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OPINION
Nerida Conisbee: what’s behind the regional Australia price rebound
Regional Australia was the standout during the pandemic, with the virus sparking the greatest movement of people to these parts of Australia ever recorded.
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OPINION
First home buyers dip their toe back in the market
It isn’t a bad time to be a first home buyer at the moment.
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OPINION
Nerida Conisbee: low volume winter looks likely
In April, new listings were down 17.1 per cent with Sydney and Melbourne seeing the biggest falls.
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OPINION
Nerida Conisbee: when will property prices return to their peak?
We’re now consistently seeing house price growth across every Australian capital city.
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OPINION
Interest rate hold looks increasingly likely
There are four ways to predict interest rate changes.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Nerida Conisbee: Is corporate ownership the answer to Australia’s rental crisis?
In the US, large companies currently own five per cent of rental properties.
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OPINION
Nerida Conisbee: housing construction not keeping up with population growth
Australia’s population growth increased by 290,000 people in the 12 months to June 2022 and this rate of increase is expected to continue to increase this year.
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OPINION
Nerida Conisbee: solving Australia’s rental spiral
We need more rental properties. The problem is that the group that funds most of them isn’t too keen on supplying more right now.Â
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Nerida Conisbee: China is roaring back
China abandoning its zero COVID-19 policy has resulted in the economy rebounding far faster than expected.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
House price declines starting to slow
Capital city house prices are now down 6.1 per cent from their peak in March 2022.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
If Australia follows the US into a tech downturn, these areas will be the most impacted
We may be in a cost of living crisis but we are certainly not in an employment crisis.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Nerida Conisbee: Australian economy slows but interest rates will keep rising for now
The latest inflation figures showed that it increased at a faster rate in November than it did in October, dashing hopes of a stop to interest rates rises at the start of this year.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Why aren’t house prices falling more quickly?
We have come off the sharpest rise in house prices ever recorded to now being greeted with the sharpest increase in interest rates since the 1980s. Despite this, house prices are not falling by as much or as quickly as you would expect. At this point, it is looking like we may not even get to a 10 per cent…
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National
Nerida Conisbee: Where you should have bought a decade ago
Over the past decade, the median in Sydney has increased the most. There are a lot of factors that have driven this.
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Nerida Conisbee: Australia the knockdown nation
In the 12 months to June 2022, there were more houses knocked down in Australia than ever recorded before.
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Who’s more likely to be hit by rising energy costs?
With the continued push to renewable energy and the United Nations Climate Change Summit (COP27) now on, this week we take a look at where households source energy for their homes.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Nerida Conisbee: Australia’s ghost town suburbs
Holiday homes were hot property during the pandemic, fuelled by an inability to travel internationally, high savings rates and very low mortgage rates. This, however, has become a problem and we are seeing a shortage of rental properties as a result. In the most recent Census, there were 1.04 million homes unoccupied, or around 10 per cent of all Australian…
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OPINION
Nerida Conisbee: Why getting on the property ladder is so important
A recent report from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows that today's 24 to 39 year olds are far more likely to rent than their parents at the same age.
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NEWS
Three Australian suburbs named among the world’s coolest
The world's coolest suburbs have now been named by online magazine Time Out.
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OPINION
Time use survey shows a more relaxed lifestyle in most, but not all, of regional Australia
Every 15 years, the Australian Bureau of Statistics conducts a time use survey. Around 2,000 households are given diaries to record how they spend their time.
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OPINION
What is the biggest opportunity in property right now?
There is an old piece of investment advice that specifies that you should buy when the market is down and sell when it is up.
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OPINION
How much does renovating add to the value of your home?
The level of renovation activity has slowed a little bit since the start of the year, driven by rising interest rates and difficulties in finding builders.
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OPINION
More jobs than people? Where we are set to see the worst housing shortages
For the first time ever, there are now almost as many advertised vacant jobs as there are unemployed people and the unemployment rate continues to trend downwards.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Nerida Conisbee: rent control isn’t the answer to the rental crisis
There are almost twice as many people under rental stress than those experiencing mortgage stress, with ‘stress’ defined as spending more than 30 per cent of household income on rental or mortgage payments. In the most recent Census of Population and Housing conducted in 2021, there were 915,000 households spending more than 30 per cent of their income on rental…
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Where are our most international suburbs?
The results of the 2021 Census have now been released and with it, a fascinating look at the diverse demographics of Australia. While most new arrivals to Australia come to Sydney first, it’s not then possible to easily find out where they decide to settle. The Census provides us with a deeper understanding into settlement patterns around the country. And…
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Nerida Conisbee: it looks like we are in for a busy spring
A slowing housing market can create quite different environments when it comes to the number of properties for sale.
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OPINION
Will the housing downturn be over sooner than we think?
Investors in the US have just started behaving very differently.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Offshore apartment buyers are on their way back
It has been a slow few years for offshore buyer activity in Australia.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Time to grab a bargain in our most expensive suburbs?
You may have a little bit of luck in Sydney and Melbourne, but elsewhere prestige is still recording price rises. Interest rates are on the move, prices are slowing but at a suburb level we are yet to see much evidence of widespread declines in prices. So much so that only 1.5 per cent of Australian capital city suburbs have…
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OPINION
Are we in a rental crisis or not?
Last week, June inflation came in at an eye watering 6.1 per cent, driven primarily by sharp rises in fuel prices, construction costs and furniture.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
The slowdown we had to have?
Australia's median house price increased by 32 per cent from March 2020 to December 2021, making it the fastest period of price growth we have ever experienced.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Where are you most likely to find an energy efficient home?
Energy prices are on the move and although a crisis of widespread blackouts looks to be averted for now, longer term, having an energy efficient home is going to become increasingly important. So, are we seeing more energy efficient homes? And in what suburbs are we seeing more of them?
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Nerida Conisbee: What a new Federal Government means for property
We now have a new Federal Government and with that comes change in leadership, policies and the way the country is run. The changing of the guard also comes at an interesting time for our economy and our property markets with significant change in both since the start of the year.
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INDUSTRY NEWS
Is there a better way to utilise Australia’s 13 million spare bedrooms?
Recently, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released its latest Survey of Income and Housing. One interesting piece of analysis looked at the number of spare bedrooms around Australia.
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TECH + SOCIAL
Flying cars, driverless cars and the rise of electric vehicles – what does this mean for property?
While I can't quite imagine arriving at work in a flying car in my lifetime, it may in fact be a reality in the not so distant future. There are currently hundreds of companies working on flying cars, or the less catchy term eVTOLs (electric vertical take off and landing).
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