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Rents rise by up to 80 per cents in parts of Australia
3+ week, 23+ hour ago (49+ words) Rents in some capital cities have risen by up to 80 per cent in the last five years, data from Cotality suggests. August 23, 2026 — 9:35am...
Price wars in perpetuity: Discounts (and Ooshies) usher in Woolies’ resurgence
2+ week, 4+ day ago (638+ words) August 26, 2026 — 4:00pm The supermarket wars have stepped up a notch as Coles continued its run of strong results and Woolworths turned a corner, showing real signs of bringing back the fight to its major competitor. For the first time in years,…...
Five charts that explain what’s really happening with housing
3+ week, 4+ day ago (759+ words) August 19, 2026 — 4:04pm The deep drop in new mortgage applications is a stark illustration of how much the housing market has fallen – and some experts are warning we are yet to reach the bottom. Since the May budget, all four major banks…...
$40,000 wiped off the value of the average house over winter
1+ week, 6+ day ago (822+ words) capital city bar Darwin, easing by 1.1 per cent in Melbourne and Canberra, 1 per cent in Brisbane, 0.8 per...Despite the drop in values this year, every city bar Melbourne is still up on where it was five years ago while...
High rents a roadblock to productivity
3+ week, 1+ day ago (526+ words) August 23, 2026 — 6:00am The interests of renters are often treated as a footnote in Sydney’s never-ending conversation about property prices. But even with the recent dip in house prices, buying a property remains out of reach for many – especially buying a home…...
Retailers on the ropes as consumers all but close their wallets
3+ week, 4+ day ago (624+ words) August 19, 2026 — 3:50pm Punch-drunk retailers are attempting to lift themselves off the mat as consumers give them a dose of their own financial reality, keeping cash in their pockets. At the halfway mark of this year’s earnings season, the shareholder jury has…...
‘In my country, gifts like this are often given’: Businessman sentenced over $20k hidden in tea
3+ week, 3+ day ago (576+ words) August 20, 2026 — 12:32pm A Chinese businessman who disguised $20,000 cash in a gift box of breakfast tea in a bid to speed up his solar company’s applications before Australia’s Clean Energy Council was heard saying he knew it was “against the law”. Guoxin…...
Rents spike up to 80 per cent as people are pushed from homes to units
3+ week, 1+ day ago (848+ words) market, including the drop in values in Sydney and Melbourne plus record-high rents, has become a political...International student-loaded areas in Sydney and Melbourne have experienced rent increases almost as large....jumped by between $367 and $452 a week. Central Melbourne rents…...
Nasty shock in new inflation data
2+ week, 4+ day ago (39+ words) Fresh inflation figures have come in higher than economists had expected in a potential blow for borrowers. August 26, 2026 — 12:23pm...
Should I sell my $1m investment property and put it into my super?
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1104+ words) August 26, 2026 — 5:01am I’m a young retiree at 61 years. I have a $500,000 share portfolio and a 20-year-held investment property worth $1 million. I’m of a mind to sell the property and realise the share portfolio over the next four years, and slowly use…...