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Alice Uribe

Alice Uribe

Alice Uribe is the deputy property editor at The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age.

Some mortgage brokers say potential buyers are pulling out of deals.

‘They tend to move with the cycles’: The times property investors fled the market

Property investors are motivated by capital gains rather than rental yield, data shows. Budget policies are forcing them to rethink this strategy.

  • Alice Uribe

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Tom Booth at home in Five Dock.

‘The most amount of caution I’ve seen’: How home owners are managing rate hikes

Potential home buyers and existing borrowers are managing not only rising interest rates but the increasing cost of living.

  • Caroline Zielinski, Elizabeth Redman and Alice Uribe
Auction results have been mixed.

Why Australian property prices could go backwards by 2030

Average dwelling prices could fall 11 per cent by 2030, new research shows. Key to the future are housing supply and the unemployment rate.

  • Alice Uribe
Kanaan Eletri, who is thinking about moving to his Melbourne investment property as the mortgage on his Melbourne four-bedder would be the same or cheaper than his Sydney rent.

The Sydneysiders considering a sea-change … to Melbourne

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.

  • Alice Uribe
 Claire and her partner are 23 bought an investment property

‘Financially cautious’: The Gen Zs determined to be home owners

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.

  • Alice Uribe
Erin Howell at her new home.

Sydney suburbs where unloved homes are getting more expensive

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.

  • Alice Uribe
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Thomas Pozzer has been anticipating a rate rise and planning on how to make sure it has the least impact on his finances.

The smart way home borrowers are dealing with higher interest rates

The rate rise will add about $100 a month to a $600,000 mortgage, but home owners have a strategy to get ahead.

  • Wes Mountain and Alice Uribe
The share of home lending has reversed in favour of investors over the past five years

How property investors piled into Australia’s housing market

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.

  • Alice Uribe
Ricky Banga, 33, a real estate photographer, came to Australia in 2011 as a student to join his older brother. They ended up buying a house together in Craigieburn in 2015 (with help from Ricky’s wife, Sherry) and plan to stay there for a while.

What the Great Australian Dream looks like today

As house prices rise, young people are rethinking home ownership, and some are finding creative new ways to live.

  • Caroline Zielinski and Alice Uribe
Neil Robertson purchased his first home in Fitzroy for $7500 in 1972.

What was the Great Australian Dream?

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.

  • Caroline Zielinski and Alice Uribe