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Units are set to outperform houses for price growth in 2025, according to REIWA’s property market quarterly update.

The Perth suburbs where property prices have skyrocketed in 2025

The median sale price growth in the unit market has historically been lower than for houses. But in the past 12 months, that has changed.

  • Holly Thompson

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Perth’s rising property prices show no signs of slowing down.

Perth has become the nation’s second-most expensive capital to rent in. Here’s why

According to the latest Domain Rent Report, only Sydney rentals cost more than those listed in Perth as of June.

  • Holly Thompson
Interest rates are expected to drop, affecting arrears rates.

The suburbs where home owners can’t afford their mortgages now

Five years ago, the types of neighbourhoods struggling to keep up with repayments looked very different.

  • Alice Uribe
Perth real estate director Louisianna Giumelli received a text message no property manager wants to see: a tenant saying goodbye and that he was ending his life.

‘People are suffocating’: Property manager’s harrowing text lays bare WA’s housing crisis

Louisianna Giumelli was driving to court to carry out a tenant eviction when she received a text message that has pushed her to speak out WA’s housing crisis.

  • Holly Thompson
Demand has swelled at the same time as a construction slowdown has hit WA’s housing industry.

WA ‘not doing enough’ to fix worsening housing crisis

Experts have urged the state and federal government to act urgently, after a new report revealed the state of WA’s housing market was worse than ever.

  • Holly Thompson
Trade shortages were causing issues for home builders and developers.

The type of housing cost that just soared 75 per cent in five years

Economists warn it could take considerable time before costs fall enough to improve affordability for average home buyers.

  • Melissa Heagney-Bayliss
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The property market is turning around.

Property market records one of the quickest downturns ever

It compares to the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the impact of a 2015 ruling that put limits on investor finance.

  • Melissa Heagney-Bayliss
Ed Craven purchased this property for $38.5 million in 2022.

The houses where Australia’s billionaires live, and how much they cost

At the absolute top end of the property market, buyers need business success or family wealth, or a bit of both.

  • Elizabeth Redman
A lack of housing is helping house prices to continue to rise as buyers compete.

The locations where houses make more money than their owners

In a two-speed housing market, some home owners made higher paper capital gains over the past year compared to their salary.

  • Melissa Heagney-Bayliss
‘It was more important than ever to create an established family home and feel nurtured. This house did just that.’

This creative duo turned a 1940s Freo bungalow into a family haven

Developers had made offers but the creative couple managed to buy the house for $50,000 off the asking price, and then give it a glow-up.

  • Elizabeth Clarke

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