Australia risks sleepwalking into an unimaginable housing catastrophe if governments implement more “illogical and unusual” policies, experts have warned. 

PIPA is not questioning the need for increased migration to help address the current skills shortage, but our question is: Where are they going to live?

New data has unearthed the best real estate buyers’ markets around Australia, where a surge in listings is seeing the pendulum swing back in favour of potential purchasers.

The property industry has responded to the federal government’s announcement that the permanent migration cap will increase from 160,000 to 195,000.

Since last week’s revelation that the Australian Greens would be pushing for Parliament to introduce a two-year rent freeze, industry players and academics alike have considered the validity and viability of such a proposal.

The push for a two-year rent freeze by the Queensland Greens fundamentally fails to understand average rental growth over the past decade and will increase homelessness as even more investors leave the market.

Despite softening prices, rental from investment property is proving to be the ultimate inflation proof income this year, with income growth running at double the annualised inflation rate across all cities.

New exclusive industry research has found that rents have grown at only half the rate of inflation for more than a decade.

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PIPA Chair Nicola McDougall talks to The Real Estate Podcast about rising interest rates and consumer sentiment.

Headlines lately have been filled with forecasts of a looming housing market correction, with wildly varying predictions of how far prices could dip.

This new report will pull together insights and analysis from seven market experts and PIPA members from the PIPA Adviser quarterly e-magazine’s national market update.