Apart from our regular team of experts, we frequently publish commentary from guest contributors who are authorities in their field.
Three months on from the federal budget changes, the verdict is in, and it isn’t pretty. Fewer first home buyers are active in the market than before the changes landed, and everyday property investors have almost entirely been swept aside. For anyone who has ever wanted to work hard and improve their position by buyingRead More
Are you wondering where property prices are headed and how long we will remain in the doldrums? Every property cycle eventually poses the same question to investors: is this a genuine crash, a soft landing, or something in between? Right now, with national prices falling and confidence at near record lows, those questions are louderRead More
![Brisbane Housing Market Update [video] | August 2026](https://cdn.metropole.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/brisbane2.jpg)
Brisbane spent two years as the market everyone pointed to when they wanted to argue the Australian housing boom still had room to run. That argument no longer holds. Home values fell 0.6% in July 2026, and revised data now confirms this was the second consecutive month of decline, following a 0.1% fall in June.Read More
![Melbourne Housing Market Update [video] | August 2026](https://cdn.metropole.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/7-e1752828126175.jpg)
Melbourne has now recorded eight consecutive months of falling home values, and the July figure — a 1.2% decline — brings the total loss since the November 2025 cyclical peak to 5.1%. In dollar terms, that represents approximately $46,000 removed from the median dwelling value in eight months. But the more revealing number is aRead More
![Sydney Housing Market Update [video] | August 2026](https://cdn.metropole.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/sydney.jpg)
Sydney has now been falling for six straight months, and July delivered the sharpest instalment yet. Home values dropped 1.4% over the month, extending a decline that has run continuously since the market peaked in January. The cumulative loss now stands at 5.3% — roughly $69,000 stripped from the median dwelling value in just overRead More
