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Auction volumes are rising, but buyer confidence is wavering as rate hike fears return and early cracks appear in Sydney and Melbourne.
Investors are navigating policy uncertainty, mortgage stress hotspots, and tightening affordability, while buyers face tougher lending conditions and growing default risks.
This week’s headlines point to a market at a turning point.
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Home Buyers Around the Country
‘Just the beginning’: Sydney house prices fall as buyers step back (AFR)
Labor auction laws could make Melbourne buyers pay more (REA)
Retirees forced to make risky mortgage move amid cost-of-living pressure: 'Surge in demand' (Yahoo)
‘Younger retirees’ drive surge in reverse mortgage demand (ABN)
Sad bank ‘fix’ costing Aussies $157k (News)
WA tops house-building rankings, but supply pressures persist (SPI)
Building a future-proofed community for over-55s (Domain)
Victorian homebuyers take biggest mortgage gamble to enter market (REA)
Treehouse retreat reveals the secret to indoor-outdoor living (News)
Australia's happiest residents revealed (Domain)
Earning $100k? You can’t afford to live alone (News)
Government’s first-home buyer scheme outpaced by spiking population (REA)
Sydney suburbs pushed to the brink by rate hikes (News)
No pool, no deal: The backyard feature that buyers can't resist in this suburb (Domain)
Housing targets at risk in NSW (ABN)
Default risks grow for first home buyers with 5pc deposit (AFR)
Investors
‘Definitely tough’: Sydney’s resilient properties amid auction slump (REA)
Auction volumes surge but buyers cautious as rate rise looms (AFR)
‘Everyone’s scared’: Aus home prices sad fall (News)
Superannuation tipped to be spared in CGT change as Federal Budget goes 'further than expected' (Yahoo)
Vic’s mortgage stress hotspots revealed ahead of RBA meeting (REA)
Vanishing sub-$600k units spark off-market scramble in Brisbane (SPI)
‘Uncomfortable truth’: Sydney and NSW’s worst real estate markets revealed (News)
Surprise city set to overtake Sydney as Australia's most expensive unit market (Domain)
Federal Budget move to pull ladder up on share investors is a 'betrayal of younger generation' (Yahoo)
Which Aussie suburbs have every household in financial stress (REA)
Price down: The first cracks appear in Sydney and Melbourne’s property surge (SPI)
ANZ profit climbs in first half (ABN)
Property boom shows first crack as offers plunge 50pc (REA)
Why Australian property prices could go backwards by 2030 (AFR)
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