Australian Property

On Monday, I spoke to Ben Davis on Brisbane Radio 4BC Mornings to unpack the housing policies announced by Labor and the Coalition over the weekend.

Steve Austin from ABC Radio Brisbane interviewed me about the Greens’ housing spokesman Max Chandler-Mather’s claim that immigration does not negatively impact housing affordability.

I have warned repeatedly that Australian housing affordability will not improve by blanketing our cities with high-rise apartments, as planned by state and federal governments.

Over the weekend, we saw both sides of politics ‘jump the shark’ on housing policy.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released data on permanent and long-term arrivals and departures to Australia last week.

The Albanese government is primed to win the upcoming federal election, with all recent opinion polls showing them leading the Coalition on a two-party preferred basis.

On Wednesday, the Australian Greens announced that the abolition of negative gearing and the capital gains tax (CGT) discount will be a priority in a minority government.

Sydney’s housing market is losing momentum.

While Australia’s mainstream media and the university and property lobbies continue to lie about the impacts of immigration on the rental market, Canada has provided a dose of reality.

The Australian National University (ANU) is one of the nation’s key purveyors of immigration propaganda.

The cognitive dissonance of the Grattan Institute is a sight to behold.

Money.com has released research suggesting “there could be more pain ahead for renters”. Money.com points to analysis of Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Consumer Price Index (CPI) data showing that rents have risen by 14.2% over the past two years — more than double the overall inflation rate of 6.6%.

Justin Fabo from Antipodean Macro has published interesting charts showing how Australians continue to pay some of the highest mortgage rates in the world.

The latest data from the Department of Education shows that a record 1.095 million international students were enrolled in Australia at the end of 2024.

Tom Elliott from Radio 3AW outlined multiple reasons why he believes Australian home prices will boom amid the fallout from the Trump administration’s trade war.

Sydney is the ultimate city of housing “haves” and “have-nots,” of housing millionaires and paupers.

On Thursday, Australian time, the Trump Administration announced its “Liberation Day” retaliatory tariffs, which impose tariffs of between 10% and 48% on trading partners.

On Thursday, Australian time, the Trump Administration announced its “Liberation Day” retaliatory tariffs, which impose tariffs of between 10% and 48% on trading partners.

Momentum in Australia’s housing market has waned following the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) 0.25% interest rate cut in February.

This week, the Housing Industry Association (HIA) released data on new house sales, which continued to disappoint.

The YIMBY movement claims that the leading solution to Australia’s housing affordability crisis is to rezone our suburbs for high-rise apartment developments.

Grattan Institute CEO, Aruna Sathanapally, told ABC’s Q&A that Australia’s failure to build enough housing was “at the heart of our economic problems”: “We can see that the wealth of higher-income Australians or higher-wealth Australians has turbocharged, particularly due to housing prices.

The federal government’s housing accord commenced on 1 July 2024 and aims to construct 1.2 million dwellings over five years, equivalent to 20,000 homes per month. On Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released dwelling approvals data, which revealed that 15,400 homes were approved for construction in February, 4,600 (23%) below the target.