Jessica Taulaga

The cost-of-living crisis is being felt in many households, and by landlords who have also had to bear the brunt of interest rate hikes and rising mortgage costs.

The price gap between buying a house in Sydney and Melbourne has never been so high. All of a sudden Melbourne is looking like a very smart place to buy a home, as this couple quickly found.

Rent prices for units have risen by so much that, in some suburbs, the gap is as little as $2 and in others, it actually costs more to rent a unit than a house.

Domain analysis shows the option to rent rooms out in either a two-bedroom unit or three-bedroom house could potentially net first-home buyers so much extra cash it would put their mortgage repayments back on par with current rent prices.

1 Jul 2024 ... It has become increasingly common for first-home buyers to crack the property market only after receiving assistance from family.

Some regions of Victoria are feeling the impact of Melbourne’s lacklustre property market – recording price falls of nearly 20 per cent in some cases.

A number of suburbs have shown signs of heightened activity against the backdrop of Melbourne’s softened property market landscape.

Property prices in Australia’s mining towns tend to fluctuate far more than anywhere else in Australia. These charts show how far they’ve plummeted – and their meteoric rises – over the past decade.

It’s no secret that Sydney’s real estate market is the most expensive in the country but it’s also ranked as the second-most unaffordable in the world.

May 14, 2024 ... Experts have offered mixed opinions on whether the property market will continue its run of strong price growth or slow down this winter.

While the bulk of the nation’s house price growth is being carried by Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide and Sydney, other cities like Melbourne have seen prices drop.

New analysis has found there are 114 suburbs across the country where buyers can invest in property below a capital city’s entry-level price and still make a rental yield of at least 5 per cent.

The fixed rate ”mortgage cliff” that was predicted to decimate the housing market has failed to materialise.

The stage has been set for a very interesting autumn buying and selling season, following new data with the latest auction figures for Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, Brisbane and Adelaide.

Brisbane’s median house price is tipped to reach $1 million in the next year, so which suburbs should savvy buyers be looking to get in to before Brisbane’s property market takes its place as the next million-dollar city?

Which Australian suburbs are affordable? There actually are still plenty left and, better yet, some still within less than five kilometres of major capital city centres. If you’re asking where you can buy for less than $400,000, read on.

For those hoping to buy a slice of the action, the latest Domain data has revealed where the most affordable properties by square metre can be found.

This year has been full of surprises – an almost fully recovered property market being the main one – so what’s the outlook for Australia’s 2024 housing market?

Sydney real estate is famous across the world for being expensive but what about its cheapest suburbs? Are they safe? Are they nice to live in? For the locals, it’s about so much more than price.

The region with the steepest price falls in the nation may surprise you.