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Apr 15, 2026

BRISBANE EARNED THIS

The numbers are out. And for once, they tell a story that makes sense. Cotality's April 2026 Housing Chart Pack has landed with data that, if you've been watching Brisbane closely, won't surprise y

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Apr 8, 2026

THE GREAT DOWNSIZING SHIFT

If you try to explain Australia’s housing market using only interest rates, migration or supply shortages, you’re missing a large part of the picture. There is another force moving through the market

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Apr 1, 2026

HOW BRISBANE INVESTORS ACTUALLY BEHAVE

There’s a version of the property investor that gets a lot of airtime. Multi-state. Always buying. Always ahead of the market. Quietly accumulating. It’s a nice story. It’s just not the dominant on

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Mar 26, 2026

WHEN PRICES AND BORROWING POWER STOP TALKING TO EACH OTHER

There is something quietly strange happening in Australian housing. Interest rates rose sharply. Borrowing capacity fell. Mortgage repayments jumped by more than 50 percent in some cases. And ye

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Mar 6, 2026

THE QUIET DEMAND LAYER BRISBANE KEEPS UNDERESTIMATING

We talk about housing like it’s driven by a few loud forces. Migration. Interest rates. Construction costs. Planning. Supply. All real. But there’s a quieter driver sitting underneath the whole mar

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Feb 26, 2026

THE NEW RENTER IS NOT WAITING FOR PERMISSION

For a long time, housing followed a familiar script. Steady job, steady pay, steady suburb, steady mortgage. That script is breaking. A growing slice of Australians now work in fragments, contract

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Feb 19, 2026

BRISBANE IS FEELING A LITTLE BRAVER

Something is shifting. Not loudly. Not dramatically. Just enough to notice. Across the country, consumer confidence has nudged upward. It is not a celebration, but it is no longer a flinch either.

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Feb 11, 2026

INVESTORS ARE BACK, BUT BRISBANE IS PLAYING ITS OWN GAME

The headlines in November were LOUD. Investor lending is at decade highs, Google searches for “investment property” have jumped to levels not seen in twenty years, and APRA is hinting that new lending