Kyle Robbins

Rental reform is about supply v demand, not tenants v landlords

For so long, the loudest social discourse surrounding the national rental crisis has aimed to pit landlords against their tenants. But one of the nation’s leading real ...

HOTSPOTS • Wed, 13 Sep 2023

Experts warn HAFF deal no silver bullet for supply crisis

Anthony Albanese’s Labor Party struck a deal with the Greens to bring an end to the housing policy stalemate that threatened a return to the polls, with the move welcomed ...

HOTSPOTS • Wed, 13 Sep 2023

EXPLAINED: Are short-term holiday rentals killing the national housing market?

Short-term rental accommodation’s (STRA) popularity has risen rapidly in recent years, but how damaging is it for the already struggling national property market?

HOTSPOTS • Tue, 12 Sep 2023

Average home loan requires nearly 50% of Aussies’ income: Report

Both housing and rental affordability continued to worsen across Australia throughout the June quarter, according to new data from the Real Estate Institute of Australia ...

HOTSPOTS • Mon, 11 Sep 2023

Hunting affordable investing? 5 suburbs to zero in on

With Australian property values rising once more, one buyer’s agency has done the hard yards and located five areas that scream affordability.

HOTSPOTS • Sun, 10 Sep 2023

How Australia’s housing market returned to $10tn

For the first time in 14 months, Australia’s housing market is valued above $10 trillion, but what has driven this rise?

HOTSPOTS • Sun, 10 Sep 2023

Qld values remain resilient through Q2: Report

New findings from the Sunshine State’s peak real estate body suggests Queensland’s property market performed better than most other regions over the June quarter.

HOTSPOTS • Thu, 07 Sep 2023

Listings surge as spring sprouts

Following over a year of unfavourable market conditions, new data from SQM Research has revealed a flood of properties entering the market just as the spring selling ...

HOTSPOTS • Thu, 07 Sep 2023

How will the market respond to 3 successive cash rate holds?

In what was his final ever board meeting as the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor, Philip Lowe said the central bank’s decision to hold the cash rate indicates ...

HOTSPOTS • Wed, 06 Sep 2023