RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY
AUSTRALIA’S housing market is set for “a year of two halves” in 2025, with a mid-year interest rate cut to reverse a weak first-half performance and spark price growth...
Domain is expecting prices to keep rising in 2025, though at a slower pace, due to affordability pressures and more buyer options as more listings come to the market...
With core inflation holding high, labour markets holding tight, and rising geopolitical risk, hopes for a rate cut early in the new year have been pushed back further and further...
That is a much slower rate of growth compared to what we saw in 2024. We’re likely to see weaker price outcomes in the first half. We could see a citywide reduction over the...
And what that’s created is value is building up over time. I think that what we’re likely to start seeing is those owner occupiers that are local to Melbourne will be realising that now is...
Perth is again forecast to lead national growth, with another 8% to 10% increase, putting it close to a median house price of $1 million. Brisbane (up by 5% to 7%) and Adelaide...
High mortgage rates and soaring prices have driven housing affordability to its worst level on record, as Australians work overtime, take on second jobs, and...
SQM Research’s latest Boom & Bust report offered a base case strong population growth, no inflationary outbreak and up to two interest cuts, which it said...
Eleanor Creagh, REA Group’s senior economist told Australian Property Journal last week that PropTrack is expecting that home prices are going to continue to lift in...
Housing supply a key election battleground
That undersupply of has been one of those key forces that has driven prices higher over 2024. And that rising price has happened during a significant period of financial uncertainty
Labor’s housing policy has hinged on the National Housing Accord, which aims to deliver 1.2 million “well-located” homes over five years amid a national housing crisis that has...
Labor has had recent wins in Parliament, with its Help to Buy scheme and build-to-rent developer tax concessions both passing through the Senate. Negotiations with Greens forced..
An election itself doesn’t necessarily influence the housing market or change people’s decisions to buy and sell. What changes people’s decisions are the key housing policies, which will...
People change their decisions based upon the prospect of a policy change. It does depend upon what’s on the table at the time.