Current Melbourne Housing Market

In the current housing market everyone has an opinion, including me of course! We have all seen the news headlines either in print or online: “House prices set to plummet by 20-25 per cent in 2023” – News.com.au 10/2/23. We have seen the media talk up the “R” word. Why the Reserve Bank is pushing […]

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Forget Winter, Spring is coming, and it will be huge

I attended 2 auctions in flogging rain on Saturday. The first in North Melbourne saw a single fronted Victorian home go under the hammer. In the freezing cold and rain and not enough space inside the home, around 50 people stood outside and waited for the auctioneer. A previous offer of $725k had been rejected […]

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Shock election results will change the property market

We can look back on Saturday’s election results and certainly talk about the polls and media commentators missing the outcome. But what will it mean to the property market? I certainly had spent much time thinking about the impacts of negative gearing being wound back and also the possibility of large capital gains tax changes. […]

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When will the Market Reignite?

The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) is an independent body that supervises banking institutions and has been a useful tool for the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). 2 years ago the RBA board knew that the housing market was overheating in both Melbourne and Sydney. But nowhere else in the country was the housing market […]

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Are all property contracts made equal?

Clearance rates are not dropping, and they are simply not likely to anytime in the near future. Listening to Channel Nine’s Ross Greenwood this morning I heard him talk about the need for another 2.5M dwellings in the next 15 years. And considering we are now only at 9M, that is nearly 30% more than […]

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