A celebrity investor’s sprawling portfolio points to a simple truth: the best property buys are not always the most “rational”. The catch is knowing when lifestyle adds value and when it destroys it.
Homes inside Labor’s buyer scheme caps have jumped 6.7% in six months. That may get buyers in sooner, but it could also leave them thinner on margin if rates bite again.
Real estate businesses can already enrol with AUSTRAC before the 1 July 2026 deadline. The real risk is treating a major compliance shift like a paperwork exercise.
APRA is moving before the market fully heats up again. That could protect the system, but it may also cut borrowing power before buyers realise what changed.
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.
A $1bn super scandal has forced Canberra to act, but the fix could shift costs and risks across the whole system before investors know where the line is drawn.
Fuel, freight and material costs are rising again, and builders say marginal projects are slipping closer to unworkable. The real question is who wears the damage.
SQM has cut its 2026 housing outlook as oil, inflation and rate risk return. But first-home buyer lending is still rising, and that changes the read on the market.
Tough new debt limits will make it harder for highly geared Aussies to keep growing their property portfolios – especially those already near the edge.
Inflation was already proving sticky. Now the oil shock is threatening to push petrol, freight, building inputs and borrowing costs higher at the same time. For property investors, the real risk is not just dearer fuel. It is the prospect of rates staying high for longer just as sentiment weakens.
Australia is moving the opposite way to the US on rates. That gap could squeeze borrowers, lift political heat and test the economy. But where does it end?
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.
An offshore move can turn an Australian family home into a tax problem. The lifestyle upside is obvious, but the real cost often appears only when you sell.
A $1bn super scandal has forced Canberra to act, but the fix could shift costs and risks across the whole system before investors know where the line is drawn.
In recent years, the allure of off-market properties has significantly grown among investors and homebuyers alike, driven by the dual forces of escalating property prices and climbing mortgage interest...
SQM has cut its 2026 housing outlook as oil, inflation and rate risk return. But first-home buyer lending is still rising, and that changes the read on the market.
Wagga, Tamworth and Tasmania’s north-west still look cheap by national standards. But is the upside real, or just a sales pitch with the risks left out?
APRA is moving before the market fully heats up again. That could protect the system, but it may also cut borrowing power before buyers realise what changed.
For years, agents have lived with the sense that portal price rises only moved one way. Now CoStar-backed Domain is trying to change that. The headline sounds simple. The real story is what it could do to bargaining power across the property market.