Fixed Rate Drop Begins The first of Australia’s big banks has moved to drop fixed interest rates a month ahead of the Reserve Bank of Australia’s first meeting of 2025. This week Macquarie Bank dropped its one-year fixed rate from 5.85% to 5.69%. Both of its two-year and three-year fixed rates have been dropped at […]
Where Listings Are Lifting Listings are starting to lift with some locations now at higher levels since the start of the pandemic, according to PropTrack analysis. Its latest listings report says there is a 7.9% increase nationally in listings between 2023 and 2024 – the strongest year since 2021. PropTrack director of economic research Cameron
Price Growth Continues Australia’s house prices have chalked up eight consecutive quarters of growth. Domain’s latest House Price Report shows the December quarter results make it the longest period of uninterrupted quarterly growth since between 2012 and 2015. It was also the seventh consecutive quarter of unit price growth. During the December quarter, Brisbane’s median
Investors Keen To Buy in 2025 Investors are keener to buy in 2025 than they have been since mid-2022, according to API Magazine’s latest Property Sentiment Report. It says 30% of respondents intend to buy in the next 12 months and the majority (65%) of those are investors. The report says investors believe 2025 is
Vacancies Rising Australia’s extremely tight vacancy rate has eased slightly, with new data now putting it at 1.9%. Despite the increase, up from 1.8% in October 2024, CoreLogic’s Quarterly Rental Review says all capital city markets remain below the 3% vacancy rate which represents a balanced market. The tightest vacancy rate is 1.1% in Adelaide,
Buyers Finally in Favour In Some Cities Property prices may remain high, but changes in some key fundamentals are now helping it to swing toward a buyer’s market in some locations. CoreLogic head of research Tim Lawless says price growth (the national average) has eased, listings are up and purchasing activity is down, theoretically creating
Where Supply Is Low A new report reveals the 25 Australian locations where supply is so low the only way for prices to go is up. The report by InvestorKit analyses 330 regions and shows Australia’s 25 most undersupplied markets are spread across Western Australia, South Australia and Queensland. InvestorKit founder Arjun Paliwal, says that
Building Slows: Housing Target Failure Building approvals eased toward the end of 2024, with new Australian Bureau of Statistic figures showing approvals in November are down by 3.6% on the previous month. The latest data, released in January, shows drops in all residential building types – and confirms Australia is well short of the level
Investors Needed To End Shortage Crisis Attracting more investors to the property market is what will help ease Australia’s housing crisis, according to new research. The analysis by the Property Investment Professionals of Australia (PIPA) and the Property Investors Council of Australia (PICA), says there is a shortage of property investors, with tens of thousands
Rents Rising But Growth Rate Eases Rents across Australia continue to grow but are growing at their slowest pace in more than three years, according to new analysis by the REA group. Nationally rents rose by 6.9% over 2024, compared with 11.5% growth in 2023. REA Group senior economist Paul Ryan says advertised rents in
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