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The best returns over the past five years were not from the typical home in Sydney or Melbourne.

‘Huge tailwind’: When you should have bought a house

Property buyers could have made a 70 per cent capital gain in five years – if they picked the right time and place.

  • Elizabeth Redman

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5 Shelton Street, Waikiki WA 6169

Inside the massive Perth beachside mansion that’s never been lived in

A wealthy couple built the home 30 years ago as their summer house and visited a couple of weeks a year - and now it’s for sale.

  • Kate Kachor
Some property investors own for only a short time.

Why so many landlords are forced to sell their properties

Experts are calling for more education and even a UK-style business registration scheme for property investors renting homes out.

  • Melissa Heagney-Bayliss
Perth property is proving resilient despite multiple rate rises.

Where to find the cheapest streets in Perth’s most expensive suburbs

A house in the most sought after pockets of City Beach will set you back around $4 million but if you’re happy to move to a less salubrious street you can snaffle a unit for less than the median price of a house in Perth.

  • Sarah Brookes
Consumers are not quite as gloomy about the property market.

‘Not a lot of political will’: The unpopular fix for our housing woes

New figures lay bare how far the cost of home ownership has soared out of reach, but a key solution seems elusive.

  • Melissa Heagney-Bayliss
A BGC ‘shell home’ (left) and one of its problem builds (right).

BGC churns Perth ‘shell homes’ amid class action over years-long builds

One of WA’s largest residential construction companies is under the microscope after buying vacant lots, building homes on them in less than a year and listing them for sale.

  • Sarah Brookes
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Perth’s highest-median suburbs in the March 2025 quarter, according to Domain homepage image.

Rents soar in Perth’s most in-demand school zones

The cost to rent a house in some of Perth’s most in-demand school catchment areas has ballooned in a year, in one suburb by more than 50 per cent.

  • Holly Thompson
NAB has upgraded its house price forecast for Perth, Brisbane and Adelaide amid ongoing strong growth.

Perth property frenzy eases as house prices dip below peak

Changing conditions in Perth’s turbulent property market has seen the pace of gains slow, but some suburbs are still recording impressive monthly gains.

  • Sarah Brookes
Not enough homes are being built to house WA’s increasing population.

Perth’s property market is booming, but owners are still selling at a loss in these suburbs

Just five years ago, nearly half of all homes on the market in Perth sold for a loss, now it is a minuscule 2.6 per cent.

  • Sarah Brookes
The property market defied forecasts of 20 per cent price falls.

Where property prices rose most over the past five years

Around this time five years ago, economists were warning of 20 per cent house price falls. But the property market defied the gloom.

  • Elizabeth Redman

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