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Negative gearing shake-up sends investors into new apartments

Market Signals

Negative gearing shake-up sends investors into new apartments

Investors are chasing the new-build tax carve-out, but first-home buyers may feel the pressure first.

Market Signals

Negative equity shock hits first-home buyers hardest

Recent buyers are discovering a brutal gap between what they spent and what lenders now think their homes are worth.

Policy Watch

Negative gearing grandfathering may trap investors

Existing landlords may keep a tax edge future buyers lose, creating a strange incentive not to sell.

Market Signals

Auction Clearance Rates Send a Warning to Sellers

More vendors are delaying auctions as buyers wait for lower prices. The next test is whether sellers blink first.

Investment Playbooks

Using Home Equity to Invest: The Risk Hidden in the Numbers

A mortgage can be cleared faster or used to fund another property. In today’s rate market, the wealthier path may also be the more fragile one.

Market Signals

Australia Is Short 262,000 Homes. Will Prices Surge Again?

Australia is forecast to miss its housing target by 262,000 homes as buyer support expands. Does that mean prices must rise?

Investment Playbooks

The Millionaire Habit Property Investors Keep Ignoring

A podcast on wealthy quirks points to a harder truth: long-term wealth is usually built through boring decisions made repeatedly.

Policy Watch

The Missing CGT Rule That Could Sting Property Investors

A rental-property sale can create years of profit in one tax return. Under the proposed CGT reset, the missing safeguard may matter most.

Investment Playbooks

Budget Tax Changes Put Superannuation Back in Focus

Proposed tax limits on property and trusts leave super looking stronger, but access rules and new high-balance taxes complicate the move.

Rates & Credit

Australia’s Economy Is Slowing, But the RBA May Not Blink

Guides & Checklists

Building Contract Risks: How a Cheap Quote Can Cost More

Investment Playbooks

Commercial Property Investment: The Yield Trap Investors Miss

Policy Watch

Labor’s Budget Retreat Could Leave Investors in a Tax Trap

Policy Watch

Negative Gearing Reform: Greens Raise Price of Labor Deal

Labor has set its property tax plan. The Greens may demand more, putting investor protections and the bill’s timing in play.

Rates & Credit

Jobs Shock Puts RBA’s Next Rate Hike on Thin Ice

Unemployment has jumped to 4.5 per cent, but sticky inflation means borrowers may not be out of danger yet.

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Dwelling approvals jumped, but Australia’s housing fix still looks shaky

Approvals surged in February, led by apartments and townhouses. That sounds like relief for supply, but the bigger housing story may still be far less comforting.

Market Signals

Is Your House an Asset or a Liability?

Deciding to purchase a house for your own or for your family is one of the most important decisions you may have to make in life. When trying to...

Market Signals

Why This Rate Rise Could Make Australia’s Rental Crisis Even Worse

A higher cash rate is meant to cool demand. But in housing, the bigger story may be what it does to supply, rents and the part of the market first-home buyers rely on most.

Market Signals

Breaking Free from the Middle-Class Money Trap

How Smart Spending and Property Strategy Can Turn Comfort into Freedom

Market Signals

Luxury Property’s Old Sydney-Melbourne Script Is Breaking

Prestige buyers are shifting north and west, but the new luxury boom may be less secure than it looks

Market Signals

Meriton’s Sydney freeze is a warning shot for housing supply

Australia’s biggest apartment builder says Sydney no longer stacks up. If that capital shifts north, the housing squeeze may get worse before it gets better.

Market Signals

These Australian towns may boom while others age out

Australia’s prime working-age population is still growing, but not everywhere. That split could reshape local housing demand, council budgets and business growth by 2036.

Rates & Credit

One tiny rate rise can change everything for property in 2026

A 0.25 per cent hike doesn’t just lift repayments, it hits confidence, cools demand and exposes investors with no buffer.

Rates & Credit

RBA Rate Cuts: Housing Affordability & Cost‑of‑Living Impact 2025

How property buyers and investors should respond to changing interest rates and rising living costs in Australia

Rates & Credit

Why It Feels Like You Should Afford a Home, But Still Can’t

Your income may be up and your deposit may look solid, yet the bank still says no. That gap is where today’s housing frustration really lives.

Rates & Credit

The Quiet Winners of Higher Rates Aren’t Who Most Australians Think

Higher rates are biting hard in one part of Australia. In another, they may be doing the opposite.

Rates & Credit

Will A 5% Deposit Really Help First-Home Buyers, Or Just Push Prices Higher?

What the new 5% scheme could mean for buyers, investors, and the next leg up in Australia’s property market.

Rates & Credit

The RBA’s split rate rise exposes the truth: this was Australia’s inflation problem, not Iran’s

A divided RBA board has raised a bigger question than the hike itself: was this really about Middle East tension, or did Australia’s own inflation problem leave the bank with nowhere else to go?

Rates & Credit

Jobs Shock Puts RBA’s Next Rate Hike on Thin Ice

Unemployment has jumped to 4.5 per cent, but sticky inflation means borrowers may not be out of danger yet.

Rates & Credit

How Smart Investors Use Good Debt to Build Wealth

A practical guide to using leveraged property debt to grow your passive income

Policy Watch

The Missing CGT Rule That Could Sting Property Investors

A rental-property sale can create years of profit in one tax return. Under the proposed CGT reset, the missing safeguard may matter most.

Policy Watch

Negative gearing grandfathering may trap investors

Existing landlords may keep a tax edge future buyers lose, creating a strange incentive not to sell.

Policy Watch

The 70pc Tax Shock Hiding Inside Family Trusts

Bucket company tax bills may climb far beyond early estimates, but the real damage depends on the rules still being tested.

Policy Watch

Negative Gearing Reform: Greens Raise Price of Labor Deal

Labor has set its property tax plan. The Greens may demand more, putting investor protections and the bill’s timing in play.

Suburb Reviews

Sydney’s new crane fee could make housing even dearer

Hills Shire wants to charge $610 a week for some cranes. The stated aim is safety, but the bigger question is who ends up paying.

Policy Watch

The RBA is killing card surcharges. Who really pays?

Card surcharges are set to disappear from October 2026, but lower merchant fees do not automatically mean lower prices. The real winner is still up for debate.

Policy Watch

Labor’s Property Tax U-Turn Could Hit More Than Investors

Jim Chalmers is preparing voters for a property tax backflip. The question is whether it eases housing pressure or freezes supply.

Policy Watch

Why Australia’s migration fight could make housing worse

Migration is slowing, but the political push to cut it harder risks hitting housing supply, labour and growth all at once. The real question is what breaks next.

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