8+ hour, 27+ min ago   (464+ words) Mortgage frauds keep stacking up across Australia's lending landscape. The news comes off the back of reports this past fall that mortgage fraud was accelerating in Australia's lending market, putting brokers and lenders on alert, and prompting many to take…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (356+ words) Buyer attention is shifting toward affordable regional pockets as tighter borrowing conditions push house hunters further from the capitals, according to new realestate.com.au search data. The analysis, comparing property search volumes in July 2026 against July 2025, found search activity…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago   (391+ words) Australia's housing correction is deepening, and stretched borrowing capacity is doing much of the work in deciding where the pain lands hardest. Tim Lawless (pictured left), Cotality's head of research, Asia Pacific, writing on LinkedIn, said constrained servicing power is…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago   (327+ words) The total value of Australia's residential dwellings has fallen for the first time in nearly four years, according to new figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The ABS reported that the value of Australia's dwelling stock dropped $34.1 billion, or…...

6+ day, 7+ hour ago   (431+ words) More than one in five new homes approved across Australia in the year to June 2026 were built in areas already grappling with high mortgage stress, according to new OurTop10 Pressure Corridors research. Of the 51 council areas analysed, 38 growth-corridor councils recorded mortgage-stress…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago   (482+ words) Sydney's property market is splitting in two. While the city's median house prices have fallen 5% over the past year — the steepest annual drop of any major Australian capital — the most affordable pockets of the market are holding up far better…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago   (413+ words) The opening week of the spring selling season has delivered a subdued start, with 1,462 homes taken to auction across the combined capital cities — 31.1% fewer than the same week last year. Tim Lawless (pictured), Cotality's head of research, Asia Pacific, noted…...

1+ week, 7+ hour ago   (375+ words) Perth's property market is showing clearer signs of rebalancing, with the number of homes advertised for sale reaching 7,335 at the end of August — the highest total since March 2023. The figure was up 7.8% on July and a striking 146.1% higher than the…...

1+ week, 8+ hour ago   (391+ words) Australia's home-building sector remains well short of its glory days. Total residential construction spending nationally sits 2.6% below the peak recorded in June 2018, despite an 8.4% rise over the past year. Six of the eight states and territories remain below their own…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (612+ words) Blank Financial is expanding. And the Melbourne-based brokerage marked the next phase of its growth story with a stylish party in the penthouse of South Melbourne's Luminare. The firm, which was founded in 2017 by Bernard Desmond, has added five brokers…...