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Australia’s property market is facing mounting pressure as higher rates, rising rebuild costs and weaker housing approvals add to concerns about a deeper downturn.

Yet opportunities remain, with investors still buying in select markets while buyers gain more choice, negotiating power and access to incentives as auction volumes rise.

With some experts warning of further price falls and housing supply targets slipping further out of reach, this week’s headlines highlight a market where careful research and strong fundamentals matter more than ever.

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Auction Clearance Rates

Home Buyers Around the Country

  • Melbourne buyers push $101k past published auction reserve (REA)

  • Rates at 15-year-high, and Aussie home loans more than double since 2011 (Domain)

  • 75% of buyers cut lifestyle spending to get into property (SPI)

  • Buyers warned as $25,000 email offer highlights hidden real estate red flag: 'Double dipping' (Yahoo)

  • Buyers have more choice as auction volume rises (RayWhite)

  • Reserve Bank says most mortgage holders can weather price falls (ABN)

  • Home approvals drop, apartment plunge threatens Albanese target (REA)

  • 'It's not good news': Inflation surge puts mortgage holders on notice for another rate hike (Domain)

  • Home buyers offered 'incentives' as Aussie property market declines: 'More leverage' (Yahoo)

  • Commonwealth Bank boss says Reserve Bank rate hikes probably finished (ABC)

  • Eight expenses to budget for before you buy a home (RayWhite)

  • Housing market on track for its steepest downturn in 40 years (AFR)

  • Queensland scores the one building prize it didn’t want (News)

  • Suncorp Bank pulls plug on new mortgage lending for broker, proprietary channels (MPAMag)

Investors

  • REA Group expands into Ireland with $409m property, car portal stake (AFR)

  • How new builds can change the maths for investors (REA)

  • Secret reason behind this empty patch of dirt’s $3.9m price (Domain)

  • The property fundamentals investors can’t afford to ignore (SPI)

  • RBA relaxed about housing downturn, deeply worried by AI and bonds (ABC)

  • Twice-sweetened $3b-plus offer for Ingenia still lowball: analysts (AFR)

  • Experts quietly change tune on house prices (News)

  • Home values are sliding. Rebuild bills aren't (MPAMag)

  • ‘Enormous increases’: The 77 suburbs where prices rose more than $300k in a year (REA)

  • $90k gross income: Holiday apartments emerge as solution to budget changes (SPI)

  • Budget changes have produced a property shift that's not going back: 'Rarely seen' (Yahoo)

  • Investors are still buying, as this $950,000 inner-Sydney sale shows (AFR)

  • Foreigner cops $508k fine over illegal Aus act (News)

  • The market reacts: industry leaders weigh in on the RBA's latest rate hike (ABN)

  • Could house prices fall 15%? This economist says yes (MPAMag)

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