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| May 1, 2025 | What are the major issues in Australia’s election Saturday? | Prices of eggs surged 11% last year and beer rose 4%, according to government figures. Average rents rose 4.8% last year after a 8.1% spike in 2023, property analyst CoreLogic said.
The central bank’s benchmark interest rate rose from a rec... |
| Mar 2, 2025 | Australian's housing market ends downturn as rate cut lifts sentiment, CoreLogic data shows | Australian's housing market ends downturn as rate cut lifts sentiment, CoreLogic data shows
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| 2025 | Australian home prices finally cool as 2024 comes to an end | Australian home prices finally cool as 2024 comes to an end
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| Nov 3, 2024 | The Shrinking Spaces: Affordable Housing for Millennials in the Asia-Pacific | In the Asia-Pacific, the dream of homeownership is slipping through the fingers of millennials like sand. As cities swell with populations, affordable housing becomes a mirage. Young adults are finding refuge in micro apartments, granny fla... |
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| Dec 22, 2023 | OpenAgent.com.au raises $6 million to capture more of Australia’s property market | article-article-body
A chance meeting and 400% year-on-year growth has helped real estate agent comparison startup OpenAgent.com.au close a $6 million funding round.
The $6 million round comes from Hollard Investments, which counts Greensto... |
| Sep 9, 2022 | The housing markets could crash in Canada, New Zealand, and Australia. They're 3 cautionary tales for the US. | Sydney, Australia with Harbor Bridge skyline during sunset. Prasit photo
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Global real estate markets have been in overdrive during the Covid-19 pandemic.
But homebuyer activity has slowed in countries like Canada, New Zealand and ... |
| Jul 11, 2022 | Adam Schwab: How Philip Lowe’s failures could help send Australia into a recession | Reserve Bank governor Philip Lowe.
Since Alan Greenspan’s two-decade reign as the chair of the US Federal Reserve, central bankers have held a mythical place among commentators and investors. This has been a triumph of spin over substance w... |
| Jul 6, 2022 | “Hard economic landing”: Builders urge RBA to take its time on another interest rate hike as construction faces the brink | Source: Mick Tsikas / AAP Image
A leading construction industry group has called on the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to take a ‘wait and see’ approach to its cash rate hikes, as builders weigh the need to combat inflation against the lik... |
| Jun 24, 2022 | MONEYME launches ListReady direct to consumers to further empower sellers | SYDNEY, June 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital lender and non-bank challenger MONEYME (ASX: MME) is expanding its ListReady product in a bid to further empower sellers in a shifting property market.
The popular payment solution for expenses ... |
| Feb 15, 2022 | Regional house prices soared more than 26% in just 12 months, outpacing capital cities and raising concerns about long-term impacts | Regional house prices soared more than 26% in just 12 months, outpacing capital cities and raising concerns about long-term impacts. (Credit: iStock)
The median property value across regional Australia outpaced the combined capital city gro... |
| Feb 3, 2022 | A raft of new social housing proposals are being criticised for being too ambitious — and not ambitious enough | Parramatta, in Sydney's Western Suburbs, where a nearby social housing project has been proposed. (Photo by Cameron Spencer/Getty Images)
Amid a housing affordability crisis, several new social housing proposals are being scrutinised.
While... |
| Dec 16, 2021 | These are the most expensive suburbs in Australia, according to a new report | Credit: Getty
Australia’s most expensive housing market gained almost 60% in only 12 months in 2021.
Sydney has nine of the top 10 suburbs with the highest median house price nationwide.
Sales volumes across the country soared to the highes... |
| Dec 1, 2021 | Australian house prices rose 1.5% in October, up 22% for the year, but signs point to slowing momentum in 2022 | (Credit: iStock)
Half of Australian capital cities recorded property value increases of more than 20% this year, a new CoreLogic report shows.
While national growth remained unchanged, regionally market conditions fluctuated, with housing v... |
| Nov 23, 2021 | Property prices have grown twice as much as wages over the past 20 years | (Brendon Thorne, Getty Images)
New analysis by CoreLogic highlights the extent to which the property market has accelerated ahead of wages in the past 20 years.
While wages increased 81.7% in the past 20 years, Australian home values have s... |
| Oct 15, 2021 | Home prices soar beyond reach but government inquiry unlikely to give answers | Never has an inquiry into the skyrocketing price of homes been more urgent.
Rarely has one been as insultingly ill-suited as the one under way right now.
Midway through last year in the midst of COVID-19, the average forecast of the 22 lead... |
| Jun 16, 2021 | Honey Insurance launches with $15.5M AUD, the largest seed round ever for an Australian tech startup | When Richard Joffe moved his family to Australia in 2019, he said applying for home insurance “was like traveling back in time 30 years.”
“I found the sign-up process painful, the fine print was confusing and the insurance company was total... |
| May 31, 2021 | Victoria is facing its first lockdown without an eviction ban. Advocates say new reforms don’t provide enough protection for renters. | A peak tenants’ advocacy group has warned Victoria’s latest COVID-19 lockdown may grow the inequality gap between landlords and struggling tenants.
Jennifer Beveridge, CEO of Tenants Victoria, said recent reforms to rental laws do not offer... |
| May 4, 2021 | Australian borrowers signed on for a record $30.2 billion in home loans in March as property prices skyrocketed | The value of new home loan commitments shot to a record high of $30.2 billion in March, the Australian Bureau of Statistics reports.
Investor lending spiked 12.8% over the month to $7.8 billion, as Australia’s housing market continued its j... |
| May 4, 2021 | Thinking about investing in property? Here’s everything you need to know about the market in 2021 | Image: iStock/courtneyk
Inner city dwellings may not recover until international visitor restrictions are lifted.
Westpac forecast property growth of over 20% over two years.
Investors making a comeback, new lending figures rise 4.5% month-... |
| Apr 30, 2021 | Mortgage Choice : Two out of five Australians believe now is the right time to get into the property market but as home values skyrocket,… | April 30, 2021
Two out of five Australians believe now is the right time to get into the property market but as home values skyrocket, one in three are hesitant.
Two in five (42%) Australians say now is a good time to buy property
Millennia... |
| Mar 8, 2021 | There are only 2 areas in Australia where women own more property than men, according to a new report | (David Gray, Getty Images)
In Australia 26.2% of property belongs exclusively to women, compared with 29.9% owned by men, according to the report ‘Women and Property: State of Play’.
Areas with more expensive housing have higher rates of fe... |
| Feb 1, 2021 | Australia’s economic forecasters are suddenly optimistic about 2021 | A bird's-eye view of a suburb near the Brisbane CBD.
Suddenly, economic forecasters are optimistic.
Six months ago, the forecasting team assembled by The Conversation was expecting Australia’s recession to continue into 2021, sending the ec... |
| Oct 4, 2017 | Three charts that show the generational wealth gap in Australia | By Trent Wiltshire and Danielle Wood, Grattan Institute
It’s a tale of two Australias: older Australians are getting much wealthier, and the young are being left behind.
It’s a story only too familiar to Australians under 45 who have strugg... |
| Jun 5, 2017 | Have we reached ‘peak’ house prices in Australia? | By Richard Holden, UNSW
In 1956, US geophysicist M. King Hubbert predicted that the rate of petroleum production for a given geographic area follows a hump-shaped curve, and that the world would reach “peak oil” production in 1970.
And, as ... |
| Oct 1, 2015 | Why slowing population growth is on the mind of smart property investors | Last week the Australian Bureau of Statistics warned our population growth is slowing.
Will this slowdown pose a risk to our economy and pull the rug out from under our property markets?
There is already a lot of talk about our property mar... |
| Sep 24, 2015 | Spring state-by-state property markets roundup | We’re into the spring real estate season and our national housing markets have continued to grow throughout the year as the result of the lowest interest rates in 60 years and strong investor activity.
While the pace of capital growth has s... |
| Jul 30, 2015 | Ticking time bomb for off-the-plan property investors | As if those who have recently bought off-the-plan apartments didn’t already have enough to worry about, with a looming oversupply of new apartments and poor on-completion valuations; now tougher lending criteria could mean many won’t be abl... |
| Jun 30, 2015 | OpenAgent.com.au raises $6 million to capture more of Australia’s property market | A chance meeting and 400% year-on-year growth has helped real estate agent comparison startup OpenAgent.com.au close a $6 million funding round.
The $6 million round comes from Hollard Investments, which counts Greenstone Ltd and Hollard In... |
| Jun 16, 2015 | Property platform Vendorable matches sellers to real estate agents | Sydney-based startup Vendorable is trying to fix what its founders describe as the biggest problem facing property sellers – finding the right agent.
Real estate sellers sign up to the Vendorable platform and list their property sales for t... |
| May 15, 2015 | Budget 2015: What it means for property | Treasure Joe Hockey handed down his second federal budget this week and while there are many initiatives for small businesses and families, the budget virtually ignored our housing markets.
This is interesting considering housing affordabil... |
| Dec 1, 2014 | Former Genetic Technologies chief jailed for market manipulation; Merry Christmas ahead for property buyers at auctions: Midday Roundup | Former Genetic Technologies (GTG) chief executive Dr Mervyn Jacobson was today handed a jail sentence of two years and eight months, after being convicted of manipulating the company’s share price on the Australia Securities Exchange.
Jacob... |
| Dec 2, 2012 | Top end property set for a better 2013 | Current property purchasing behaviours are, in part, mirroring those that began the housing market recovery back in late 2008, where conditions first improved across the most affordable sectors and then moved to significant improvements in ... |
| Australia’s budget is expected to target housing crisis as prices keep climbing | Australian home prices are set to keep climbing as the housing supply shortage is compounded by record migration and limited capacity to deliver new builds.
“Affordability is currently at the worst levels on record in Australia from a mortg... |
| Robust or vulnerable? Experts are split on Australia’s economic outlook | Australia’s economists are tied on their judgement call concerning the outlook of the economy down under.
The Bank of Queensland is “quite bullish” about Australia’s “very robust economy,” while others are more cautious.
However, not everyo... |
| Australia’s house prices fall, interest rates soar but analysts say there’s no crash yet | Banks have passed on the increased borrowing costs through higher loan rates, which are now hovering between 4% and 5% and on track to rise further.
Australian homeowner Lili Zhang said her repayments will soon double to about A$16,000 a mo... |