Young Western Australians driving an increase in first home buyers entering the market.
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Perth’s bustling property market – which has seen reports of homes being snapped up for more than asking price amid long queues outside many home opens – is tip…
Set to buy their third home in Melbourne before the age of 30, this couple is profiting from property while earning an average salary.
There are a number of reasons why a person may want to invest in property, but they never actually get around to it.
The number of news reports about residential property prices dropped significantly between March and August.
Australians in all capital cities, bar Sydney and Melbourne, would be better off buying a home than renting it, new data has revealed.
Build-to-rent housing can disrupt the prevailing speculative development model.
Landlords with an investment property in working class Medina were receiving the highest rental returns in Perth in the year to May 2020, with a gross rental yi…
A sudden rush of well-off immigrants could drive Sydney and Melbourne housing prices to even more unaffordable levels.

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Homebuyers are prioritising lot size over near-city locations and the size of new houses is growing at its fastest rate in more than a decade, with the COVID-inspired shift of buying preferences expected to be a lasting phenomenon.
Hobart continues to lead the nation for profit-making home sales, with profitability across markets tipped to rise in the coming months as low mortgage rates, improving economic conditions and rising consumer sentiment combine to result in an increase in happy vendors.
A lack of housing stock for sale has become a national theme as property markets position themselves for a vaccination-led post-COVID recovery on steroids.
Cedar Woods CEO Nathan Blackburne tells us he is expecting a resurgence of investors in 2021, and also reveals the markets where the ASX-listed developer is banking on the biggest growth.
Developers and selling agents on Queensland’s Gold Coast say the surge of demand that occurred in the back half of 2020 is showing no signs of slowing down, with buyers lining up in droves for established properties as well as off-the-plan apartments.

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