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Australian Taxation Office data-matching programs now cross-reference rental property schedules against over 1.6 million residential investment dwellings eac…

A growing number of property investors who bought during the 2021–22 boom are now confronting a lender-imposed straitjacket they did not see coming. The setu…

The Australian housing market’s protracted affordability squeeze, compounded by the Reserve Bank’s official cash rate holding at 4.35% since November 2023, h…

Australia’s housing affordability squeeze is pushing more owner‑occupiers into generating income from secondary dwellings on their land. Granny flats, once t…

The Reserve Bank of Australia has held the cash rate at 4.35 per cent since November 2023, and with three of the big four banks now expecting the first cut n…

Home warranty insurance—the statutory cover that protects homeowners against incomplete or defective building work when their builder dies, disappears, or be…

From midnight on 31 December 2023, the calculus of Victorian land tax shifted permanently for thousands of property investors. The State Taxation Acts Amendm…

The $10,000 New South Wales First Home Owner Grant has sat unchanged since 2012, but the property-price environment in which it operates has been transformed…

Queensland’s transfer duty concession for first-home buyers remained frozen at a full exemption for homes up to $500,000 and a sliding scale that cut out ent…

The Regional First Home Buyer Guarantee entered the permanent policy mix on 1 July 2024, converting what had been a three-year pilot into an ongoing annual a…

The Reserve Bank of Australia held the cash rate at 4.35% p.a. in November 2023, pausing after 400 basis points of tightening since May 2022. That pause does…

The Reserve Bank of Australia held the cash rate at 4.35 per cent for a seventh consecutive meeting in September 2024, keeping the serviceability assessment…