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Spring has ignited Australia’s property market.

From $3m prestige entries in Brisbane to first-home buyers doubling in Melbourne, competition is heating up. Investors are back, auctions are booming, and affordability remains a battleground. Here’s what you need to know this week.

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Auction Clearance Rates

Home Buyers Around the Country

  • First-home buyers: Where to buy with just 5 per cent deposit (REA)

  • Largs Bay home sells after nine days on market following fast-tracked auction (REA)

  • Risking retirement: Why the bank of mum and dad don’t expect to be paid back (REA)

  • Struggling with your mortgage? When it’s time to walk away (REA)

  • The capital where you can build in a brand new estate and still get to work in 30 mins (REA)

  • What it's like to live on the most expensive street in Australia (Domain)

  • 'I lost 2kg from stress': What it's like being a first-home buyer in Sydney (Domain)

  • Bank opens 40-year-old mortgage for first home buyers (SPI)

  • 5% scheme doubles location options for first home buyers (SPI)

  • Twice the Demand: First-Home Buyers Flock to Melbourne (SPI)

  • Dire property revelation as 'affordable' homes take 8 years to save for and cost 'half household income' (Yahoo)

  • Inheritance myth costing Aussies $150,000: 'Nasty surprise' (Yahoo)

  • Housing affordability strains persist despite first-home buyer rebound (ABN)

  • Expanded Home Guarantee Scheme boosts first-home buyer choices (ABN)

Investors

  • New norm: $3m entry for Brisbane’s prestige market (REA)

  • Geelong sees surge in new arrivals from capital cities (REA)

  • First weekend of spring: Sydney auctions smash expectations (REA)

  • Back in favour: Investors return to property following 2023 exodus (REA)

  • Affordable Sydney suburb records shock $340,000 growth in one year (Domain)

  • ‘Sellers’ market’: Auction market hits the strongest point in two years (Domain)

  • Sydney residents band together to cash in with secret mega deals (Domain)

  • Competition Heats Up: Victoria Sees Investor and First-Home Buyer Showdown (SPI)

  • “The perfect time to sell: Spring vendors set to benefit from listing shortage (SPI)

  • Exit strategy: The hidden challenge in property investing (SPI)

  • Australian suburbs where property prices rose up to $562,000 in three months after RBA 'catalyst' (Yahoo)

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