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Australia’s property market is entering a more measured phase.

Buyers and investors are pressing pause, auction clearance rates are sliding, and tougher selling conditions are emerging in key markets.

Yet the slowdown isn’t everywhere.

Select suburbs continue to outperform, units are attracting renewed interest, and investors are adapting to a more disciplined market shaped by tax changes, affordability pressures, and shifting buyer priorities.

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Auction Clearance Rates

Home Buyers Around the Country

  • Granny flat demand surges across the state during ongoing housing crisis (REA)

  • 30,000 new homes by 2030: How the new ACT budget affects new builds and buyers (AllHomes)

  • Rate rises and tax shake-up see buyers pivot to units in 4 cities (SPI)

  • Aussie couple's warning after 50km sacrifice when buying first home: 'Couldn't afford' (Yahoo)

  • Owner-occupiers snag $1.325m apartment as investors fade away (AFR)

  • First-home buyers ‘failing to fill the void’ as tax threat hits confidence (REA)

  • Australia's property markets powered by pride (Domain)

  • Home buyers demand human expertise in AI property shift (SPI)

  • 65pc of Aussies say home ownership dream is broken (News)

  • Why fixing your mortgage rate now could be a costly financial mistake (REA)

  • The interest rate hold comes with a catch (Domain)

  • Retirement warning as living inheritance trend takes off in Australia: 'Helps nobody' (Yahoo)

  • How flood risk elevated this home to an award winner in the trees (AFR)

  • Affordability crunch pushes homeownership further out of reach (ABN)

  • Perth power couple snap up WA’s most expensive home of the year (Domain)

  • Sydney home prices sink back to 2021 levels (News)

Investors

  • Melbourne homeowners warned to expect tougher selling conditions (REA)

  • The suburbs and coastal towns proving the property slowdown isn't everywhere (Domain)

  • ‘Calculative and deliberate’: Investing enters more disciplined era after tax shake-up (SPI)

  • Property market hit by buyers' strike as investors, first home buyers press pause (ABC)

  • Auction clearance rates expected to hit 40pc, lowest in years (AFR)

  • Sydney suburb with worst property loss over decade (News)

  • Property Council: Tax package still threatens housing supply (ABN)

  • Sydney auctions: new reality for vendors (REA)

  • Cash rate hold strengthens investor strategy window (SPI)

  • Property investment has changed. Has your support system? (RayWhite)

  • Opal Tower finally defect-free, and one sale even manages a profit (AFR)

  • Missed the boom? 25 suburbs experts are backing next (News)

  • Secluded bushland home scores Highton’s biggest sale of the year (REA)

  • Australia's toughest property market: Just 9 out of 683 suburbs and towns fell in value (Domain)

  • Landlords to save money on value-add constructions (SPI)

  • Is the property market holding its breath? (RayWhite)

  • NAB breaks new ground with conversational AI data tool (ABN)

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