Australian Property

Australia’s governments want to ‘solve’ the housing crisis by pushing Australians into high-rise apartments.

Cotality has released alarming data showing that Australia’s rental market is tightening fast.

As the debate over migration continues both on social media and in the halls of power, myths surrounding its impact on housing continue to propagate.

According to Domain, Australian home values are soaring at the lower end of the market, putting immense strain on affordability for first home buyers.

This month’s Australian Financial Review property summit contained the usual bluster on the need to lift Australia’s housing supply to meet demand.

Leading Sydney auctioneer and agent Tom Panos has issued a warning for Australian home buyers.

The Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) interest rate cuts alongside the imminent introduction of the Albanese government’s 5% deposit scheme for first home buyers have triggered a sharp uptick in Australian home prices.

I have consistently cautioned that the state and federal governments’ plans to blanket our cities with high-rise apartments will not improve housing affordability.

When Australia’s international borders reopened in early 2022, the nation was already well in the midst of a rental crisis.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) this week released data on Australia’s residential housing stock, which was valued at a record $11.6 trillion in the second quarter of 2025, equivalent to $1,017,000 per dwelling.

The Financial Review property summit was held last week, which contained the usual bluster on the need to lift Australia’s housing supply to meet demand.

Seriously, who would want to be a renter in Australia? After borders reopened in late 2021 and temporary migrants flooded into Australia in record volumes, rents surged. At the end of 2024, Cotality (now CoreLogic) estimated that rental payments were chewing up a record share of household income.

Broadcaster Kel Richards has lamented the “tragic” death of the Australian backyard in a segment on Sky News.

Last month, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) lowered the official cash rate (OCR) by 0.25% to 3.60%.

Australia’s housing market continues to heat up.

Westpac has released its monthly Housing Pulse, which reports a “discernible shift in Australia’s housing market”, with buyers “perking up”, price growth lifting, auction clearance rates rising, and supply tightening.

When it comes to the Albanese government and the issue of housing, there are two very different approaches taken.

Australia’s home building sector appears to be one giant contradiction.

The 2025 federal election campaign saw both sides of politics cynically propose policies to pump homebuyer demand and prices.

The latest dwelling value results from PropTrack show that Melbourne continues to lag the other major capital cities for price growth.