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WA residential property

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Dale Alcock says builders in WA “would be crazy to discount in this environment because they don’t need to”.

Rising rates won’t hit home building in WA or Victoria, ABN Group says

Perth’s undersupply of housing relative to demand is so great that prices will keep rising “substantially”, the country’s second-largest home builder says.

  • Michael Bleby

Rising listings, poor affordability slash house price growth

The rate fell by a third to 1.9 per cent across the combined capital cities during the September quarter, a new report from Domain shows.

  • Nila Sweeney

This Month

Sydney house prices are poised to increase by around 12pc  this year and by another 5pc next year.

Sydney, Brisbane, Perth house prices to rise 12pc this year

The rosier prediction comes as expectations for a wider housing market recovery over the next few years strengthen.

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  • Nila Sweeney
The six-bedroom house on 902 square metres at 4 Haining Avenue in western suburban Perth’s Cottesloe sold by private treaty for $3.8 million.

This $3.8m sale shows the pressures on downsizers

In a low-stock market, vendors want longer settlements. But the rising cost of living means they’re also putting more money into super when they sell.

  • Michael Bleby

This school drop-out became a property magnate. Here’s how he did it

He was told he didn’t have the ‘capability’ to finish school. Now, Nigel Satterley has a $500 million empire that landed him on the Rich List.

  • Julie-anne Sprague
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Where property demand is set to soar

Australia’s population tipped to boom by more than 7.4 million over the next two decades, sending demand for dwellings soaring.

  • Nila Sweeney

Sydney home prices jump 11pc in nine months

Since bottoming out in January, prices in the NSW capital are on track to hit new highs by early next year, according to CoreLogic.

  • Nila Sweeney

‘The worst is behind us’: buyers step up amid finals fever

The auction clearance rate eased only moderately despite the distractions of AFL and NRL grand finals in the two biggest markets.

  • Nick Lenaghan

September

Loss-making, short-hold listings surge across Sydney, Melbourne

The share of short-held listings selling at a loss has ballooned in the inner-city areas, reflecting their weaker performance in the past three years.

  • Nila Sweeney
It took 18 months, not the typical four: But Mirvac’s Priya Correia led a design process that consulted the local Noongar community on aims of, and uses for, the new park in the Henley Brook estate outside Perth.

Mirvac has created a park that’s always full

Mirvac took four times longer to build a community park, but its success changed the way its development team works.

  • Michael Bleby

Melbourne house prices to jump 12pc in 2025

Higher demand and constrained supply is set to push Melbourne’s housing market to outperform Sydney over the next two years, KPMG predicts.

  • Nila Sweeney
The P&O-style house, Point Seymour, has sold for about $40 million.

Profit-making sales rise even as more recent homeowners bail out

With dwelling values still 4.6 per cent lower than they were before interest rates started rising, homeowners reselling within two years had incurred $30,000 loss on average.

  • Nila Sweeney
Bright outlook: The sun is shining on the apartment sector once again, Master Builders Australia says.

Australia to fall 160,000 homes short of 1.2m target: Master Builders

The lobby group is keen to use touted state-federal co-operation to bring in reforms that will reduce development hurdles. 

  • Michael Bleby

House prices bounce right back in 30pc of suburbs

House values in nearly one out of three suburbs nationwide have all but recouped their losses, while unit values in more than two out five suburbs are now higher than they were before interest rates started rising in May last year.

  • Nila Sweeney

Sydney house price rise to hit 10pc this year as recovery firms up

Sydney house prices rose 1.1 per cent in August, defying expectations of a double-dip downturn in values, data from CoreLogic shows.

  • Nila Sweeney
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August

Sydney house prices higher than a year ago

Sydney’s house prices returned to positive growth for the first time since values started falling last year, despite a marked increase in listings, says CoreLogic.

  • Nila Sweeney
Cronulla downsizers Bob and Colleen Otway. 

Downsizing – the housing solution that is just too hard

New figures show where Australia’s housing mismatch is greatest. But it’s not clear that this can be fixed before it’s too late.

  • Michael Bleby
Middle-ring suburbs account for the bulk of areas rejoining the million-dollar club as the recovery ripples out of the inner city, according to CoreLogic.

Housing affordability worsens as pool of million-dollar suburbs swells

The number of suburbs where homes are worth at least $1 million jumped by 10.6 per cent to 806 since values bottomed out in February, data from CoreLogic shows.

  • Nila Sweeney

Suburbs where house prices doubled in the past decade

House prices in nearly one in three Sydney suburbs doubled in the past 10 years, data from CoreLogic shows.

  • Nila Sweeney
The two-bedroom apartment with car park at 5/990 Wellington Street, West Perth, sold by private treaty for $392,000.

The investment market drawing interstate buyers

In a recovering city where prices are rising, buyers from eastern states are still willing to pay more than locals.

  • Michael Bleby