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From cooling Sydney prices to booming $5m Brisbane homes, Australia’s property market is pulling in opposite directions.
Rising rates, slowing demand, and surging listings are testing confidence, while buyers continue battling for blue-chip postcodes and affordable entry points.
This week’s headlines reveal a market adjusting to a new reality where opportunity and risk are colliding fast.
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Home Buyers Around the Country
How Australians are eating our future, one home auction at a time (SMH)
Past its gritty reputation, this Sydney suburb now hums with cafes and calm (Domain)
First-home buyer scheme under fire for driving up property prices (REA)
WA Budget delivers major stamp duty overhaul for first-home buyers (ABN)
34,000 new homes to land on WA market (SPI)
Sydney buyers battle for sought-after postcodes (REA)
Couple save $800 a week after copping 9 per cent interest rate in mortgage tactic ‘becoming more common’ (Yahoo)
These homes were snagged before their scheduled auction on Saturday – here's why (Domain)
Vic’s auction market set to cool as rate hike spooks buyers (REA)
Three-bedroom house for sale at $5,000 (News)
First-home buyer rebound gathers pace as loan sizes jump (ABN)
Unley Park: heritage homes, green spaces and Inner South living (Domain)
Investors
Australia's 30-Year Cash Rate Journey: From Peak to Trough (LinkedIn)
Sydney house prices may be cooling - but these suburbs have surged by up to $600k (Domain)
Big new hotel announced for Adelaide but are there enough already? (ABC)
How a $160bn hospital boom is fuelling the next property hotspots (REA)
Unit prices in these capital cities are now the same as house prices were less than five years ago (Domain)
Brissie’s $5m home boom: Up 700pc in five years (News)
Budget 2026: What we know so far about housing, negative gearing and capital gains tax (REA)
Boarded up, fire-damaged and condemned: Why Australia’s worst homes are still selling fast (Domain)
RBA pause tips next rate hikes to August and September (ABN)
National market on brink of downturn as rates rise, demand slows, and listings surge (SPI)
ASIC sounds alarm as AI-driven mortgage fraud accelerates (ABN)
Australia’s housing model 'worked too well' – now the world could hold the fix (Domain)
Rate hike crunch: The pros and cons of an interest-only home loan (REA)
‘Never imagined’: Couple’s $5m+ two-home surprise (News)
Housing belongs in the inequality story (FirstLinks)
Property Stat of the Week
Credit: Cotality, RBA, APRA, ASX
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