Yesterday
Home loan demand rises as buyers ready for rate cut
Hopeful home buyers are preparing for lower interest rates as early as next week by arranging financing in larger numbers.
- Nila Sweeney
This Month
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
The next rate cut has already hit the housing market
REA boss Owen Wilson is retiring with it in a dominant position over rival Domain, and the property market in a near-perfect state of balance for the classifieds giant.
- James Thomson
Landlords pull out of Melbourne, Sydney apartment markets
Poor capital growth and falling rents trigger another wave of investor selling across Melbourne and Sydney apartment markets.
- Nila Sweeney
Home sellers ditch auctions as confidence falls
Fewer vendors are selling their properties under the hammer as weak selling conditions persist, experts say.
- Nila Sweeney
Slowing Perth, Brisbane housing markets boost affordability hopes
An improvement in housing affordability could drive demand back into the market, but is unlikely to spark a sharp rebound in prices, experts say.
- Nila Sweeney
January
Second wind for regional housing markets as exodus resumes
High costs of living and soaring house prices are fuelling another wave of regional migration, experts say.
- Nila Sweeney
What interest rate cuts will mean for your money
February is firming as the month that the Reserve Bank will cut the cash rate, which will have flow-on effects for shares, property and term deposits.
- Michelle Bowes
Sydney’s housing downturn could end before election
The downturn in Sydney could end within months as interest rates drop, while Melbourne’s housing market is on track to recover earlier than expected.
- Nila Sweeney
Sydney, Melbourne to lead house price gains next year: KPMG
By December next year, Sydney is tipped to reclaim its top spot, with house prices expected to jump 7.8 per cent, followed by Melbourne’s 6 per cent gain.
- Nila Sweeney
The next capital city at risk of house prices falling
Weaker demand and substantial increase in available stock for sale could push prices lower in this city before rates fall, experts say.
- Nila Sweeney
How this Millennial plans to get wealthy even as a ‘forever renter’
What if the great Australian dream could be rewritten to exclude home ownership? Young people like Rosie Wilson are giving it a red hot go.
- Lucy Dean
Home lot sales are increasing – in the cheaper cities
Soaring land prices are prompting a structural shift in housing away from the country’s largest cities.
- Updated
- Michael Bleby
Home listings pile up in Sydney and Melbourne amid falling prices
The build up of stock levels was partly fuelled by properties that failed to sell late last year as well as a potential rise in motivated sellers.
- Nila Sweeney
Private empire behind property developer Bob Ell suffers profit slide
Leda Holdings has reported a near-halving in annual profit due to a higher cost of sales, according to newly filed accounts.
- Jenny Wiggins
The suburbs where renters saved $800 in three months
A sharp decline in asking rents has turned a string of inner Sydney and Melbourne suburbs into tenants’ markets.
- Nila Sweeney
The suburbs where home buyers want a tennis court above all else
Property searches for homes with tennis courts climbed sharply last year, but they are harder to find.
- Nila Sweeney
- Exclusive
- Luxury property
Music pioneer smashes Bangalow record with $15m luxury farm purchase
Industry entrepreneur Tom Misner has returned to the Byron Bay hinterland picking up the sprawling 12-hectare retreat, Rockpool Farm.
- Updated
- Bonnie Campbell
Sydney’s six-year high in listings points to weak autumn market
The tide has changed for choice and buyers in the country’s largest city have the upper hand – at least, until rates fall.
- Michael Bleby
Goyder could break the shackles by returning government handouts
Readers’ letters on business welfare dependence, China’s claims to Taiwan, the gift of giving, property prices, Arctic mining, and Donald Trump.
Why housing economists got it wrong on Perth, Melbourne prices
Some of the country’s top economists missed the boom in Perth house prices in 2024, and almost no one expected Melbourne values to fall.
- Larry Schlesinger