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Auction Market Cools The auction market is continuing to cool as Australia heads into its winter months. Last week across the combined capital cities, the preliminary auction clearance rate rose slightly from the previous week to 58.2% but remains well below results from earlier in the year. Cotality data shows national clearance rates have been […]

Commercial Property Unexpected Winner The commercial property market could be the unexpected winner out of the Federal Government's changes to capital gains tax and negative gearing. The changes mean investors will begin looking at assets with higher yields, which commercial properties generally have. JLL sales and investments director Jack O’Leary says the changes to negative […]

Fewer Car Parks = Cheaper Housing Reducing the number of car parks required in new developments could dramatically slash the price of new apartments. Analysis by the Grattan Institute says more than $1 billion is wasted on building off-street car parks that go unused. It says current rules require new housing developments to include off-street […]

Borrowers Take A Breath It’s not just investors taking a breath in the property market at the moment, with new Australian Bureau of Statistics data showing lending activity fell across the board in the past quarter. The number of new loans fell 6.2% in the March quarter, with owner-occupier loans down by 6.9% and investor […]

Short-Term Rental Takeover The number of properties being offered for short-term rental instead of permanent tenancy is continuing to rise across Australia. New research shows that Australia’s short-term rental sector grew by more than 10% over two years, putting further pressure on housing affordability, particularly in tourist hotspots and major cities. The research by the […]

Wealth In Housing After years of solid price growth across Australia’s property markets, new data shows just how big resale profits continue to be. Analysis by PropTrack shows the ten locations that achieved the highest nominal resale profit in the past 12 months. Analyst Eleanor Creagh says that resales analysis shows that the vast majority […]

March Home Approvals Plunge While building approvals took a dive in March, they are still 9% higher than at the same time last year. New Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show building approvals dropped by 10.5% between February and March, driven by a big drop in the number of units and townhouses approved. Although over […]

AI To Speed Up Approvals The Federal Budget has allocated funding for AI to be used to help speed up assessments of housing and energy projects awaiting environmental approval. It has allocated $105.9 million over four years to develop an AI tool to help with the assessments. It also commits $500 million to implement environmental […]

Hospital Boom Driving Property Markets A $160 billion hospital development boom is fuelling Australia’s next property hotspots. Fresh Start Advisory and Hotspotting’s From Wards to Wealth report shows the property markets which are set to benefit from Australia’s hospital and medical centre projects. Fresh Start Advisory CEO Frank Ambesi says there are 307 hospital and […]