Yesterday
NSW budget boosts build-to-rent housing and developer infrastructure
Treasurer Daniel Mookhey has suggested Tuesday’s NSW budget will boost housing. Here are two measures to start.
This Month
Melbourne and Sydney auction markets heat up
The Victorian capital has recorded its seventh week in a row of its preliminary clearance rate holding above 70 per cent.
This inner-west Sydney home just fetched $1.25m. It won’t happen again
As borrowing costs head lower, buyer numbers will head up – and so will competition. That’s prompting purchasers to pull out the stops now.
May
6 Rosehill alternatives that could help fix Sydney’s housing crisis
Sydney Harbour’s last working port, the site of its 2000 Olympics, a park on the Bay Run and a ghost train platform in the east are slated for more homes.
Are house prices about to take off again?
This week on The Fin podcast, economics correspondent Michael Read on why the Reserve Bank is cutting rates and what it means for people like him trying to buy a house.
$5.3m Mosman unit sold after talks as rate cut delivers patchy results
Property buyers are weighing up the benefit of lower borrowing costs versus global economic uncertainty – and reaching different answers.
Luxury developer behind Sirius rebuild overwhelmed by debts
Lenders are chasing millions from the builder behind the controversial Sydney redevelopment, where 20 apartments including the penthouse remain unsold.
Sydneysiders need $235,000 income for affordable housing: Jarden
Home buyers nationally need to earn an average of $161,000 to access an affordable home across the country according to a new report. In Sydney, it’s $235,000.
House prices hit a new high ahead of the election
House price growth is poised to gather steam next week and another interest rate cut this month, according to analysts.
April
Millennial fashionista buys $48.5m Bellevue Hill pad
She began by investing $200 in a fashion start-up with a university friend. Now, Meshki co-founder Natalie Khoei has just bought a $48.5m Bellevue Hill home.
Long settlement helps buyer spend $4.77m on home
Time is money in property and there’s a trick that upsizing buyers are playing that makes the vendor their financier.
The electorates where house prices rose (and fell) the most
One in 15 electorates jumped more than 30 per cent since May 2022, but values fell in 60 seats according to a new analysis.
Liberals want house prices to grow slower than wages
Peter Dutton declined to endorse comments from opposition housing spokesman Michael Sukkar on the campaign trail on Tuesday.
The suburbs where house prices hit records
Expectations of deeper rate cuts along with demand-boosting Labor and Coalition housing policies could spark a sharp increase in prices this year, say analysts.
3 charts that show why housing is a key battleground for PMs
Residential property values have surged almost five times as much under Coalition governments than Labor ones over the past 35 years. Here are the reasons.
Albanese offers first home buyers 5pc deposits, fuelling demand
The new policy is a dramatic expansion of the government’s first home guarantee scheme as Labor seeks to grab voters’ attention on the issue of housing.
Melbourne’s auction clearance rate hits nine-month high
The housing market seems to be defying the gloom and fear that has taken over sharemarkets in the past week, say agents and analysts.
The suburbs where house prices are rising (and falling) the most
House prices are climbing across more suburbs in Sydney and Melbourne as the recovery gathers steam.
‘Abandoned mansion’ sells for $26m, breaking suburb record
Retiring Sydney developer Oscar Gonzalez and his wife Maria have paid a suburb record of $26.1 million for an empty Hunters Hill mansion.
Home prices climb to record high
The February interest rate cut has revived confidence and boosted demand, despite only a small improvement in affordability.