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Battle-axe block with 600sqm of land finds buyer in three weeks after 90-day listing stall
Agent Stories

Battle-axe block with 600sqm of land finds buyer in three weeks after 90-day listing stall

After 90 days on market, a new agent, fresh timing strategy, and a database of qualified buyers delivered…

Industry News

Developers warn of project cancellations over trust tax changes

Five major industry bodies commissioned polling showing most small and medium developers expect the proposed changes to affect…

Chad Buckley's 168-day campaign secures area's first $1.5m-plus sale in nine months
Agent Stories

Chad Buckley’s 168-day campaign secures area’s first $1.5m-plus sale in nine months

Chad Buckley's adaptive approach to a challenging Bolwarra Heights campaign delivered the area's first above-$1.5m non-acreage sale in…

Industry News

House buyers still hundreds of thousands short as affordability gap shifts to dwelling type

Detached houses remain the least aligned housing type across Australia's capital cities, with new Domain research showing townhouses…

Coastal flooding risk could reshape where new housing gets built
Industry News

Coastal flooding risk could reshape where new housing gets built

Report authors say avoiding development in the highest-risk coastal areas is the least costly option, a finding with…

Sydney Affordable Suburbs Forecast to Outperform in Downturn
Industry News

Why upsizers could have the upper hand in this market

Shore Financial's Theo Chambers says buyers moving up the property ladder may gain more from negotiating a discount…

Kalley Singh's buyer intel turns three-bedroom house around in 24 hours
Agent Stories

Kalley Singh’s buyer intel turns three-bedroom house around in 24 hours

A father-and-son duo from Mill Park found exactly what they needed in just one inspection — and Kalley…

A monumental apartment tower rendered as a finished, solid structure at ground level but dissolving upward into faint architectural blueprint linework against a red-toned sky, the completed lower floors casting a single confident key-shaped shadow of light across the foreground — the promise now built before it is sold.
International

China unveils reforms to end housing presale model

Beijing has told local governments to prioritise completed-home sales and extended mortgage terms to 40 years, in a…

Sydney Moving Trends: Suburbs Gaining & Losing Residents
Industry News

What 2,930 removalist jobs say about where NSW is losing residents

A1 Removalists Sydney's data shows 301 of 556 interstate moves left NSW for Queensland and Victoria, a pattern…

NZ Property Market Data: Asking vs Actual Sales Prices Debate
International

Listing portal data clashes with sales reality as NZ property market shifts

Realestate.co.nz claims flat prices and growing choice, but top Wellington agent William Yip argues actual sale values have…

Same postcode, $493,000 apart – the difference is trees
Industry News

Green is the new gold: leafy canopy adds $237,000 to Melbourne homes

REIV's canopy study shows neighbouring suburbs like Frankston South and Frankston North diverge sharply in price, offering principals…

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Features

Why clickbait headlines and unskilled agents are spooking buyers

A Brisbane sales specialist argues skill shortages, not falling demand, are behind stalled campaigns, and explains why owner-occupiers…

Anne Flaherty, senior economist at realestate.com.au said rental vacancy rates rose nationally to 1.5% in July. Image: Supplied/Lois
Industry News

Vacancies climb to four-year high as renter instability persists

Rental stock improved in July for the first time in years, but new research shows tenant families –…

Hotspotting Managing Director Tim Graham warns that “cheap doesn’t mean investable”. Image: Supplied/Lois
Industry News

Why cheap and investable are not the same suburb

Hotspotting's managing director explains the fundamentals separating genuine growth prospects from suburbs that are simply low priced, across…

Ray White WA honours top performers amid market shift warning
Franchise News

Ray White WA honours top performers

CEO Mark Whiteman used the network's annual awards night to congratulate its top performers while warning that listings…

Home purchases by foreign investors down 22%. Image: Lois
Industry News

What the new foreign buyer rules mean for your market

Extended purchase bans, tripled FIRB fees and a 30% capital gains tax rate are reshaping offshore demand, with…

Regional housing values hold firm against capital city falls as city buyers flock to non-metropolitan hubs in search of affordability. Image: Deposit Photos/Lois
Industry News

Affordable regional hubs cushion Australian property downturn as capital city exodus hits record high

Net migration from capital cities to the regions hit an all-time high in the March quarter, with Sydney…

Homes in Glasgow sell three times faster than the UK average - making the Scottish city the fastest selling in Britain. Image: Deposit Photos
International

Correct pricing on day one is beating three months of discounting

New Alto data shows Glasgow homes agree a sale in just 11 days, with the company's CEO pointing…

PropTrack Economist Luc Redman says strong entry-level demand has protected most low-deposit buyers from negative equity. Image: Supplied/Lois
Industry News

Regional first-home buyers under 5% deposit scheme post double-digit equity gains

Fewer than 0.2% of the 48,000 households using the expanded scheme sit in negative equity, with outback Queensland…

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People Moves

Tony Chen joins Knight Frank’s Western Sydney investment sales team

The Senior Sales Executive brings more than 11 years of experience across development sites, office, retail and mixed-use…

Long-term renters are increasingly treating leased properties as permanent homes, driving demand for modular and multi-use furnishings as homeownership falls to a 30-year low of 62.7 per cent nationwide. Image: Lois
Industry News

Renting for life is now the plan, not the fallback, for many tenants

Modelling cited in the report suggests almost half of younger Australian households will still be renting privately past…

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Celebrity Homes

Singer Lynsey de Paul’s former London home hits the market

The South Hampstead villa where the singer-songwriter entertained a string of celebrity friends is for sale for the…

Major banks have revised their Greater Sydney property forecasts downward for 2026 amid tighter borrowing conditions, though long-term fundamentals are expected to pave the way for market stabilisation in 2027. Image: Lois
Industry News

Major banks reveal incoming price drop timelines

The market has reacted faster than expected to negative gearing and capital gains tax changes, but a recovery…

Local market expert Matthew Makin (Director, Woodards Sunbury & Macedon Ranges) has seen buyer demand for family homes with backyard space push local annual growth to 4.3 per cent, significantly outperforming the broader Melbourne market. Image: Supplied/Lois
Industry News

Sunbury emerges as one of Melbourne’s stand-out growth suburbs amid auction rebound

While Melbourne dwelling values fell 2.8 per cent over the year, Sunbury grew 4.3 per cent as buyers…

Ray White Group economist Atom Go Tian. Image: Supplied/Lois
International

NZ’s million-dollar suburb tally spreads beyond Auckland and Wellington

New Ray White Group analysis shows the next wave of $1 million suburbs will emerge in Central Otago,…

Features

The leaders’ ledger: Real estate CEOs reveal the challenges, opportunities and decisions shaping the future

A comprehensive directory of Australia’s top real estate leaders, featuring exclusive insights from select agency CEOs on AI…

"Statistics explain what is happening. People explain why." - Harcourts Australia CEO Adrian Knowles on the upcoming National Census. Image: Supplied/Lois
Industry News

What the census really tells us about Australia’s housing market

Behind shifts in homeownership, mortgages, and multi-generational living, the upcoming count reveals the personal human decisions driving the…

OzHarvest driver with Urban's Trent Brewer. Image supplied
Franchise News

Urban Real Estate donates 1,000+ items to OzHarvest

Every Urban Real Estate office across New South Wales turned into a collection point last month, with staff…

Collage of a newsstand stacked with property newspapers beside a hand holding a photo of a modern home, with more listing photos spilling from a smartphone
AI

21 reasons to send a press release – and the part AI still can’t do

Publicity wins listings, attracts good people, and builds a record you can't buy. The 21 moments worth pitching…

Mansour Soltani, Head of Research. Our Top 10. Image: Supplied
Industry News

Over 52,000 extra Aussie homes plunge into mortgage stress as financial squeeze hits blue-chip suburbs

Nationwide housing crunch escalates as cash flow deficits spread far beyond outer growth corridors

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Industry News

Market resilience: 85% of suburbs post price gains despite 2026 headwinds

New realestate.com.au data shows house prices have grown in 85 per cent of Australian suburbs over the past…

Segro turns down Prologis' latest £13.5B takeover offer, betting big on its long-term European portfolio and AI data centre pipeline. Image: Lois
International

Prologis vs Segro: The $18 billion standoff over Europe’s prime commercial real estate

The UK warehouse landlord says the US logistics giant's latest offer still undervalues its portfolio, as a British…

High-yield townhouse and terrace developments like this remain effectively banned across vast swathes of Australia’s 20km CBD rings. Image: Getty
Industry News

The 20km ring lockdown: What Australia’s new zoning map means for your listing strategy

A new nationwide atlas finds three-quarters of residential land near capital city centres is locked to detached houses…

A vast official document lies open on a dark desk with its signature line conspicuously blank, yet from its bottom edge a neat grid of small suburban rooftops is already fanning out across the surface, the law taking physical form without anyone's hand touching the pen resting untouched beside it.
International

US housing law takes effect without Trump’s signature

The largest federal housing package in more than three decades passed into law without a presidential signature, after…

The commercial sector faces dual challenges as business groups warn WFH legislation could permanently alter office occupancy levels and corporate leasing structures. Image: Getty/Lois
Industry News

New data reveals WFH laws risk driving jobs and investment out of Victoria

Peak business groups demand urgent changes to the proposed Work from Home Bill as new data reveals surging…