Today
Sydney’s Airbnb listings drop by 48pc while regions boom
Holiday listings are growing in regions with popular tourist attractions, as a new housing report calls for more regulation to protect local renters.
Yesterday
The $460,000 sale that screams danger for listings portals
An agent has sold 42 of his 106 properties this year by social media, avoiding realestate.com.au and Domain. He reckons his vendors saved a collective $350,000.
This Month
House price growth flatlines as buyers hold back
Less than two thirds of homes listed for auction last week sold – the lowest rate in a year. Adding to the seasonal slowdown are buyers’ fears about interest rates.
Delays force affordable housing providers to give up projects
The admission by the Housing Australia boss of problems makes clear a lot of change is still needed to realise the promised 40,000 social and affordable homes.
Killing classifieds: Is AI coming for online property giants like REA?
The fear that AI will threaten the monopolies of the online property platforms has destroyed billions of dollars in a matter of weeks.
Mosman mansion sells for $40m amid flurry of last-minute trophy deals
While most of us are stressing about which Christmas gifts to buy, select Sydney buyers are choosing to spend big on luxury homes.
‘YIMBY is a misnomer. They haven’t got backyards’
Love thy neighbour as thyself. Unless they’re on the other side of a contested development application.
Billionaire Rinehart loses bid for helipad at pink-themed HQ
Perth’s city council has blocked plans to install a private helipad at the billionaire’s five-storey corporate headquarters.
First home buyers can afford only 12pc of properties
The number of suburbs affordable to first home buyers has diminished considerably, but Australians aren’t giving up on the home ownership dream.
How developers are dodging Queensland’s skills shortage
A perfect storm of housing, infrastructure and Olympics construction demand is prompting projects to look beyond the Sunshine State’s borders for help.
The $1.35m ‘bargain’ opportunity for first home buyers that won’t last
The expanded 5 per cent home deposit scheme is driving new entrants into the market, but it has yet to reach full speed. That is giving an edge to some.
Auction clearances hit 12-month low as hopes fade for rate relief
Buyers are sitting on the fence as cost-of-living pressures bite, and sticky inflation skittles hopes for a rate cut any time soon.
Byron Bay primed for $16m penthouse record as luxury demand grows
A pricey apartment overlooking the beach is part of a new development in the NSW coastal town, the first beachfront unit block in a decade.
Inside the $312m of trophy homes that Chemist Warehouse execs now own
Pharmacists linked with the newly listed company have been punching above their weight when it comes to prestige property purchases in 2025.
Builders, consumers get insurance overhaul after Porter Davis collapse
The need for a new domestic building cover scheme was laid bare by a damning report by Victoria’s Ombudsman over a string of failures after the 2023 insolvency.
Fred Schebesta told to stop the parties at Coogee mansion
Randwick City Council may be trying to slow down the eastern suburbs crypto king, but locals are sceptical he will care.
Signatures called into question in Waislitz sibling-linked feud
Expert analysis questions documents used to transfer shares from Venus Behbahani to her sister, Alex Waislitz’s fiancee, Rebekah Behbahani
Paved with gold: Australia’s most expensive streets revealed
New data shows Bellevue Hill in Sydney’s inner east is home to some of the most expensive streets in the country. Melbourne has just one in the top 10.
ASX-listed building company boss sells $12m Melbourne home
The Malvern East family home of Simonds Group executive chairman Rhett Simonds and his wife, Samantha, is in new hands after just three weeks on the market.
Toorak clocks two $21m sales as crime fears drive penthouse deals
Two under-construction penthouses have sold in Melbourne’s most expensive suburb, as buyers place a premium on home security.
First home buyer deposit scheme blows out mortgage pre-approval times
CBA is putting on extra staff at weekends to cope with an influx of pre-approval applications driven by Labor’s 5 per cent guarantee scheme.
Sydney’s affordability crisis pushes buyers west of the ‘Red Rooster line’
A grim picture emerges from analysis of where a couple on average incomes can affordably buy a house. Economists say entrenched NIMBYism is one cause.
Brisbane’s median house price tops $1m
The Queensland capital has joined houses in Sydney and Canberra in the seven-digit club. Higher prices are driving housing investment, but not enough, economists say.
$30m Whale Beach ‘weekender’ with personal golf course hits the market
The Lowes clothing co-owner and her dentist entrepreneur husband are selling their Whale Beach clifftop as attention shifts to their European castle.
Retired surgeon offloads Point Piper beachfront for $37m
A resort-style sits on Seven Shillings Beach, where neighbours include tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes and Caledonia’s CIO Will Vicars.