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LATEST10 Sept 2026

What Drives Regional Property Demand: Infrastructure, Jobs and Migration in Three Australian Towns

Regional property demand is driven by a combination of capital city flight, a tight rental market, and targeted employment growth in essential services.

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10 Sept 2026

What the RBA's 4.35% Cash Rate Means for First-Home Buyers in Late 2026

First-home buyers face a market where borrowing capacity is constrained by high interest rates and affordability is near historical lows.

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17 June 2026

Why Brighton house prices are holding while Melbourne falls

Melbourne's prestige Bayside suburb is caught between extreme scarcity and macro headwinds. Rate tightening and proposed negative gearing reform are pulling against a structural supply deficit and a stock-on-market rate of just 0.34 per cent — a market that softens without breaking.

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17 June 2026

Toorak house prices are down 8% while its units are up 7%

Toorak's prestige housing market is in a clear correction: median house prices down 8.28% YoY to $5.65M, national clearance rates at 49.8%, Melbourne flagged as the nation's weakest capital. Its units moved the other way, gaining 7.46%. Structural undersupply and a 65.2% owner-occupier rate distinguish this from a crash.

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06 June 2026

Melbourne's apartment glut and its rental shortage are both real

Melbourne's apartment market in June 2026 is defined by structural tension: rental vacancy at a multi-year low of 1.4% while elevated rates and APRA DTI limits suppress transaction volumes. A genuine split-market condition that resists easy resolution.

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