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Jun 12, 2026

WE'RE NOT PANICKING :-)

The phone calls started the morning after the budget. You know the ones. "Should I sell before the negative gearing changes come in?" "Is this the end of the investor market?" "My accountant sent me a

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Jun 4, 2026

WHY NOBODY'S SELLING THE FAMILY HOME

There's a quiet little drama playing out in Australian suburbs right now, and almost nobody's talking about it at the BBQ. The family homes aren't moving. You know the ones. Three or four bedrooms,

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May 26, 2026

BUDGET NIGHT: WHO ACTUALLY WALKED AWAY SMILING?

If you watched this year's federal budget hoping for a genuine reset, you'd be forgiven for feeling a little flat. From where we're sitting, it looked less like a plan to fix anything and more like a

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May 18, 2026

BUDGET 2026: WHAT THE HEADLINES MISS

It's budget season again, and like clockwork, the housing announcements have arrived already neatly packaged for the six o'clock news. A new $2 billion local infrastructure fund. An extended ban on fo

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May 11, 2026

THE FIRST HOME BUYER MATH NO ONE WANTS TO DO

Every few months, a fresh round of commentary turns up declaring the first home buyer extinct. It's a tidy headline. It's also not what we're seeing on the ground. What we are seeing is more interes

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May 5, 2026

THEY CALLED US BORING :-(

Not us personally. Brisbane. Writer David Malouf once described this city as "so sleepy, so slatternly, so sprawlingly unlovely... simply the most ordinary place in the world." A property analys

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Apr 28, 2026

NEGATIVE GEARING, CGT, AND THE FEDERAL BUDGET: WHAT'S ACTUALLY TRUE?

It's that time again. The Federal Budget is around the corner (mark Tuesday 12 May in the diary), and like clockwork, the housing tax debate is back. Negative gearing is "the reason young people can't

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Apr 23, 2026

MORE PEOPLE, NOT THE PROBLEM

There's a familiar argument doing the rounds again. Housing is expensive, therefore migration is to blame, therefore stop migration and prices fall. It sounds logical. It's not. Australia's populat