Feb 21, 2025

One of the most significant housing stories in the past year has slipped under the radar of news media, with very little commentary.

The latest official data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows that it now costs over $500,000 to build the average house in this country. That’s the cost of construction...

Feb 14, 2025

Price data for Sydney provides a striking example of why it’s so important not to generalise about property markets.

According to the big-name research sources, Sydney prices grew only a few percent overall in the past 12 months, but individual precincts within Greater Sydney have recorded price growth at boom...

Feb 11, 2025

The trend we have dubbed the Exodus to Affordable Lifestyle is one the key reasons we expect Regional NSW to deliver strong residential property markets in 2025.

The trend, of course, is not new – with big cities like Sydney losing population to internal migration for the past 10 years.

But the trend remains...

Feb 10, 2025

Prospects for strong buyer demand in 2025 look good, with the latest data released by the Reserve Bank indicating a significant rise in loans for home buyers, investors and businesses.

This challenges earlier predictions of a slowdown by economists, who continue to be obsessed with interest rates as the big factor...

Feb 5, 2025

Hotspotting has been forecasting, recently, changes in the pecking order of price growth among the major markets of Australia – and the latest research data confirms it.

Regional real estate and apartment markets are the out-performers in the latest figures from CoreLogic – which also show that Perth is no longer...