Alice Uribe is the deputy property editor at The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.
Property investors are motivated by capital gains rather than rental yield, data shows. Budget policies are forcing them to rethink this strategy.
Potential home buyers and existing borrowers are managing not only rising interest rates but the increasing cost of living.
Average dwelling prices could fall 11 per cent by 2030, new research shows. Key to the future are housing supply and the unemployment rate.
Sydneysiders mulling a move to regional NSW could find for virtually the same size mortgage they could instead move to Melbourne and keep their urban lifestyle.
Many Gen Zs are financially switched-on and want to get ahead. Buying property is one tactic, even if they don’t plan to live in it.
Of the 2700-plus Sydney properties passed in at auction over the past six months, more than half were re-advertised with a higher price guide.
The rate rise will add about $100 a month to a $600,000 mortgage, but home owners have a strategy to get ahead.
The share of home lending has reversed in favour of investors over the past five years, but experts say there may be more first home buyers through 2026.
As house prices rise, young people are rethinking home ownership, and some are finding creative new ways to live.
Work hard, buy a home, maybe an investment property down the track: the rational decisions of the past have given way to a different future.