Housing market

Confidence in the housing market continued to grow during the third quarter, the major bank’s recent survey has shown.

The major bank’s outlook for the housing market continues to foresee households adjusting to higher rates, while the rebound in population growth has drawn stronger housing demand.

Treasury has reacted to the RBA decision assessing a 2023 economic slowdown, but for ‘how long?’ and ‘by how much?’, economists have posed.

Regional property values continue to demonstrate “remarkable resilience”, outperforming their capital city counterparts, according to CoreLogic.

The COVID-19 pandemic’s influence on the Australian housing market is still being felt, five years after the global health crisis began.

Half of Australian housing markets saw an annual decline in values last year, with 80 per cent noting declines in the final quarter, according to new data.

The IMF has ranked Australia’s housing market as being the second most high-risk country of 27 countries, which CoreLogic attributes to five reasons.

A “strong cyclical position” bodes well for Australia, but tightening is still needed, major UN agency the IMF, has assessed.

The NSW government’s new guarantee scheme has been hailed as a breakthrough for stalled housing projects, but questions remain over whether it will meaningfully lift supply.

Brokers have entered the debate over the capital gains tax (CGT) discount, saying that reform could create new stresses in the housing market without fixing the underlying problem.

More buyers are opting to buy off-market properties as sales volumes trend upwards and listing volumes plummet, according to the leading professional body for buyer’s agents.

The Reserve Bank has kept official interest rates sitting at 1.5 per cent ever since August 2016 which represents the longest period of cash rate stability on record.

New research has found that the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Australia’s housing market are ongoing.

Australian house prices surged by 8.6 per cent in 2025, but December data suggests that the boom may be losing steam.

As property values soar and demand surges ahead of the First Home Buyer Scheme, investors are questioning where the profits have gone, while first-time buyers are struggling to get a ...