7+ hour, 1+ min ago  (771+ words) June 13, 2026 " 5: 01am The question may well speak to you too. Indeed, to many people. The answer goes like this. The mathematical winner. The various amounts of your debt don't factor into which one you should prioritise as much as the interest…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago  (839+ words) June 11, 2026 " 5: 00am Stubborn sellers and nervous buyers are responsible for a sharp increase in the number of Australian homes languishing on the market for six months or more, experts say. In May, 73, 820 properties nationally had been on market for 180 days or…...

6+ day, 23+ hour ago  (635+ words) June 6, 2026 " 11: 30am Increasing housing supply has been the government's focus for four years, to solve an affordability crisis. But no matter how much cash, or rhetoric, is thrown at supply, it's now apparent that it's not helping Millennials to enter the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (52+ words) More than 50, 000 first home buyers are at risk of losing money after house prices tumbled in some capital cities. Updated May 30, 2026 " 11: 44pm, first published 6: 17pm...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (68+ words) More than 50, 000 first home buyers are at risk of losing money after house prices tumbled in some capital, as the government's five-per cent deposit scheme backfires. Updated May 30, 2026 " 6: 20pm, first published 6: 17pm...

2+ week, 3+ day ago  (863+ words) May 27, 2026 " 5: 00am When people face a threat " real or perceived " the common responses are "fight, "flight and "freeze. When it comes to the latest property tax changes, all three have been on display: a flurry of people kicking up a fuss…...

4+ week, 5+ hour ago  (933+ words) May 16, 2026 " 5: 01am Didn't anybody drafting last week's budget think of the 95 per cent first home buyers? In October last year, the government pulled the trigger " three months early " on a hugely expanded Home Guarantee Scheme, which allows first homebuyers to purchase…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (1001+ words) May 10, 2026 " 5: 00am There's a great scene in the new Australian film Birthright where Corey, a 30-something man with a pregnant wife, no home or job, asks his father for a home loan. The mood is sombre: Corey's father, Richard, sits imperiously…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1067+ words) May 5, 2026 " 3: 35pm Potential home buyers and existing borrowers have become more cautious over the last two months, amid rising interest rates, spikes in petrol prices and the cost of living. The Reserve Bank on Tuesday lifted the cash rate for the…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (670+ words) April 27, 2026 " 3: 30pm House buyers are increasingly timid and sellers have unrealistic price expectations. That's the market equation feeding into the weekend's anaemic auction clearance rates, which are now approaching lows not seen since the pandemic. Prices should follow clearance rates down;…...