Most of the price data that clutters up the airways is essentially useless information. Boffins sitting in an office in Paris look at a numb…

With each passing week, the rhetoric on housing issues becomes less and less rational. On topics such as affordability and negative gearing,…

Tony Abbott is absolutely right. There’s something I never imagined I would ever say, but the Prime Minister is spot on with his comments …

It’s sadly typical of real estate investment that the most popular places for buyers are also the worst places to buy. Investors are pilin…

Greenvale is a mining town 220 kilometres north-west of Townsville. Or it used to be. Once it had a population of 3000. Today it barely exis…

AMP’s chief economist Shane Oliver says “Australian property prices are over-valued” and that “rising house prices” are making Aus…

I imagine there will always be people who see the CBD as the beacon for all things real estate. They are the diehards who measure property i…

Do the economists and journalists who attribute Sydney’s busy market to low interest rates ever wonder why other cities aren’t pumping? …

Consumers should always treat the words of real estate agents and their representative bodies with caution. Many of the grubbiest aspects of…

The anguish – in some cases, outrage – expressed in media about the so-called national property boom verges on farcical. The tone and conten…