Property market news, written to be useful.

Australian property news on this site is narrowly scoped on purpose. The brief is monetary policy, lending regulation, tax policy, and market data — the inputs that actually move mortgage repayments, borrowing capacity, and after-tax property returns. Auction clearance gossip, celebrity sales, and developer press releases are out of scope. If a story does not change a number on a calculator or a paragraph in a guide, it is not covered. Coverage centres on four sources. RBA monetary policy decisions and the Statement on Monetary Policy are reported the day they are released, with the cash rate trajectory and the implied repayment impact on a standard $600,000 and $1,000,000 loan. APRA prudential changes — most importantly any movement in the 3% serviceability buffer or macroprudential lending limits — are covered when announced, with borrowing-power impact modelled against the [borrowing power calculator](/calc/borrowing-power). ATO and Treasury announcements affecting property tax (CGT, negative gearing, depreciation, foreign investor rules) are covered in plain English with links to the underlying ruling or bill. State budget announcements affecting stamp duty, land tax, and first home buyer schemes are covered per jurisdiction. Every news item carries a published date and a last-reviewed date in the header. This is not cosmetic. Property finance content goes stale fast — a guide to stamp duty thresholds written in 2022 is actively misleading by 2024, and a piece on serviceability buffers from 2021 was wrong within months. Dating everything visibly lets readers triage what is current and what is historical context. The audience this is written for is owner-occupiers refinancing or upgrading, investors managing portfolios across multiple states, mortgage brokers needing a citable source for client conversations, and buyer's agents tracking regulatory shifts. The reading level assumes familiarity with terms like LVR, DTI, P&I, and marginal tax rate — there is a [glossary](/glossary) for everything else. The full feed is below, sorted newest first. Older items remain accessible and dated rather than being deleted, so the historical record of how the regulatory and rate environment evolved is preserved.