Australian Property Review

Welcome back to the Australian Property Review podcast. This episode is about the deals and decisions that look good upfront, but can turn expensive later. Ryan and Mady talk through four traps showing up right now: why super suddenly looks more attractive after the budget why a slowing economy does not automatically mean easier rates how a cheap building quote can blow out later and why a high co...

Welcome back to the Australian Property Review podcast. This episode gets into a question that sounds simple at first, but gets messy very quickly: when governments say they’re targeting wealth and trimming tax perks, who actually ends up feeling the pressure? Ryan and Mady talk through what happens when policy leaves the speech and hits the real world — renters, small landlords, investor borrowin...

The politics sounds simple: hit wealth, trim tax perks, make housing fairer. The real-world version is a lot messier. In this episode, Ryan and Maedeh unpack who may actually feel exposed when housing tax settings change — renters, small landlords, young buyers, young investors, SMSF investors and families using trusts. They get into: why renters do not automatically win when investors get hit why...

Everyone talks about housing pressure like it’s one clean story. It’s not. In this episode, Ryan and Maedeh unpack how the squeeze is spreading through first-home buyers, stressed suburbs, borrowers, renters, investors and even the kind of homes Australians keep trying to buy. They get into: why the hard part for some first-home buyers starts after settlement why borrowers are running out of easy...

A lot of people think the safe move right now is to hold cash, wait, and do nothing stupid. But what if that’s exactly where the damage is happening? In this episode, Ryan and Maedeh talk through the big ideas from the articles published last week at Australian Property Review, cash losing ground to inflation, investor bias, the Reserve Bank’s inflation mess, Victoria’s holiday-home squeeze, and w...

Australia’s property story is no longer moving in one straight line. In this episode, Ryan and Maedeh unpack the big themes from the articles published last week at Australian Property Review: why Sydney and Melbourne are no longer telling the whole national story, why Perth and Brisbane still matter, why Western Sydney buyers are still fighting for every home, how investor tax fears are freezing...

This week on Australian Property Review, we’re looking at the most frustrating shift in the market right now: prices are still holding up in plenty of places, but for buyers, renters and borrowers, housing feels harder than ever to actually live through. Western Sydney buyers are fighting for every home, rents are tightening again, fixed-rate nerves are back, and even a softer auction market is no...

APRA has quietly changed the rules for Australian property investors – and it’s not just about the 3% buffer anymore. From 2026, a new 6x debt-to-income (DTI) cap means some investors will hit a hard wall on borrowing, even if interest rates fall. In this video, Australian Property Review breaks it down in plain English: What APRA’s new 6x DTI cap actually is Who’s most at risk (and who probably i...

A fresh cut of national credit data shows first-home buyer intent is surging even as overall mortgage balances edge lower year-on-year. The pattern points to an affordability ceiling: buyers are funnelling into suburbs with solid transport links and a deep pool of units and townhouses that sit under common lending thresholds. Below we’ve mapped the busiest entry-level corridors and the “opportunit...