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From regional SA's red-hot growth to suburbs racking up $562k in just 90 days, this week’s headlines uncover big investor wins and growing first-home buyer hurdles.

As house prices surge and spring competition heats up, expert strategies, market insights, and new warnings reveal where we’re headed next.

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Home Buyers Around the Country

  • Revealed: The hidden cost crushing first-home buyer dreams (REA)

  • ‘First-home buyer comeback’ set to dominate Vic spring market (REA)

  • From $400k flats to $40m mansions: This suburb proves opposites really do attract (Domain)

  • Buyers think it’s a better time to buy a house now. Experts disagree (Domain)

  • First-home buyers to compete with investors in tough spring selling season (Domain)

  • Average FHB can only afford 17% of Australian homes (SPI)

  • Market moves: First home buyers get inventive (SPI)

  • Aussie dad reveals devastating family impact of another eviction as renters 'live in fear' (Yahoo)

  • Adelaide overtakes Sydney as the toughest market for first home buyers (ABC)

  • ‘Take action’: How to score a double rate cut right now (News)

  • Housing failure fuels growing fear among Aussies (News)

Investors

  • Regional SA leading home value growth with 95pc gain in five years (REA)

  • Where homes are being built now to cater to Australia’s future jobs growth (REA)

  • The sea-change towns where property prices fell most from their peak (Domain)

  • Insane moneymakers: The suburbs where prices went up $562,000 in 90 days (Domain)

  • How to win an auction, even if you don’t have the most money (Domain)

  • How to make the most of your investments with portfolio reviews (SPI)

  • From migrant to multimillion-dollar real estate expert: How one man cracked the property code (SPI)

  • RBA's grim warning on future interest rate cuts as Australians spend big: 'Stronger than we thought' (Yahoo)

  • Shock year when $3.5m Sydney homes will be norm (News)

  • Revealed: The cities where house prices will soar by 2026 (News)

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