Victoria's new AOS exemption guidelines ease land tax for residential developers. Nicholas Clifton of Sladen Legal explains why individual overseas buyers still face the 8% FPAD and the 4% AOS, ...
Total dwelling approvals across Australia rose 5.1% in September 2026 to 17,948, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said in its Building Approvals, Australia release on November 2. The gain ...
Australia's Reserve Bank raised its cash rate target by 25 basis points to 4.85% on November 3, 2026 — the fifth increase this year and the highest level since 2008 ...
Cotality data shows Australian home sales fell 20.9% year-on-year in September 2026, the ninth straight month of decline, with mortgage demand down 19.2% year-on-year, the weakest since October 2022.
Victoria's Treasurer Colin Brooks has announced AOS exemptions for affordable-housing developers and a conditional pre-election review of the AOS and FPAD foreign-investor property-tax surcharges.
Australia's negative-gearing and capital-gains-tax overhaul became law on 25 June 2026, and early rental-listing and auction-clearance data is now showing its effects; this piece lays out the enacted mechanism, verified ...
CBRE forecasts a wave of migrant home buyers meeting shrinking apartment supply in 2028-2030, driving Australian apartment values 20% higher by decade's end.
The RBA's fourth 2026 rate hike has erased months of house-price relief, auction clearance rates have dropped, Chalmers faces resignation calls, and a 2027 capital gains tax change is already ...
Australian home values fell for a sixth consecutive month in September, with Cotality's national Home Value Index down 1.1% and dwelling values now 5.2% below their March 2026 peak, according ...
Australia's Federal Court fined a foreign investor $508,000 for leaving approved land undeveloped for over a decade, part of an ATO crackdown that has forced 111 property sales.
