Allison Worrall

Without knowing if the cash rate has peaked, or when it might come down, economists and experts are divided in their predictions for the property market in 2024 and beyond.

Traditionally Melbourne’s housing market moves in step with Sydney, following a similar pattern of peaks and troughs. But that’s no longer the case: the city’s property landscape is softening even as the majority of the other capitals continue to notch up price gains.

This year’s contestants will need to be strategic when they decide who goes when.

Five ambitious couples from around the country have taken on the monumental challenge of transforming fully furnished and untouched 1950s homes into high-end modern masterpieces – this is the first sneak peek inside.

In the current economic market, with interest rates at their highest point in a decade and a rental crisis gripping the country, is rentvesting still a feasible strategy for getting on the property ladder?

Melbourne is Australia’s second-largest city, a sporting mecca, arguably the cultural capital of the country and a hugely popular landing destination for migrants. Somehow, it’s also the most affordable city in which to rent a house.

As property prices have come off the boil, trendy inner-city suburbs across the country have become cheaper.

When I flew the nest a decade ago, I had no intention of ever coming back.

As the rental market enters its busiest fortnight of the year, new figures show rents have climbed to record levels across the city.

Reliant on a wheelchair, Anne Black has won $10,000 and building modifications after being forced to ask strangers on the street to help her open the door.