James Robertson Published: October 25 2017 – 12:15AM Liana Levin says she felt as if she was evicted from much of a suburb not just an apartment. For nearly three years…
JENNIFER DUKE- OCT 20, 2017 Australia’s millions of property investors will soon have a new outlet to lobby the government, with a group set to launch aiming to protect their interests. In…
JENNIFER DUKE – OCT 29, 2017 When Damian Pasternak and Danielli Paiva were deciding where to buy their first home, they quickly realised the upper north shore suburb of Roseville, where they are renting, was not an option.…
James Robertson Published: November 1 2017 – 6:50PM A promise by the NSW government to protect renters’ rights has the premier facing a potential showdown with the city’s richest man who is…
Lisa Visentin Published: November 4 2017 – 12:15AM It is a question not asked of other global cities. Is New York full? How about Paris? And yet the sentiment appears to…
The number of homes built explicitly to rent out is set to take off in Australia over the next five years, housing industry experts have predicted. They’ll be nothing like…
As a Sydneysider I was naturally outraged to discover that my glorious city had dropped out of the top 10 of the annual Global Liveability Report. And despite our celebrated existential rivalry,…
Changes to how depreciation can be claimed on residential properties, following the release of the 2017-18 federal budget, will cost some investors thousands of dollars, while potentially having a negative effect on housing affordability despite being designed to do the exact opposite, experts warn.
Sydney End of the market upswing. Now being constrained by buying and rental affordability, plus low rental yields. Yet, sales demand still exceeds resale supply. New housing supply remains relatively tight.
Sydney’s vacancy rate held steady in April at only 1.7 per cent, indicating there are supply constraints in the rental property market.