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Hotspots • 28 FEB 2025

Geraldton tops WA regional centres for quarterly price growth: REIWA

Geraldton emerged as the top-performing regional centre over the last quarter of 2024, with the market running hot off the top of strong price growth and persistent...

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Tax & Legal • 28 FEB 2025

Super access for first homes, $5bn for ‘stalled housing projects’: Coalition delivers budget in reply

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton has vowed to boost funding for stalled housing projects and implement large-scale cuts to Australia’s immigration intake during his...

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Investor Strategy • 27 FEB 2025

Gender gap: Women under-represented in investment property

While home ownership in Australia is now relatively equal between genders, women are still under-represented in investment property, highlighting a persistent “gender...

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Finance • 27 FEB 2025

Mortgage stress soars off the back of affordability challenges: Domain

New research has found that rates of mortgage stress have increased across the capital cities, with repayments for an entry-priced home in Sydney now requiring 57.6 per...

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Hotspots • 26 FEB 2025

Ipswich named South-East Queensland’s most affordable land

With attractive prices, steady land supply and growing infrastructure, Ipswich has been named South-East Queensland’s most affordable destination for new land buyers....

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Investor Strategy • 25 FEB 2025

New homes sales increase in January

Sales of new homes across the country increased by 4.1 per cent in January 2025, with NSW, South Australia and Queensland driving the growth.

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Investor Strategy • 25 FEB 2025

NSW vacancy rates fluctuate in January

Vacancy rates across NSW varied in January, but the Real Estate Institute of NSW reported that rental vacancies remain at critical levels.

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Investor Strategy • 24 FEB 2025

Nearly 40% of Australians experience buyer’s remorse

Not looking for faults, scarifying bedroom numbers, going over budget or not buying into a central location were the top regrets for property buyers, according to a new...

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Investor Strategy • 21 FEB 2025

To invest or not: Why now is not the right time to return to the Melbourne market

While some investors are seeing a rebound in the Victorian market, two Melbourne buyer advocates warn interstate investors that now is not the right time to return to...

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Finance • 21 FEB 2025

Over 50 lenders to pass rate cut in full

More than 50 lenders, including the “big four”, have announced plans to cut variable home loan rates by 0.25 percentage points following the Reserve Bank of...