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House price growth Australia: why a decade of doubling is a fragile bet

New modelling projects hundreds of suburbs doubling by 2036. The maths leans on past trends, and the next decade looks structurally different.
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Property sentiment index flips negative as rates bite

A NAB survey of property professionals now sees house prices sliding 4.2% over a year, and the constraint has moved from supply to borrowing costs.
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Regional NSW property growth: scarcity or thin volumes?

Some unexpected towns have posted double-digit gains, but a rise on few sales can mislead investors chasing the trend.
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Home sales down 20.9 per cent: price data is the last to know

Sales are down about a fifth, yet values have only slipped for six months. The gap between the two may be hiding the real damage.
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Shopping centre apartments: 25,000-unit pipeline faces planning reality check

A major retail landlord has flagged its mall sites for housing conversion. Whether the sites can deliver at scale depends on approvals, infrastructure, and viability, not just ambition.
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Private credit construction finance: Bathla collapse exposes risk

A major developer's administration raises questions about how much exposure sits with non-bank lenders, and whether the market knows.
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Property buyer timing risk: why waiting for rate cuts could backfire

Buyer numbers are down 30%, competition has vanished, and sellers are accepting conditions again. So why are buyers still sitting out?
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Brisbane retail property: $883m mall stake sale signals shift

A major super fund just bought into one of Brisbane's largest shopping centres. The question isn't the price, it's what they see that others don't.
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Non-bank lender sale reveals broker-channel consolidation pressure

A commercial and residential property lender's move to test investor appetite exposes the tension between aggregator ownership and multi-channel distribution.
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New home sales slide 3.7% as investors buy but owner-occupiers step back

Three straight months of falling sales despite record investor lending into new builds, so where are the owner-occupiers?
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Housing stress threshold hits $130k in WA as rents outpace wages

Households earning six figures now face rental stress in Western Australia's tightest market in decades. What income actually works, and is your state next?
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First home buyer loans rising as investors retreat: what’s driving it

New entrants are the only group still increasing loan applications while investor demand falls, but is this surge sustainable or a policy-driven sugar hit?
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Rental affordability Australia: single workers now spend 50-69% of pay

Median apartments now eat more than half of take-home pay for a $70k earner in every capital, and regional centres offer no escape.
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Boomer downsizing wave: 1.93m households set to move, what it means for supply

Two million Australian households plan to downsize within five years, but whether that frees up family homes or floods the wrong end of the market depends on where they move and what they leave behind.
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Housing downturn spending: how frozen property sales crush furniture retailers

Property transaction volumes fell sharply mid-year, and now furniture and appliance chains are feeling the secondary hit.
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School zone property premium: what Sydney buyers actually pay

Catchment boundaries are creating a parallel housing market in Sydney. The premium compounds over decades, but the floor it creates may not hold if one thing changes.
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Broker consolidation accelerates as revenue per operator jumps 16%

One major aggregator shed 152 brokers in three months while its loan book grew 25% and revenue per broker climbed sharply, a pattern that points to fewer, bigger players.
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Regional housing downturn: which markets are falling and why

Regional property values dropped 0.1% last quarter as the decline spreads beyond capitals, but the pattern isn't uniform.

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