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Market news Australian Property Market Downturn 2026: What a Buyer's Market Changes When You Buy New Home values have fallen five months running. Cotality, PropTrack and Domain reconciled, the RBA's role, and what a buyer's market changes when you buy new. -
Market news Rental Yields Australia 2026: Rents Rise While Prices Fall, and the 2027 Rules Reward New Stock Gross rental yields hit 3.79 per cent, the highest since 2019, as rents climb and prices slip. What Cotality, SQM, the ABS and the ATO mean for new stock. -
Tax and policy Should I Sell My Investment Property Before the 2027 Tax Changes? The honest answer depends on numbers most owners have never put on one page. A framework for deciding whether to sell or hold before 1 July 2027. -
Development 5 Creative Ways to Fund a Property Development You don't need a fortune to fund a property development. Five ways, from manufactured equity and vendor finance to joint ventures, crowdfunding and gap funding. -
Tax and policy Capital Gains Tax Changes 2027: What They Do to Your Gain The capital gains tax changes start 1 July 2027: the 50% discount is replaced by indexation and a 30% floor. What that does to your gain, with the numbers. -
Tax and policy How to Invest in New Build Property in Australia From 2027 The 2027 tax changes point investors at new supply. Here are the four ways to get a new build, and how to take part without becoming the developer. -
Tax and policy Does Your Build Count as a New Build Under the 2027 Negative Gearing Rules? From 1 July 2027 the only negatively gearable home in Australia is a new build. Here is what qualifies, what doesn't, and the CGT change that lands with it. -
Development Ever Wondered When Is the Best Time to Develop Property? The best time to develop property is when the feasibility works, not when the cycle peaks. Why market timing fails developers, and what to examine instead. -
Development How to Confidently Compare Property Development Crowdfunding Opportunities by Risk and Return Compare property development crowdfunding deals with two checks: capital stack position and development stage, plus a worked example in real dollars. -
Development 7 Critical Factors to Nail Property Development Funding The 7 criteria banks and private lenders use to assess property development funding in Australia, the thresholds they want, and your options if you fall short. -
Market news Interest Rates and Property Development: What the Latest Move Means for Small Developers Rate decisions ripple through every property project via finance costs, buyer demand and feasibility. How to read a rate move as a small developer or investor. -
Market research How to Read Boomscore Data to Find a Growth Suburb A practical guide to using Boomscore and supply-and-demand indicators to shortlist suburbs with real growth potential, and the traps to avoid along the way. -
Market research Buy, Hold or Sell? Using Market-Cycle Data to Time Residential Property You cannot pick the exact top, but you can read the property cycle. How supply, demand, vacancy and days on market reveal whether to buy, hold or sell. -
Development The 7 Stages of a Small Residential Property Development (and Where the Margin Hides) A stage-by-stage walk through a small residential development project, from site selection to settlement, and the point in each where margin is won or lost. -
Market news Reading Building-Approvals Data: Signal vs Noise Building-approvals figures move markets but are easy to misread. How to separate the signal from the noise and what approvals tell you about future supply. -
Development Property Development Feasibility 101: Running the Numbers Before You Commit How a property development feasibility works, from end value to residual land value and margin, explained in plain English with a simple worked example.
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