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FOMO is back, demand is exploding, and price growth is accelerating, especially in secret hotspots and coastal pockets like Waikiki. From rate cuts to Airbnb tax fails, buyer booms to suburb reshaping knock-downs, this week’s headlines reveal the big forces shifting Australia’s housing market.
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The suburbs bracing for major price growth as buyer demand explodes (REA)
Surging buyer confidence fueling FOMO (REA)
Sydney suburbs where property values doubled fastest – and slowest (Domain)
Love a gourmet meal? From Bendigo to Ballarat, fancy restaurants are driving up regional house prices (Domain)
Victoria’s ‘Airbnb tax’ has failed – and unfairly targets hosts (SPI)
Investors eye Waikiki’s affordable coastal growth opportunity (SPI)
Costly retirement trap Aussies aren't talking about: 'Game has permanently changed’ (Yahoo)
Banks start passing on rate cut from today - but not for everyone (9News)
Secret areas where Aussie home prices are booming (News)
'I accept that': Abandoned train station in Sydney's east to be revived despite local outcry (9News)
Hundreds of homes for people with disability sit empty at expense of NDIS participants and investors (ABC)
Home Buyers Around the Country
Biggest home loan boom since Covid (REA)
Fixer-uppers back in demand as prices soar (REA)
How knock-down-rebuilds are reshaping suburbs (REA)
'No matter the cost': The 7 suburbs that buyers will not be swayed from, ever (Domain)
'I can’t think of another place I’d rather live and work’ (Domain)
Agent suspension exposes deep accountability problem in real estate (SPI)
Common neighbour conflict revealed after dispute over centimetres of land: 'At my expense’ (Yahoo)
I’m no NIMBY. But new housing must not give residents a raw deal (AFR)
Bargain hunters turn emotional buyers, pay $1m for entry-level house (AFR)
Gold Coast council's fast-track development plan faces community backlash (9News)
Baby Boomer ‘lies’ about homebuying ‘blown up’ (News)
Five per cent first homebuyer deposit scheme to begin in October (ABC)
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