveiled a new policy to address...
March 8, 2024 4 min read
One of Australia’s most astute property observers is predicting many...
March 6, 2024 4 min read
The outgoing chief of one of Australia’s big four banks has taken a...
March 5, 2024 3 min read
Australia’s sixth largest bank is predicting that Melbourne house...
March 4, 2024 4 min read
Australian home prices rose in February, according to new figures...
March 1, 2024 4 min read
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is likely to keep the cash rate...
February 28, 2024 4 min read
Housing values in regional areas of Australia are growing faster than...
February 27, 2024 4 min read
The spotlight has been on ANZ Bank lately following the controversial...
February 27, 2024 4 min read
There’s no question that Australia is one of the most expensive...
February 23, 2024 4 min read
We’ve heard a lot lately about the growing wealth divide between...
February 22, 2024 4 min read
Since late last year, most banks, economists and the financial...
February 20, 2024 5 min read
Bernard Salt is one of Australia’s best-known social demographers.
February 19, 2024 6 min read
There’s no debate that housing in Sydney is expensive, and not just...
February 17, 2024 4 min read
Australia’s housing market started the year on a stronger footing...
February 16, 2024 5 min read
You might have seen a lot of commentary around last year about how...
February 14, 2024 4 min read
He may have lost two Federal elections, but former Labor leader Bill...
February 13, 2024 5 min read
Australia’s state and territory governments are having a...
February 12, 2024 5 min read
The main reaction to the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) board’s...
February 9, 2024 6 min read
As widely expected, the board of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA)...
February 6, 2024 8 min read
New figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) show the...
February 5, 2024 5 min read
The housing price upswing that saw prices surge by 8.1% in 2023 has...
February 2, 2024 4 min read
REA Group’s PropTrack says the supply of properties available for...
February 1, 2024 4 min read
Inflation fell faster in the December quarter of 2023 than...
January 31, 2024 5 min read
Australia’s housing market has recovered from the downturn that saw...
January 26, 2024 5 min read
After months of speculation, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese finally...
January 25, 2024 4 min read
New figures have underlined the extent of Australia’s extremely tight...
January 24, 2024 4 min read
40 major social service and community housing groups recently came...
January 22, 2024 4 min read
While most observers obsess over house price movements in Sydney,...
January 20, 2024 4 min read
Times have been tough lately for many Australian households -...
January 19, 2024 4 min read
At Australian Property Update, we report on the trends and factors...
January 17, 2024 5 min read
Data from two of the biggest property research houses - Domain and...
January 15, 2024 3 min read
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) will almost certainly keep...
January 11, 2024 4 min read
Western Australia has thrown struggling builders a lifeline, offering...
January 10, 2024 3 min read
The Prime Minister has put Australian local councils on notice to...
January 9, 2024 3 min read
Recently, one of my friends drove from Melbourne to Sydney and back...
January 8, 2024 3 min read
Australian homeowners struggling with high mortgage repayments can...
January 7, 2024 4 min read
It’s part of the Great Australian Dream - putting down a deposit on...
January 6, 2024 4 min read
For many years, one-bedroom units have been shunned by the investing...
January 5, 2024 4 min read
Australian home prices rose an impressive 8.1% during 2023, according...
January 5, 2024 4 min read
One of Australia’s shrewdest property watchers, John Lindeman, has...
January 4, 2024 5 min read
Making predictions about what life will be like in the future is not...
January 3, 2024 4 min read
In August 2023, the Prime Minister secured an important national...
January 2, 2024 5 min read
With all the major forecasters now having revealed their thoughts for...
January 1, 2024 6 min read
As I write this, we’re near the end of 2023.
December 31, 2023 4 min read
Just over a quarter of a century ago, Australia fell in love with the...
December 30, 2023 4 min read
As house prices increase, it becomes more and more difficult to save...
December 29, 2023 3 min read
Australians have been obsessed with real estate.
December 28, 2023 3 min read
2023 was an unusual year for residential property.
December 27, 2023 4 min read
The topic of inflation has recently consumed headlines across the...
December 25, 2023 4 min read
Investing in property is often seen as the domain of the wealthy.
December 24, 2023 3 min read
A few of the most common questions asked by property investors - “Why...
December 23, 2023 4 min read
Home loans are often the greatest expense in a household, especially...
December 21, 2023 4 min read
With just days to go before the end of the year, most of the major...
December 20, 2023 4 min read
Australian residential property has had an extraordinary 2023, with...
December 19, 2023 4 min read
One of the main barriers to homeownership for young and lower-income...
December 18, 2023 4 min read
If you are considering investing in Australian residential property,...
December 17, 2023 4 min read
There are many ways of measuring and comparing growth when it comes...
December 16, 2023 4 min read
Do ghosts actually qualify as tenants?
December 15, 2023 3 min read
One of Australia’s leading property experts says Melbourne now...
December 14, 2023 4 min read
The Federal government has announced a sweeping overhaul of migration...
December 13, 2023 4 min read
The scale of the current housing crisis in Australia has been...
December 12, 2023 3 min read
Canberra has taken the title of the second most affordable capital...
December 11, 2023 3 min read
The Golden Slipper - the world's richest race for two-year-old...
December 10, 2023 4 min read
Many Australians would argue that 2023 has been a pretty gloomy year.
December 9, 2023 4 min read
The Reserve Bank of Australia’s decision to keep the cash rate on...
December 8, 2023 4 min read
Building approvals for the 12 months to October plunged to a decade...
December 7, 2023 4 min read
The Reserve Bank has delivered a Christmas respite for Australians...
December 6, 2023 3 min read
New figures show some of the heat has come out of the housing market,...
December 5, 2023 4 min read
One of the more bizarre aspects of the hype surrounding the departure...
December 4, 2023 6 min read
If you’ve been keeping up with the news lately, you might have come...
December 3, 2023 6 min read
Alan Kohler is one of Australia’s finest financial and business...
December 2, 2023 6 min read
If you have been paying close attention to property news recently,...
December 1, 2023 6 min read
Could the release of monthly inflation data from the Australian...
November 30, 2023 4 min read
People often ask me why I am so optimistic about the outlook for...
November 29, 2023 4 min read
Immigration has always been at the heart of our nation’s growth.
November 28, 2023 3 min read
Some people insist you should only invest in capital cities. Others...
November 27, 2023 3 min read
One of the big drivers of housing demand is access to finance.
November 26, 2023 4 min read
Do you get annoyed when people say, “I told you so!”
November 25, 2023 4 min read
We’re not called the Lucky Country for nothing. A stable economy, a...
November 24, 2023 3 min read
When you have:
November 23, 2023 3 min read
In theory, house prices shouldn’t be going up.
November 22, 2023 4 min read
Australians have long held an obsession with property, as a means to...
November 21, 2023 4 min read
There’s no doubt about it.
November 17, 2023 4 min read
Australia is facing a worsening housing crisis, with house prices...
November 16, 2023 5 min read
Barely a day goes by without a heartbreaking story of a young couple...
November 15, 2023 5 min read
With so much attention focused on the blue chip cities of Sydney,...
November 14, 2023 3 min read
Australia's housing crisis is intensifying, and renters are feeling...
November 13, 2023 3 min read
The Australian property market is witnessing a significant shift...
November 12, 2023 3 min read
What if you had advanced knowledge of a certain market segment which...
November 11, 2023 3 min read
Have you ever considered moving to Brisbane?
November 10, 2023 2 min read
Conventional wisdom says you invest in the land component.
November 9, 2023 3 min read
Going back 6 months, even 3 months, I’d have rated the chances of a...
November 8, 2023 2 min read
Forget capital growth.
November 7, 2023 3 min read
New loan commitments for investment loans increased 2 percent...
November 6, 2023 4 min read
October saw house prices notch a 9th consecutive month of growth,...
November 3, 2023 5 min read
In August this year, the National Cabinet agreed to build 1.2 million...
November 2, 2023 6 min read
One of the most important investment decisions most people make is...
November 1, 2023 9 min read
The housing crisis is still out of control. And looking at our sea of...
October 31, 2023 3 min read
New developments in Australia's Consumer Price Index (CPI)...
October 30, 2023 5 min read
Construction costs might be easing off a bit, but they're still...
October 27, 2023 3 min read
One thing that's absolutely certain is that property has stood the...
October 26, 2023 4 min read
The Labor government’s Housing Australia Future Fund Bill has finally...
September 29, 2023 4 min read
The combined value of Australia’s residential property market has hit...
September 28, 2023 3 min read
A parliamentary inquiry into Victoria’s land transfer duty fees has...
September 27, 2023 3 min read
The Reserve Bank has again opted to keep the cash rate on hold at 4.1...
September 26, 2023 3 min read
House prices in August experienced further increases, with...
September 25, 2023 3 min read
NSW treasurer, Daniel Mookhey, handed down Labor’s first state budget...
September 25, 2023 3 min read
It’s already an issue high on the national agenda - the skills...
September 23, 2023 4 min read
CoreLogic released their Property Market Indicator Summary last week,...
September 23, 2023 3 min read
Data from a collaboration between Commonwealth Bank and the NHFIC has...
September 22, 2023 3 min read
Just last week, the Albanese government announced an ambitious target...
September 21, 2023 3 min read
Spring is upon us which means we’ve entered the season for selling,...
September 1, 2023 4 min read
Speaking at the 49th national conference of the Australian Labor...
August 23, 2023 3 min read
Australia’s housing shortage was the main agenda of yesterday’s...
August 23, 2023 3 min read
The Property Council’s CEO, Cath Evans, appeared on ABC News this...
August 23, 2023 2 min read
CoreLogic released their monthly housing chart pack this week and...
August 22, 2023 3 min read
So you’ve taken the leap of faith and finally bought your first...
August 22, 2023 4 min read
Just last year, gloomy headlines swirled about the ‘fixed-rate’ cliff...
August 22, 2023 4 min read
The Queensland government released the draft SEQ regional plan...
August 18, 2023 4 min read
Australian mortgage holders have been at the mercy of 12 consecutive...
August 11, 2023 5 min read
Westpac has this week released an updated forecast for Australian...
August 10, 2023 5 min read
Rising house prices and improved consumer sentiment have triggered ...
July 23, 2023 4 min read
The latest data from the Treasury’s Foreign Investment quarterly...
July 19, 2023 3 min read
An Australian think tank, the Institute of Public Affairs, has...
July 18, 2023 5 min read
Congratulations to Michele Bullock on her appointment as the next...
July 17, 2023 7 min read
Phillip Lowe addressed the Economic Society of Australia in Brisbane...
July 14, 2023 3 min read
Data released byStatistarevealed that Australia has concerningly...
July 12, 2023 6 min read
CoreLogic released theirquarterly rental reviewthis week, showing...
July 7, 2023 3 min read
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