Australia
Australia: the market, agents and agencies from Sydney to Perth, state by state.
Queensland has its own magazine: Queensland Estate.
Western Australia's REBA trust accounts: banking, interest and audit
What Western Australia's Real Estate and Business Agents Act asks of an agency holding client money: the account, daily records, where interest goes, the 31 March audit and the fines.
Western Australia's renting rules: rent rises, pets, bonds and notice
How renting works in Western Australia after the 2024 reforms: the rent bidding ban, one rent rise every 12 months, pets, small changes, the bond and the notice to leave.
Settlement agents in Western Australia: licences, fees and safeguards
How Western Australia licenses settlement agents: the two licences, the triennial certificate, fee disclosure since 2016, trust accounts, insurance and the line with lawyers.
Selling a strata lot in Western Australia: what must be disclosed
What a Western Australian strata seller must hand over before the buyer signs, what must be notified afterwards, when the buyer may avoid the contract, and how little a house sale requires.
Western Australia: transfer duty and land tax on a home, with examples
What a home costs in state tax in Western Australia: the transfer duty scale, the off-the-plan concession, the foreign rate, and the yearly land tax and metropolitan levy, with worked examples.
Australia's big four banks pass on the cash rate rise from 9 October
Variable home loan rates at Westpac, NAB, CBA and ANZ rise by 0.25 points on 9 October, as a Victorian mortgage stress service reports the greatest demand it has seen.
Australia's capital city house rents stall at A$700 a week
Domain's September quarter figures, reported by the ABC, show capital city house rents flat and unit rents at a record, with Sydney and Canberra recording falls.
Australia final auction clearance rate falls to 45.4%, Melbourne week ahead
Cotality's final count for the long weekend puts the combined capitals at 45.4%, the lowest since July. Melbourne now lines up about 750 auctions for the week ahead.
Australia's foreign buyer ban to 2029: what can be bought and the fees
Foreign persons cannot buy established homes in Australia under a ban announced to run to 30 June 2029. What stays open to them, the 2026-27 application fees and how the vacancy fee works.
Australia's Housing Accord at two years: 124,000 homes behind pace
The UDIA counts 355,820 homes built in two years against 480,000 needed. The HIA's count of the gap is smaller, and New South Wales reports its best year in five.
Australia: KPMG says new-build spending up 20%, rebuilds down 32%
A KPMG Australia analysis published on 5 October 2026 finds four years of rising spending on new homes, a fall in knock-down rebuilds and A$56.2 billion spent on renovations.
Australia's homes for sale rise 21.6% in a year as buyers hold back
SQM Research counted 276,839 listings across Australia in September, a fifth more than a year earlier. What the count, and REA Group's chief, tell vendors.
Australia: PropertyMe links agencies' own AI assistants to live data
PropertyMe's AiMe Connect lets Australian agencies question live property-management records from their own Claude or ChatGPT account. What was announced, and what it raises.
Why Australia fixes so few home loans, and how the US and Korea differ
An ABC report of 9 October sets Australia's variable-rate mortgage market beside the United States, Japan and South Korea. Reserve Bank papers explain the gap.
New South Wales agent licences: class 1, class 2 and CPD in 2026-27
How New South Wales licenses its property agents: what a certificate, a class 2 and a class 1 licence each allow, how to qualify, and the training hours owed in 2026-27.
How to become an accredited auctioneer in New South Wales
Who can call a property auction in New South Wales, how accreditation is obtained and kept, and the rules on registering bidders, the single vendor bid and dummy bidding.
NSW contract for sale and Victoria's Section 32: what is disclosed
New South Wales wants a full contract ready before a home is marketed. Victoria wants a signed vendor statement before the buyer signs. What each must contain.
New South Wales conveyancers: licences, limits and costs disclosure
How a conveyancer is licensed in New South Wales, the work the licence allows and forbids, and what must be put in writing for the client before the work starts.
New South Wales transfer duty: 2026-27 rates and first home relief
How Revenue NSW works out transfer duty in 2026-27, when the buyer has to pay it, and what the First Home Buyers Assistance Scheme takes off the bill for a first home.
Victoria sales authority: commission, rebates and how a fee is lost
What a Victorian sales authority must say about commission, expenses, rebates and commission sharing, how the fee is paid, and the cases where an agent cannot claim it.