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Australia’s housing market has reached another milestone, with property values now worth more than the economies of some countries.

Yet rising rate fears, policy debates around CGT, and affordability pressures are reshaping buyer behaviour.

Investors are hunting overlooked opportunities from equity plays to mid-priced suburbs while first-home buyers are rewriting the rules to get into the market.

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Home Buyers Around the Country

  • Bays West development to create new Sydney suburb larger than regional towns (REA)

  • ‘Fear and anxiety’ grip auction market (AFR)

  • Sydney auctions amid rate hike concerns (REA)

  • Melbourne buyers flee to Geelong for $500k homes (REA)

  • Interest rate backflip: Big banks tip rate hikes in March and May (Domain)

  • Calls for all Aussie states to follow granny flat move as Bunnings flat packs spark major shake up (Yahoo)

  • A $500,000 mortgage at 55: Millennials face grim retirement (AFR)

  • Who will buy this $5.5m passive house? (AFR)

  • What this $4.6m sale tells us about the downsizing market (AFR)

  • Can Australia learn from one of the most liveable cities in the world (REA)

  • Perth house with ‘sentimental’ secret hits the market for first time in decades (Domain)

  • Rising oil price and inflation fears make rate hike likely (ABC)

  • Three ways to prepare for the next rate hike (News)

  • Why buyers will travel 500km to buy a city home before they’re priced out (REA)

  • It's got missing walls and cordoned off stairs, but buyers still want this century-old cottage (Domain)

  • Building and pest reports to be mandatory with home owners to foot bill (ABC)

  • New research shows next rate hike will lock thousands out of home ownership (REA)

  • New property rule in Aussie state to end price secrecy that is 'inflating' house prices (Yahoo)

  • 5 mistakes keeping Aussies from owning homes (News)

  • First-home buyers rewrite the rules as flexible pathways surge (ABN)

Investors

  • The cheapest properties in Melbourne's most expensive suburbs (Domain)

  • CGT shake-up: Why manufactured cash flow strategies may come back (SPI)

  • Best day to sell SA homes at auction revealed (REA)

  • Held collectively for over 230 years, these five rare homes are finally going to auction (Domain)

  • The underused equity play available to older Australians (SPI)

  • Units or houses? The great buyer dilemma (SPI)

  • Where Sydney home prices have doubled in the past five years (REA)

  • This capital city has 70 suburbs with a median house price under 750k – can you guess which one? (Domain)

  • Young buyers capitalise on cost-saving offset accounts (SPI)

  • The Aussie suburbs that overwhelmingly enjoy the benefits of CGT discount: 'Give it back' (Yahoo)

  • Why almost all of Brisbane's new apartment builds are 'luxury’ (ABC)

  • New record: Aussie homes now worth more than entire countries (News)

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