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Joint Tenants Versus Tenants in Common: How You Hold the Title Matters

Holding a property as joint tenants or tenants in common decides who inherits your share and how the tax is split. The box you tick matters.

By Vill Villapando

/ 5 Aug 2026

Joint Tenants Versus Tenants in Common: How You Hold the Title Matters

Every State Banned Rent Bidding. Only Three Actually Stopped It

Rent bidding is banned nationwide, but only three jurisdictions stop landlords accepting a higher offer. In the other five, tenants can still bid up and win.

By Germaine Elpusan

/ 3 Aug 2026

Every State Banned Rent Bidding. Only Three Actually Stopped It

The 7-Star Rule Is Here: What New Energy Standards Mean for Buyers and Builders

New homes must meet a 7-star energy rating in most states, and rental efficiency rules start from 2026-27. Here is what it means for investors.

By Joshua Ure

/ 31 Jul 2026

The 7-Star Rule Is Here: What New Energy Standards Mean for Buyers and Builders

Help to Buy is now open nationwide: the 2% deposit scheme, its catches, and how it compares to the 5% scheme

Help to Buy is now open in every state and territory. Here is how the 2% deposit scheme works, who qualifies, the catches that trip people up, and how it stacks up against the 5% scheme.

By Danny Nguyen

/ 29 Jul 2026

Help to Buy is now open nationwide: the 2% deposit scheme, its catches, and how it compares to the 5% scheme

You Don't Buy Property, You Become the Person Who Owns It

The gap between people who buy an investment property and people who keep meaning to isn't money. It's identity. Here's how to start closing it this week.

By Evy Sia

/ 22 Jul 2026

You Don't Buy Property, You Become the Person Who Owns It

Agents can rank you before you reach the open home: the privacy watchdog is now reviewing how

Agents now use AI to score buyers before they reach the door. In January 2026 the privacy watchdog launched its first sweep of how that data is collected.

By pranjal rajput

/ 21 Jul 2026

Agents can rank you before you reach the open home: the privacy watchdog is now reviewing how

How to take years off your mortgage as rates climb

A $750,000 loan at 6.34 per cent costs about $928,000 in interest. Ten ways to cut that bill and clear the debt years early.

By Bruce Guan

/ 20 Jul 2026

How to take years off your mortgage as rates climb

A Goal Without a Plan Is Just a Wish

A savings goal won't buy property. A dated, automated plan will, and for owner-occupiers the 5% Deposit Scheme shrinks the target.

By Bruce Guan

/ 16 Jul 2026

Where Australia's 300,000 New Migrants Are Landing, and What It Means for Property

Net migration fell to 306,000, but Perth, Brisbane and regional Australia are soaking up the arrivals, tightening rents and lifting prices where supply is thinnest.

By Danny Nguyen

/ 15 Jul 2026

Where Australia's 300,000 New Migrants Are Landing, and What It Means for Property

Can Build-to-Rent and the New Tax Settings Actually Move the Supply Needle?

Build-to-rent now has Australia's most generous tax settings. We weigh whether that is enough to dent a housing shortfall of tens of thousands of homes a year.

By Evy Sia

/ 14 Jul 2026

Can Build-to-Rent and the New Tax Settings Actually Move the Supply Needle?

From "I Can't Afford It" to "How Can I Afford It?"

Most people talk themselves out of their first investment property before they've done a single thing about it. They hear a price, feel that familiar drop in the

By Germaine Elpusan

/ 10 Jul 2026

From "I Can't Afford It" to "How Can I Afford It?"

Modular Homes Could Cut Building Costs by 20 Per Cent. So Why Is Australia Still Building the Slow Way?

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.

By Joshua Ure

/ 9 Jul 2026

Modular Homes Could Cut Building Costs by 20 Per Cent. So Why Is Australia Still Building the Slow Way?