Property

AARON PATRICK: Allowing new homes to be built is one thing. Changing the tax rules and pushing down prices is another. Mr Albanese is changing the country. Investors are being forced to adapt.

Q+A: Plan to rent out your home when you buy a new place? There’s one capital gains tax problem to consider, especially considering Perth’s still red-hot property market.

House prices are now falling in two Australian cities, with the first monthly decline in three years hitting some of the nation’s strongest performing markets.

A broker says borrowers should challenge their lender to avoid missing out on a mortgage rate cut.

The sudden decline in residential property sales across Australia means that lenders are scrambling to generate new mortgage business.

Australians are scrambling to buy an investment property in a certain way before the law changes in a matter of weeks.

Anthony Albanese, who co-owns a beachside investment property, is celebrating the biggest drop in home prices since 2022.

Independent Senator David Pocock is warning divorcing couples could still lose the right to negatively gear an investment property until Labor clarifies its amendments.

Prestige suburbs near the beach or the city have seen house price falls approaching 10 per cent in just three months.

For the first time since COVID and only the third time on record, Australia has hit a grim milestone, with fears now growing over what happens next.

Australia’s peak accounting group has warned rushed Budget tax changes would impose severe costs on investment property owners and shareholders — even if they don’t sell.

‘A good investment doesn’t automatically turn into a bad one overnight when tax law changes.’

AARON PATRICK: A $3.4 million house in one of Brisbane’s best suburbs did not receive a single bid at an auction, a sign that property prices could be entering into a serious downturn.

Capital city auction clearance rates have crashed to a six-year low in a sign Labor’s Budget has discouraged potential investors.

The cost of buying a home in two big Australian cities has dropped, but rents are likely to continue rising over the coming months.

The median age of Australian property investors has risen during the past 25 years, with the Reserve Bank revealing new data as Treasurer Jim Chalmers introduced a capital gains tax and negative gearing bill.

The days of flipping houses could be dead, experts say, in the wake of major changes to investment property taxes.

AARON PATRICK: Taxpayers may question why benefits often go to people with an insider-like knowledge of how the system works, rather than the truly desperate, needy or marginalised.