Sydney hits peak unaffordability but rental relief to come
The country’s red hot rental price growth is set to cool as stretched household budgets will be unable to bear more increases, according to forecaster Oxford Economics.
Property Prices
Rent controls will force mum and dad investors to exit
Daniel Andrews indicates ‘everything is on the table’ as part of a property overhaul that could exacerbate a shortage of rentals, and send mum and dad investors fleeing.
Bigger housing price falls in store: RBA
Rising rates and declining real wages could stall consumer spending and lead to steep falls in property values, the RBA warns.
Labor unveils bold housing pitch to voters
Thousands more Australians would be able to afford a home under a landmark proposal that would cut the cost of buying property by up to 40 per cent.
Investors pile in amid rental rush
Despite record levels of investor lending, new PropTrack analysis shows it has failed to replace the number of homes that have been sold out of the rental pool in recent years.
Chinese property giants Evergrande, Kaisa default
Failures to repay investors are piling up in China’s property sector.
Housing to hit $10 trillion as boom rolls on
The value of all residential dwellings in Australia could be worth more than $10 trillion as soon as Christmas.
Axe stamp duty to boost affordability: report
The rising cost of ‘antiquated’ stamp duty is stifling property listings and contributing to the housing boom, says new analysis.
Housing crackdown ‘risks economic growth’
The prospect of a regulatory tightening to rein in house prices has prompted a fierce backlash from developers who say the recovery is still fragile.
Why Evergrande crisis can be contained
Australian banks have more sunk in the domestic property market than their China counterparts – the Evergrande drama is not a risk to broader markets.
Banking on cooler house prices
Something very unusual is happening – the head of the nation’s biggest mortgage lender wants the government to step in and cool the housing market.
Delicate housing balance for RBA
The latest argument in favour of macroprudential housing controls is higher debt-to-income ratios, but data goes the other way too.
RBA plan won’t cool property prices
So-called ‘macroprudential’ moves to rein in the amount banks lend in property worked in the last cycle – this time it will be different.
Property price curbs loom
Regulatory intervention to cool the booming housing market is looking increasingly likely before the end of the year.
Small change a big difference for downsizers
Older couples rattling around houses far too big while younger families struggle for space… there may finally be a solution.
‘Not optional’: property groups fret population slowdown
The property industry has welcomed the Budget’s housing incentives but is worried by its population growth projections.
Rent hike likely as vacancies fall
The lowest level of availability in nearly a decade is expected to start putting a holes in the pockets of suburban and regional renters in coming months.
We’re wealthier than ever thanks to property
New ABS numbers show households are getting wealthier in dollar terms even if we still put more cash into bank deposits than share markets
First home buyers squeezed back out
New figures show investors are back in the property market squeezing out first home buyers despite a range of incentives.
Housing exuberance may have peaked
Housing clearance rates dropped below 80 per cent for the first time this year, with the dip a sign the market could be cooling.
Why house prices will move off the boil this year
The strong growth in house prices is expected to cool later this year.
Housing intervention a ‘rational response’, says NAB chair
NAB chairman Phil Chronican says intervention in the hot housing market would be a ‘rational response’ by regulators.
Housing stimulus a $100bn bonanza
The $25,000 HomeBuilder scheme could be extended after demand outstripped forecasts.
We’ll all be feeling Covid hangover for years to come
Low interest rates, rising property prices and a shortage of places to store retirement capital will all be long-running legacies of the virus.
Curbs a risk for first-time buyers
Changes to lending regulations to halt rising property prices may block first-home buyers.
New love affair with fixed mortgages
Australians are snapping up fixed-rate home loans at a record pace, laying the foundation for a potentially painful repricing in two or three years’ time.
‘House prices could soar 15% this year’
UBS predicts a push by investors could aid the surge in property values, with regulators unlikely to intervene until late this year.
Not enough houses: Westpac
Westpac’s CEO says a lack of housing supply is helping push prices to unaffordable levels for first-time buyers.
Mandarins play property price ping-pong
According to our financial regulators, the most important thing to know about Australia’s ballooning house prices is that they’re someone else’s problem.
Melbourne property prices hit post-Covid high
New figures reveal the city’s house values have regained all their losses to surge past their April 2020 peak.
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