New research has found that long-term property ownership remains vital to achieving robust capital growth, with some locations outperforming others significantly.

The sell-off of investment properties around the nation is continuing unabated and is fuelling fears of an even tighter rental market with higher holding and compliance costs as well as new property taxes to blame, according to the 2024 PIPA Annual Investor Sentiment Survey.

The inaugural 2024 PIPA Awards for Excellence were held in Sydney recently where the crème de la crème of the property investment profession was recognised for their commitment to best practice, ethics, and the PIPA Code of Conduct.

Governments are using private investors as scapegoats for a shocking underinvestment in social housing while raking in tens of billions of dollars in property taxes each year.

The Property Investment Professionals of Australia have elected two new board directors in Newcastle-based MCG Quantity Surveyors Managing Director Mike Mortlock and Melbourne-based Cate Bakos Property Director Cate Bakos.

Tampering with negative gearing and capital gains tax concessions would cost the Federal Government up to $58 billion over just 10 years and gut the already-stretched rental market of supply, according to new research.

The final report from the Senate Inquiry into the worsening rental crisis in Australia produced no collective recommendations whatsoever and was a waste of taxpayers’ money, according to the Property Investment Professionals of Australia (PIPA).

Startling new research shows hundreds of thousands of rental properties have been stripped from rental markets around the nation with investors offloading properties in Victoria and Queensland in particular – the states leading the war on private landlords.

Rapidly rising interest rates have seen Aussie property investors forced to fork out tens of billions of dollars in extra mortgage repayments, new analysis has revealed.

The highest stamp duty in the country, a new land tax set to slug mum and dad investors, the threat of rent controls, and more than 100 tenancy reforms in two years has resulted in Victoria being named the worst State for renters in the nation.

The Victorian Government’s new investor land tax grab, announced in its State Budget today, will hurt aspirational and hardworking property owners the most, according to PIPA and PICA.

While Sydney and Melbourne regularly steal the property media headlines, it was our nation’s smaller capital cities that achieved the best median house price growth