Renters are set to take a hit with investors bailing on rentals in areas where costs and red tape are starting to bite, with surprise revelations of what they’re eyeing next.

Victorian first-home buyers are getting priced back into the property market as the time needed to save a deposit drops.

Property investors might be shying away from the market but an unlikely state has emerged as an investor favourite at a time when mortgage arrears keep climbing upwards.

One in five investors who sold within the last 12 months held their properties for less than three years, showing how cost pressures are impacting churn.

Property investors are abandoning the rental market in droves, with new data showing a significant increase in investment property sales over the past year.

A tenant’s union has called out the federal government for increasing rental assistance by about $20, believing they were offering “crumbs disguised as cakes”

The Victorian government has made the Consumer Affairs Victoria underquoting task force permanent but there are fears underlying legislation needs to be strengthened.

The Victorian government has been blamed for driving Melbourne’s property market so far into the ground that the city has plunged to the nation’s sixth-most affluent capital in one key measure.

The Allan government’s new levy will on Airbnb and Stayz homeowners has been met in what many may feel is an unexpected manner by many property experts.

Rentvesting is growing in popularity as soaring property prices spur young people to purchase in more affordable locations while continuing to rent where they want to live.

Thousands of homes approved for Melbourne’s CBD and surrounding suburbs are in jeopardy as alarm bells are raised about developers shelving major projects.

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