The Great Australian Dream — owning your own house on your own land — once felt like a rite of passage. A goalpost that defined success, stability, and adulthood. But in 2025, is it now more of a punchline? House prices are up. Interest rates are (slowly) coming down. Supply remains squeezed. And property ownership? […]

Offering consistent returns and tangible bricks and mortar security, it’s not surprising that more Australian investors are choosing to add property to their retirement portfolio. As an investor, you must ensure that any asset purchased meets your long-term financial objectives and more importantly, is feasible with regard to your capacity to derive the desired economic […]

The RBA is seemingly tired of being everyone’s favourite whipping boy when it comes to blowing housing bubbles, recently suggesting that to blame low interest rates for the current investor led property craze, was to ignore the true fundamental pushing house prices up by double digits across parts of inner city Sydney in particular. In […]

It seems that with every new property boom in Australia’s major cities, a new construction craze commences. Around 10 years ago when real estate was going gangbusters, high-rise apartment developers flooded a number of ‘big ticket’ markets with their offerings, most notably across Melbourne’s CBD precincts. Buoyed by the good times when real estate is […]