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All the latest updates affecting your property investment. Smart Property Investments is the top source for latest property market reports, insights, news and useful tips and strategies from experts.

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Hotspots 17 MAR 2021

Australia’s residential dwellings now valued at $7,724.4bn

The total value of Australian residential dwellings saw its strongest rise in four years, according to new figures from...

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Hotspots 17 MAR 2021

Melbourne keeps Asian investor confidence

Despite the impact of COVID-19 on the economy and investment markets, the Melbourne commercial property market has...

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Hotspots 17 MAR 2021

Mortgage delinquency rates to improve by end of 2021

Delinquency rates are expected to improve as economic momentum builds, but not before taking a hit on the first half of...

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Hotspots 16 MAR 2021

Top 10 Aussie cities foreign buyers are enquiring about

New research has identified the top 10 Australian cities foreign property buyers have their eye on.

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Finance 16 MAR 2021

‘Auction frenzy’ fuelling Vic property market

The number of homes going under the hammer in the Victorian property market has only added to rising demand, with more...

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Hotspots 16 MAR 2021

Top-selling auction suburbs in Victoria

After bearing the brunt of the impact of COVID-19 last year, the Victorian property market continues on a recovery...

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Hotspots 16 MAR 2021

Melbourne, Sydney continue struggle towards rental market recovery

While the national residential rental vacancy rate has remained steady, Melbourne and Sydney are still struggling...

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Hotspots 16 MAR 2021

Why men own more properties than women

As of January 2021, Australian men own over 3 per cent more properties than women, according to a new report.

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Hotspots 15 MAR 2021

NSW rental stock continues decline as Sydneysiders go west

The continuation of Sydneysiders leaving the big smoke for other parts of NSW has once again firmed up rental stock in...

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Hotspots 15 MAR 2021

Competition pushes homes $50k above first offers

Nationwide, final bids are up almost $50k on the first offers being made, thanks to a boom in qualified buyers and...

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Finance 15 MAR 2021

Will changing lending laws see a debt disaster?

A soaring property market combined with a federal government looking to wind back safe lending laws is set to spell a...

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Hotspots 15 MAR 2021

The WA location where rentals are spending just 11 days vacant

A number of regional centres have surpassed Perth in terms of the fastest median leasing time, with the city of...

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Hotspots 15 MAR 2021

Auction volumes rise to second highest number annually

Capital cities witnessed over 2,200 homes taken to auction over the past week, with clearance rates rising close to 20...

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Hotspots 12 MAR 2021

Property market update: Melbourne, February 2021

Against a backdrop of surging national property values, Melbourne’s housing market continued to stage a comeback in...

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Hotspots 12 MAR 2021

Is now the right time to sell your property?

Australia’s housing market is currently in one of the strongest growth phases on record, but is now a safe time to...

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Hotspots 12 MAR 2021

New home sales soar with one state blowing past expectations

New home sales in the three months to February trumped last year’s figures by 60.5 per cent, as the government’s...

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Hotspots 11 MAR 2021

How this investor turned his dud buys into a $4m portfolio

Investor Chris Panic’s first foray into property investing landed him a dud buy, but that did not discourage him from...

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Hotspots 11 MAR 2021

What is the average house price around Australia?

With the country rapidly recovering from the impacts of COVID-19, house and unit prices have picked up across the...

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Hotspots 11 MAR 2021

International students key to unlocking Perth’s CBD revival

The Property Council of Western Australia is demanding government support to reactivate Perth’s reputation as a...

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Hotspots 11 MAR 2021

Where to find the highest rental yields

Wondering which city will earn you the highest rental yield?

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Hotspots 11 MAR 2021

Tensions emerge as house prices continue to rise

A strong economic backdrop has led to a near 10-year high in consumer confidence, but evidence of tensions in the...

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Hotspots 10 MAR 2021

RBA puts to rest rate rise chatter and washes hands of house price boom

The Reserve Bank of Australia has put to rest chatter among investors that conditions for a higher cash rate could be...

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Hotspots 10 MAR 2021

Adelaide’s new hotspot region revealed

Despite a turbulent 2020, Adelaide’s property market remained largely resilient and welcomed the new year with strong...

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Finance 10 MAR 2021

Changing policy only way to slow housing market’s ‘up-crash’

Australia’s booming property market could be slowed through the use of regulatory powers rather than a central bank...

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Hotspots 10 MAR 2021

Why a 4pm Friday knock-off could spell good news for property

As COVID restrictions start to ease, Melburnians are being encouraged to “play, stay and spend time” in the city in...

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