If you’re interested in property, do you have all your ducks in a row and are ready to negotiate? At this point in the journey, it can often feel like all the heavy lifting is done and that negotiating and buying a property is just a small piece of the puzzle. While it can feelRead More
Thinking of buying a property and don’t know the numbers? Given the current tax changes and economic environment, you’re not investing — you’re gambling. With negative gearing and capital gains tax both changing, the gap between investors who run the numbers and those who don’t is about to get much wider. That is why itRead More
![Brisbane Housing Market Update [video] | October 2026](https://cdn.metropole.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/brisbane2.jpg)
Brisbane has done something this month that would have been unthinkable a year ago: it recorded the steepest monthly price fall of any Australian capital city. Values dropped 1.5% in September, edging past Sydney’s 1.4% decline and taking the market 5.4% below its May peak. That decline has effectively erased ten months of gains. BrisbaneRead More
![Melbourne Housing Market Update [video] | October 2026](https://cdn.metropole.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/7-e1752828126175.jpg)
For the first time in nearly a year, Melbourne has something that could cautiously be described as good news. Values fell 0.7% in September — the tenth consecutive monthly decline, but also the smallest monthly fall since March. That matters because Melbourne has spent this entire cycle as the market with no bottom in sight.Read More
![Sydney Housing Market Update [video] | October 2026](https://cdn.metropole.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/sydney.jpg)
Sydney’s correction has now cost the median homeowner roughly $112,000. September delivered another 1.4% fall, capping a September quarter in which values dropped 4.9% and leaving the market 8.6% below the record high set in February. Eight months ago Sydney was at a peak. It has given up more than eight percent of its valueRead More
