Australia’s housing boom has sparked a “flood” of social media influencers and spruikers portraying themselves as qualified property experts to make a quick buck, a peak body has warned.

According to new research by PIPA, only 27% of investors were women and the current housing market conditions are providing opportunities for women to invest and improve their financial conditions.

Surging interest rates. Falling property prices. Rising rents. One out of three pieces of welcome news does not deliver a stellar outlook for Australia’s 2.2 million real estate investors this year.

Soaring rents and a lack of properties to lease have become a crisis across Australia in the last 12 months. Nationally, rents rose 6.7 per cent to a median of $495 per week in 2022, but the issue was much worse in capital cities.

Savvy property investors are likely to re-enter the market in 2023 after a year in which many quit because of fast-rising interest rates and high prices, experts predict.

A tough run all round for Aussie property in 2022. The RBA has hiked interest rates for eight consecutive months, taking the cash rate from 0.10 per cent to 3.10 per cent and that’d be reason enough.

2022 came off the back of 2021, where steep prices rises were seen. Experts agree the rental crisis will worsen, and it is likely we are nearing the end of the rapid interest rate rise cycle. Some experts believe house prices will actually rise next year.

Despite tighter lending conditions and interest rate rises, two brokers say there is no slowdown in the number of investors entering the property market.

The city of churches has made its mark on the nation’s property market in 2022, with experts suggesting the city is ‘well ahead of the game already’ for 2023.

NSW will outlaw rental bidding, bringing it in line with regulations already in place in Victoria and Western Australia, but the country’s largest real estate agency said rules already in place prevented property managers playing off renters against each other.

Two more potential solutions to Australia’s rental crisis are examined, including how lowering the lending buffer may encourage investors to re-enter the market and how accepting offers of higher rent could fuel the rental affordability side of the crisis.

Two potential solutions to Australia’s rental crisis are examined, including how a change in mindset could help bring landlords and tenants on the same page and how axing stamp duty could ease the pressure.