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Are we in a property boom, a bust, or a normal market?

Elizabeth Redman| 30 May 2022| Domain Australia house prices: After the property boom, what is a normal real estate market? (smh.com.au) The property market has weakened since last autumn’s boom, but with plenty of competition around for the most outstanding homes, agents say it has turned into a more normal market. So what is a […]

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The property type defying the downturn, for now

Kate Burke| Domain| 20 June 2022 Australia house prices: The property type defying the downturn, for now (smh.com.au) Property prices for cheaper homes are holding up the best in Sydney and Melbourne’s cooling markets, while affordable homes are seeing the strongest growth in most other cities. Less expensive properties outperformed their pricier counterparts over the […]

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Swapping stamp duty for land tax would push down house prices but push up apartment prices, new modelling finds

Jason Nassios & James Giesecke| The Conversation| 20 June 2022 Swapping stamp duty for land tax would push down house prices but push up apartment prices, new modelling finds (theconversation.com) In Tuesday’s budget, NSW will announce a switch from stamp duty to land tax. It will become the second Australian jurisdiction to do so, with the […]

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Domain Spotlight Report – New South Wales

Domain Research| 23 June 2022 Domain Spotlight Report – New South Wales It’s no secret that the NSW property market is the priciest in Australia, and Sydney competes on a global scale as one of the world’s most expensive cities in which to purchase a home. Though you’ll be hard-pressed to match the lifestyle and […]

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The housing game has changed – interest rate hikes hurt more than before

Joey Moloney and Breandan Coates| The Conversation| 7 June 2022 The housing game has changed – interest rate hikes hurt more than before (theconversation.com) The Reserve Bank has lifted the cash rate for the second time in two months, this time by 0.50 points to 0.85%. It won’t be the last such hike. Forecasters expect […]

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NSW to introduce ‘shared equity’ scheme to boost home ownership

Phoebe Loomes| New Daily| 19 June 2022 NSW to introduce ‘shared equity’ scheme to boost home ownership (thenewdaily.com.au) Frontline workers and singles over 50 will receive “a leg up” into the NSW property market, with the state government to introduce a shared equity housing scheme in this week’s budget. Premier Dominic Perrottet says housing affordability is […]

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Good luck forecasting house prices, but one worm has turned

Michael Pascoe| The New Daily| 4 December 2018 there’s no praise or notice for saying what “everybody else” is saying. This leads to the outlier forecasts, the predictions above or below the consensus. These are the ones most likely to get the forecaster’s name in the newspaper and, thus, there is a temptation to go a […]

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Revealed: The Regional Boomtowns Where Home Prices Are Soaring

Isabelle Lane| The New Daily| 28 November 2018 As the property downturn deepens in Sydney and Melbourne, investors are turning their attention to once-ignored regional markets, with one town standing out among the pack of top performers. No longer in Melbourne’s shadow, the Victorian port city of Geelong is the nation’s best performing regional market, according to a new report […]

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Property price falls trigger buyer’s remorse, but long-term perspective is needed

Isabelle Lane| The New Daily|4 December 2018 A survey of 1500 current and prospective home buyers by home loan lender ME found home owners who bought their properties in the past year were significantly more worried about the impact of prices falling than those who had bought three or more years ago. Almost half (46 per cent) of those who […]

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Capital city land price boom continues

Pete Wargent BlogSpot\ 23 October 2018 http://petewargent.blogspot.com/2018/10/land-price-boom-continues.html Land prices up another 16 per cent Property transaction volumes have been crippled in recent months. But one key dynamic has not changed. The capital cities continue to create hundreds of thousands of the most favourable employment opportunities…and there still ain’t any more well-located land. Capital city vacant […]

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First home buyers at highest level in 8 years

Rebecca Pike| Australian Broker| 26 October 2018 https://www.brokernews.com.au/news/breaking-news/first-home-buyers-at-highest-level-in-8-years-256609.aspx Lending to first home buyers has grown by 74% in Sydney in the last year, according to a report released this week. QBE’s Australian Housing Outlook 2018-2021 also looks at property price prediction and expects house prices to grow over the next three years, apart from in […]

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Property Experts Slam 60 Minutes Housing Crash Scaremongering

Isabelle Lane| The New Daily| 17 September https://thenewdaily.com.au/money/property/2018/09/17/housing-crash-60-minutes/ A television report alleging Australian home prices could crash by as much as 40 per cent in the next year has been slammed by property experts. Titled “Bricks and Slaughter”, the 60 Minutes report by journalist Tom Steinfort focused on a “nightmare” scenario outlined by Digital Finance Analytics principal Martin North. It predicted “two-fifths of your home’s […]

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