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As affordability tightens, rentvesting is gaining traction while investors enjoy decade-high profits and chase emerging hotspots from Bendigo to coastal pockets.

But rate fears, policy debates, and cooling signals in key markets are keeping sentiment on edge.

For home buyers, competition is intensifying, AI advice is raising risks, and the path to ownership is stretching further.

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Home Buyers Around the Country

  • The great squeeze: Qld’s housing crisis forces families under one roof (REA)

  • FHBs spark rapid property value rise (SPI)

  • Great Australian Dream still alive – but the path is stretching (ABN)

  • Melbourne's mysterious and boarded up property being sold sight unseen – without keys (Domain)

  • Home buyers warned AI property advice could cost them thousands (REA)

  • Warning for off the plan homes purchases as construction delays leave buyer 'living in her car' (Yahoo)

  • Apartment buyers in failed $2.7b project want deposits back (AFR)

  • Housing developer Assemble slashes number of promised affordable homes (ABC)

  • The ‘new Fitzroy’ attracting Melbourne home buyers (Domain)

  • First-home buyer scheme heats up competition at entry level (ABN)

  • Why aspiring home owners cannot move into brand new homes (ABC)

  • Bunnings’ bold move to slash homeowner bills (News)

  • How one Sydney growth corridor is reshaping family living (REA)

  • Is Castle Hill changing for better or worse? Locals are split (Domain)

  • With water on three sides, Brisbane's New Farm is a magnet for homeowners (Domain)

  • Unliveable Melbourne house fetches $680,000 above reserve (AFR)

Investors

  • Expensive suburbs push buyers to rentvesting property trend – but it can make you an extra $1.1 million (Yahoo)

  • Westpac doubles down on fixed hikes as RBA looms (ABN)

  • ‘They just keep buying’: The city that’s defying the downturn (AFR)

  • Markets remain on alert following NAB warning (ABN)

  • Tiny property creates buzz in premium pocket (REA)

  • Real estate investment profits hit decade high (News)

  • How Melbourne buyers can get bigger Toorak mansions for less (AFR)

  • BOQ loan book shrinks as competition in the mortgage market heats up (ABN)

  • The $500,000 sea-change secret Sydney has finally discovered (Domain)

  • The Bendigo suburb investors should be targeting (SPI)

  • Luxury housing market no longer a tale of two cities (AFR)

  • Tinkering with the capital gains tax discount isn’t enough. Here’s why it needs to go (Domain)

  • Country’s hottest property market may be coming off the boil (AFR)

  • NSW property confidence hit by cost shock as rate fears grow (ABN)

  • Aussies flee housing market for overseas property bargains (REA)

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