Factory-built housing promises to slash construction costs and build times at a moment when Australia badly needs both. The technology already works — the harder problem has been getting banks, regulators and buyers to trust it.
Treasury's new national housing plan puts $47 billion behind a target of 1.2 million homes by 2029. A government-commissioned report released two months earlier shows the country already falling short of the pace required to get there.
A shortage of 300,000 construction workers by 2027 is quietly wrecking Australia's housing targets — and the cost is already showing up in build times, project prices, and approvals that go nowhere.
The rental vacancy rate is one of the most quoted figures in Australian property — and one of the most misunderstood. Here's what it really measures, how it's calculated, and why two "official" numbers can disagree.
Australia's property investment story in 2026 is no longer being written in Sydney or Melbourne. After three years of relentless market activity, the nation's smaller capitals
