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Property market downturn hits 93% of Australian suburbs

Price falls now universal except Darwin, with buyers delaying purchases expecting 15-20% further declines.
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Perth property prices soften in pockets as buyers hit serviceability ceiling

Early data shows small declines in select Perth suburbs while agents dispute the scale, a test case for what happens when credit tightens in a supply-starved market.
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Queensland property market lending falls 5.9% as credit rationing outpaces price drops

Loan volumes down harder than values in June quarter. Is credit the real constraint, or will supply hold the floor?
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Auction clearance rates fall to 52.4% as spring listings arrive

Clearance rates dropped for the third straight week while auction volumes jumped 16%. Either vendors are testing stale price expectations or buyers are about to return.
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Passed in auctions: what actually happens next and what it costs

More buyers are banking on post-auction discounts, but the numbers tell a different story about who wins when the hammer doesn't fall.
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Gold Coast housing supply: $146m infrastructure bet faces land scarcity reality

Queensland backs infrastructure to unlock 18,900 homes, but with just 68 lots available last quarter, can capital spending outpace the binding constraint?
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Hobart property market stays firm as rents, low stock offset rate drag

While capital-city values flatten, Hobart dwelling prices rose 1.4% last quarter. The question: can tight supply and yield strength hold when listings lift in spring?
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Melbourne CBD office occupancy lags Sydney as hybrid work sticks

Property Council data shows Melbourne's CBD recovery trails Sydney by a meaningful margin. The gap isn't closing.
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Resilient property markets Australia: 10 regions that gained through three downturns

Ten regional pockets stayed positive through 2004, 2018 and 2026 corrections while capitals fell, but the structural supports that protected them may not hold this cycle.
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Housing downturn retail spending: how falling prices hit shops

Residential price falls are cutting household spending, and retail landlords are feeling it through weaker tenant sales and rent pressure.
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Property price falls Australia: how far to erase pandemic gains

Melbourne needs a 10% drop to hit pre-Covid levels. Perth could fall 20% and still be at April 2025 prices. The buffer gap is wider than the headlines suggest.
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Housing workforce shortage: 36,000 apprentices, 126,000 tradies short

Record apprenticeship commencements can't close a 126,000-worker gap widening faster than new entrants qualify, the supply constraint no zoning reform can fix.
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Property settlement failures rise as buyers walk away betting on 20pc drop

Finance-approved buyers are forfeiting deposits and abandoning contracts in a gamble that prices will fall further, but the numbers suggest they may be wrong.
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Luxury apartment demand softens as major developer posts loss

A top-tier developer's writedowns signal weaker appetite at the premium end, and fewer new projects ahead.
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Chinese capital exit: $900m office tower sale tests CBD appetite

A major insurer's retreat from Sydney's Salesforce Tower raises the question: capital controls, or a wider rethink of office risk?
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Housing construction slowdown: delayed shockwave building in credit, spending

A major bank warns the post-budget housing slump's full impact is still unfolding, but the data shows who gets hit first.
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Mortgage lending falls $5.4bn: serviceability or cycle?

Investor loan commitments just posted their steepest dollar drop in a decade. The question isn't whether demand cooled, it's whether the mix coming back looks anything like the market that stalled.
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Investor lending drops 8.6% as negative gearing reform clears the market

New ABS data shows the sharpest quarterly fall in investor loan commitments since 2022, but the full supply-side consequence won't show for months.

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