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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

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Feb 4, 2026

THE YEAR THE MARKET LEARNS HOW TO BREATHE AGAIN

For the last few years, property has felt like a person holding their breath. Tight. Reactive. Nervous. One headline away from either panic or euphoria. But 2026 is shaping up differently. Not lou

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Jan 26, 2026

THE MARKET, THE MOOD & THE MONEY

Every January, the market does that thing where it stretches, rubs its eyes and decides who it’s going to be for the year. Cotality’s January Monthly Housing Chart Pack just dropped, and it’s one of

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Jan 20, 2026

WHEN EVERYWHERE FEELS EXPENSIVE

There was a time when housing stress had a postcode. If prices surged in one city, you looked elsewhere. If inner-city felt impossible, you widened the circle. If coastal markets overheated, regional