Rental reform is about supply v demand, not tenants v landlords
For so long, the loudest social discourse surrounding the national rental crisis has aimed to pit landlords against their tenants. But one of the nation’s leading real ...
HOTSPOTS • Wed, 13 Sep 2023
Experts warn HAFF deal no silver bullet for supply crisis
Anthony Albanese’s Labor Party struck a deal with the Greens to bring an end to the housing policy stalemate that threatened a return to the polls, with the move welcomed ...
EXPLAINED: Are short-term holiday rentals killing the national housing market?
Short-term rental accommodation’s (STRA) popularity has risen rapidly in recent years, but how damaging is it for the already struggling national property market?
HOTSPOTS • Tue, 12 Sep 2023
Average home loan requires nearly 50% of Aussies’ income: Report
Both housing and rental affordability continued to worsen across Australia throughout the June quarter, according to new data from the Real Estate Institute of Australia ...
HOTSPOTS • Mon, 11 Sep 2023
Hunting affordable investing? 5 suburbs to zero in on
With Australian property values rising once more, one buyer’s agency has done the hard yards and located five areas that scream affordability.
HOTSPOTS • Sun, 10 Sep 2023
How Australia’s housing market returned to $10tn
For the first time in 14 months, Australia’s housing market is valued above $10 trillion, but what has driven this rise?
Qld values remain resilient through Q2: Report
New findings from the Sunshine State’s peak real estate body suggests Queensland’s property market performed better than most other regions over the June quarter.
HOTSPOTS • Thu, 07 Sep 2023
Listings surge as spring sprouts
Following over a year of unfavourable market conditions, new data from SQM Research has revealed a flood of properties entering the market just as the spring selling ...
How will the market respond to 3 successive cash rate holds?
In what was his final ever board meeting as the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor, Philip Lowe said the central bank’s decision to hold the cash rate indicates ...
HOTSPOTS • Wed, 06 Sep 2023
