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Australia’s property market is entering a new phase as falling clearance rates, budget changes, and tighter lending conditions reshape buyer and investor behaviour.
Vendors are rushing to market, investors are hunting yield in new locations, and first-home buyers are reassessing opportunities created by recent policy changes.
With confidence mixed and affordability still front of mind, this week’s headlines reveal a market searching for its next direction.
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Auction Clearance Rates
Home Buyers Around the Country
Budget won't be 'main driver' if house prices fall, housing minister says (ABC)
Construction loans on the rise? (REA)
The budget handed first home buyers an edge. Here’s how to use it (AFR)
First home buyers pay $1m for villa as market reality sinks in for vendors (SMH)
‘It’s crazy’: Australia is in a ‘buyer’s market’. But for many, it may not feel like one (SBS News)
New duplex inquiries jump 72pc after federal budget’s negative gearing carve out (AFR)
The South Coast town where locals still set the pace (Domain)
Buyers given boost of confidence as inflation drop signals rate hold (SPI)
Aussie state scraps $28,900 first home buyer stamp duty exemption in major change: 'Disappointing’ (Yahoo)
The migration maths behind the housing crisis is not what politicians claim (ABC)
The great pause: Why home buyers and sellers are holding fire (AFR)
Rental market remains in limbo (AustralianBroker)
Not quite an apartment, not quite a townhouse: This is the property market's humble underdog (Domain)
Home owners could find reprieve from rate rises (SPI)
What do plummeting clearance rates mean for the property market? (ABC)
Investors
‘Increasingly urgent’: Housing race now on as vendors rush to sell amid market decline (News)
Where sellers are riding the property boom (REA)
ATO finalises strict new tax rules for holiday homes (AFR)
Tenants told to brace for $2.6k a year extra cost (News)
Auction clearance rates expected to fall below 2022 downturn levels (Domain)
NAB tightens lending ahead of tax shake-up (AustralianBroker)
Investors are circling Herne Hill as Geelong tightens (SPI)
The budget fine print that could catch investors out (REA)
Controversial Sunshine Coast housing project receives federal approval (ABC)
Anti-money laundering action to reform property industry (RayWhite)
Albo tax tweak kills $540m Aussie real estate firm (News)
Where investors are hunting yield as tax changes bite (AustralianBroker)
Buyers ignored this inner-city Brisbane suburb for years. With prices like these, it's their loss (Domain)
More than $180k returned to tenants after taskforce identifies illegal payments (SPI)
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