Spain is in the middle of a political reckoning over housing. Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has called an early ...

Most real estate agents are professional and operate in a heavily regulated industry. Deliberately misleading buyers can have serious legal and reputational consequences. Some agents use psychological ...

The Victorian Greens have proposed landlord licensing and a three-strikes system. This is a political proposal, not an existing requirement for ordinary residential landlords. Serious and repeated ...

Melbourne property investors have endured almost a decade of disappointing growth, and the usual explanation is taxes, debt and government policy. But what if the biggest cause was the extraordinary ...

Australia’s housing pipeline is changing shape. Detached-house approvals are holding up, but apartment and townhouse approvals have fallen sharply. Student-visa reforms may slow household formation ...

Over the past month, the Labor government, the Coalition and One Nation have all announced new migration policies. Although they differ in some respects they have one feature in common: a focus on net ...

Australia's spring property market has failed to gain its usual momentum, with home sales down more than 20% compared with the same period last year. Total advertised stock increased 19.1%, indicating ...

More than 60 per cent of surveyed small and medium residential and commercial developers expect the proposed discretionary trust changes to affect project timing or viability. Among developers ...

Know your numbers before investing. Understanding purchase costs, cash flow, tax implications and borrowing capacity is essential to building a successful property portfolio. Capital growth should be ...