Victoria's auction clearance rate hit a four-month high last week, yet volume collapsed and median prices remain below lockdown levels, so what's really driving this divergence?
Bowen Hills gets height limits doubled and planning fast-tracked, but construction capacity and feasibility will decide if 27,000 dwellings actually arrive.
Wage bills at 30-year highs, input costs spiking, yet builders are still signing fixed-price deals to win work. Who absorbs the squeeze and what it means for your build.
A builder claims it can ship 10,000 finished homes a year into Australia, bypassing tradie shortages and council delays, but the logistics, cost structure and regulatory barriers tell a different story.
Another rate rise would hit recent borrowers hard while missing the households driving services inflation, the blunt instrument problem nobody's solving.
A non-bank lender's decision to consolidate broker and direct sales under one executive raises a question the industry hasn't settled: what happens when the channel distinction starts to blur?
One non-bank's milestone shows where the majors draw the line on development and complex property finance. The $10bn question is what happens when this tier tightens.
One in a hundred 5% deposit scheme borrowers sits below break-even, concentrated in Sydney and Melbourne's priciest suburbs, but the guarantee shifts the risk, not the reality.
Residential SMSF lending shut down in August, but refinancing and commercial deals remain open, at terms that reveal how lenders now view superannuation-backed property risk.
A takeover battle at one of Australia's largest lifestyle communities operators has reignited the debate over whether real estate investment trusts are cheap or overvalued.
Staying in your fund's preset investment mix costs the average worker six figures by retirement. The maths is simple, but the switch rate is shockingly low.
Six of Australia's ten strongest LGAs are in South Australia, but the same supply tightness driving performance now could amplify the fall when national headwinds arrive.
A $130m Toowong riverside tower has sold $40m since launch, but with settlement risk rising across the broader apartment market, can boutique projects maintain pricing power that volume builders are losing?
A quarter-million-dollar deposit can vanish into a settlement pool, or stay protected as a liability, depending on one document most families never sign.
Reverse-cycle air conditioners beat portable heaters by a factor of three. Hot water systems account for a quarter of the average power bill. So why is Australia's housing stock still running on tech from the 1990s?
Spending $80,000 before July 2027 could save tax later, or it could just be $80,000 gone, the difference comes down to three numbers most investors haven't run.
Global developers are pouring capital into branded residences at triple 2015 levels. The question: does this tier ride out a correction, or amplify it?
Perth homeowners are now spending nearly half their income on mortgages, more than Sydney's worst quarters in 2023, and rental supply hasn't kept pace with population.
Dozens of applications, zero explanations. The rental approval system runs on opacity by design, and that creates a fairness problem separate from affordability.
Foreign developers building for sale in WA now skip transfer duty -- but will it unlock stalled projects or just subsidise developments already breaking ground?
A near-$1bn refinancing for a distressed developer walked away over founder involvement, signalling private credit's tightening stance on workout control.
Falling property prices vs rising rate risk: the math that matters
Offshore office exit: what Suntec’s $1b sell-down signals for local buyers
Melbourne house prices set to fall further despite clearance rate uptick