This Month
Can an ‘upmarket boarding house’ solve Sydney’s housing problem?
Hotel Capital Partners is acquiring the former Quest Potts Point hotel and turning it into short-term rental housing to capitalise on inner-city housing shortages.
- Campbell Kwan
Elizabeth Bay luxury tower development rejected
The Rolling Stones made a surprise appearance in a judgment backing residents in a fight with developer Fortis about housing needs.
- Michael Bleby
Game changer or sellout? The election fight over the future of housing
Labor says build-to-rent changes will turbocharge apartment construction. The Coalition says it just kicks the problem along. Get ready for one of the big election battles.
- Tom McIlroy
November
- Exclusive
- International students
Impact on rent of foreign student caps is price of a coffee: report
The government says too many international students is putting pressure on the rental market. New analysis reveals student caps will push rents down – by $5 a week
- Julie Hare
October
- Opinion
- Leading Indicators
Australia has passed peak property investor
For many around the country, especially Baby Boomers, property investing is a national pastime. But if you look closely, landlord numbers are declining.
- Michael Read
‘Be careful what you wish for’ in property tax reform
Any benefit from falling house prices by curbing investor concessions may be short-lived. And there would be a price to pay, say property experts.
- Nick Lenaghan
For every $1 increase on loan repayments, rents go up 1¢: RBA
Analysing 13 years of tax returns from 2006-07 to 2018-19, the RBA found that for every $1 increase in interest repayments, investors raised rents by just 1¢.
- Michael Read
It turns out Philip Lowe was right about finding a flatmate
Higher housing costs are forcing young people to stay at home with their parents and leading households to rent out spare rooms, RBA chief economist Sarah Hunter says.
- Michael Read
Negative gearing changes would be a drag on bank stocks: analysts
Citi examined restrictions on housing investor tax settings in New Zealand, and Australia in the 1980s, and found they helped rents go up.
- James Eyers
September
Jose was priced out of his inner-city home. So were 16,000 others
KPMG data shows rising costs are squeezing out much-needed workers from Sydney and Melbourne’s most sought-after suburbs.
- Campbell Kwan
August
Union sells boss’ subsidised McMansion
The Electrical Trades Union is selling a five-bedroom McMansion that once housed its national boss while stalling housing developments across Sydney.
- Nick Bonyhady
Decline in home ownership a boon for retirement operator Eureka
The company’s new chief executive, Simon Owen, says a growing number of retirees don’t have the real estate to buy into more expensive homes.
- Michael Bleby
- Opinion
- Property market
The maths justifying rentvesting has changed. Here are the numbers
It’s a popular strategy for building wealth but how does rentvesting stack up after 13 rate rises?
- Kelly Kennedy
Build-to-rent plan risks ‘repelling investors’
Labor has been warned to redesign key elements of its plan to boost affordable rental stock around Australia.
- Tom McIlroy and Campbell Kwan
Deals in build-to-rent market ready for lift-off, says US giant
Build-to-rent housing is potentially a big contributor in efforts to plug the country’s chronic housing shortfall which has sent rents skyrocketing.
- Nick Lenaghan
San Francisco to ban rent-setting software amid gouging worry
The ban opens a new front in a long-running controversy over the role of software in setting rents as an affordability crisis worsens in many American cities.
- Rya Jetha
July
NSW’s eviction rules will trigger landlord ‘exodus’
The NSW government’s proposed ban on evicting tenants without reasonable grounds will spark landlords’ exodus and deprive the state of billions of dollars in investments in the rental sector, property investors warn.
- Nila Sweeney
NSW Premier Chris Minns dodges a fight over Palestine
The Labor leader promised new protections for renters and gig-economy workers at the party’s first conference in power in NSW after 12 years.
- Updated
- Aaron Patrick
How building codes are crunching affordability
Energy efficiency demands and stringent accessibility rules are increasing the cost of building homes by tens of thousands of dollars.
- James Hall
Tenerife waiters forced to live in tents amid tourist-driven property boom
Low-paid service workers who are vital to the tourism industry are being squeezed out of the market because of the boom in holiday rentals.
- James Badcock