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Sea-change buyers are splashing cash, refinancing is fuelling a $115bn loan surge, and affordable suburbs are racing ahead on rate-cut optimism.
But flood risks, land shrinkflation, and supply shortfalls are complicating the outlook.
Meanwhile, first-home buyers are pivoting to townhouses, modular builds, and creative windfalls as affordability pressure intensifies.
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Home Buyers Around the Country
Fresh warning as build prices soar off 16.5pc copper spike (REA)
Forget the quarter-acre block: Townhouses are the new housing-ladder goal (Domain)
Parents ‘outsource’ first-home hunt as market turns brutal (ABN)
Land prices surge as demand outstrips supply in red-hot market (REA)
How first home buyers are getting a $79,000 windfall without help from parents (Domain)
Dodgy tradie on the loose: Sydney home owners warned about unlicensed builder (SPI)
Rates shock: Fresh clues from RBA hint at further hikes (REA)
This is what $90k will get you in Australia's housing market (Domain)
Sydney and Melbourne’s luxury home markets fall behind as Brisbane, Adelaide boom (REA)
Homeownership hopes fade as costs bite and borrowing power shrinks (ABN)
Hidden costs of downsizing leaving some Boomers worse off (REA)
How much debt households had when interest rates were 17 per cent, compared to now (Domain)
This regional city is looking to a modular solution for the housing crisis (ABC)
Government causing ‘artificial’ land demand behind Aus housing crisis (REA)
Investors
The sea-change hotspot where property buyers are splashing cash (Domain)
Build-to-rent tax relief on the table for WA investors (SPI)
Rate cuts supercharge prices in affordable suburbs as RBA path turns uncertain (ABN)
Land prices have risen by more than 500 per cent since 2000 (ABC)
Fight for stock to intensify amid tree-change migration (SPI)
Land shrinkflation hits Sydney as blocks shrink, prices double (REA)
Byron Bay has shed $412,500 from its peak price – is this normal? (Domain)
Can young investors still build property portfolios in 2026? (SPI)
Investors, refi boom drive $115bn surge in home loans: Money.com.au (ABN)
Flood zone the 'elephant in the room' in Brisbane's house price boom (ABC)
Named and shamed: The state ranked worst for housing supply (Domain)
Aussie property investors warned of common mistake as rates set to climb: 'Become unsustainable' (Yahoo)
How cutting the CGT discount could help rebalance housing market (FirstLinks)
ColCap Financial prices record $2.7 billion non-bank RMBS (ABN)
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