Today
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
How high house prices and loser landlords drive this property bet
Anthony Albanese’s house purchase underscores the grim reality facing many buyers. One entrepreneur wants to help – and make big returns for his investors.
- James Thomson
Yesterday
House price growth to slow to 5pc nationally: experts
The pace of house price growth is slowing as affordability constraints and high borrowing costs take the edge off strong underlying demand.
- Nick Lenaghan
Property pay moderates as companies tighten their belts
Average wage increases fell for the second time this year as companies sought to be more sustainable, a survey of 1700 businesses has found.
- Larry Schlesinger
This Month
Colleagues warned Albanese against home purchase
Publicly, MPs are defending Anthony Albanese for spending $4.3 million on a home in the middle of a housing crisis. Privately, many are seething.
- Phillip Coorey
- Opinion
- Housing affordability
Albanese’s $4.3m home controversy is pure tall poppy syndrome
Financial success of public leaders is celebrated in the United States. But in Australia, it is political poison.
- John Kehoe
Where home buyers can snag the best beach house bargains now
House prices in some of the most popular coastal suburbs are starting to rise, but buyers can still find sharp discounts.
- Nila Sweeney
Dubai’s allure to expats is weighing on city’s infrastructure
A glut of expats has sent property prices soaring. Competition is hot for school admissions, public transport is limited and roads are jammed.
- Abeer Abu Omar and Zainab Fattah
Unliveable apartment with no kitchen sells for a ‘surprising’ $3.3m
Buyers, gaining confidence about the direction of the market and interest rates, are starting to spend big. Especially on dumps in great locations.
- Michael Bleby
Auction clearance rates tipped to fall as listings rise
Preliminary clearance rates rebounded over the weekend, but the market is still headed for further slowdown as more properties get put up for sale.
- Nila Sweeney
Mirvac’s $2b answer to the lack of three-bedroom apartments
Strong demand for bigger apartments is expected to outpace supply in the coming years.
- Nila Sweeney
The value of the housing market hits a record $11 trillion
The value of the country’s residential market is expected to rise higher in coming years, but the rate of price growth is poised to slow in the months ahead.
- Nila Sweeney
The undervalued suburbs where buyers can bag bargains
Home buyers could potentially nab a good deal in these undervalued housing markets.
- Nila Sweeney
Investor demand for homes outstrips supply
More investors are entering the market than are bailing out, as expectations grow that interest rates will be cut within months.
- Nila Sweeney
Newer apartment prices to climb by 23 per cent by 2026
Lower interest rates, strong demand and supply shortage will fuel a rebound in apartment values, according to CBRE.
- Nila Sweeney
Culinary power couple serve up quick $21m sale of Toorak mansion
It took less than a week for restaurateur Andrew McConnell and partner Jo McGann to sell their art deco Toorak home, while other mansions languish unsold.
- Larry Schlesinger and Michael Bleby
Why nobody’s biting in these buyers’ markets
Buying conditions have dramatically improved, but buyers are shunning markets that are oversupplied with investor units from the last boom.
- Nila Sweeney
Sydney leads housing market slowdown as clearances fall
Sustained higher interest rates, a softening economy and consumer confidence are starting to bite the country’s east-coast-dominated housing markets.
- Michael Bleby
- Analysis
- Residential property
Three reasons the housing supercycle is just getting going
Residential property seems to have a remarkable ability to keep appreciating, whatever the weather. It will probably defy gravity even more insolently in the coming years.
- The Economist
Housing investors borrow at highest level in more than two years
Home loans, like housing prices, lay bare the differences between Australia’s distinct residential markets.
- Michael Bleby
Tweaking the 3pc buffer rule misses the real problem with housing
Reducing the mortgage serviceability test would allow more borrowers into the market. But the test is only one part of a much gnarlier problem.
- Lucy Dean
