Property Intelligence
132 Intelligence pieces published
APF Intelligence publishes original market analysis covering Australian residential property, investment strategy, interest rates, and housing policy. Reports are written using RBA cash rate decisions and minutes, ABS dwelling and lending statistics, CoreLogic Home Value Indices, SQM Research vacancy data, and weekend auction clearance rate feeds from Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Canberra. Each piece is datestamped, sourced, and written in plain English without spruiker tone or vendor bias.
Coverage is organised into five streams: RBA & Macro for monetary policy and economy-wide signals; Sydney & Melbourne for the two largest capital city markets; National Property for cross-capital and regional trends; Property Finance for mortgage strategy, LVR and serviceability analysis; and Property Insurance for landlord and building cover. Use the category filters to focus on the topics most relevant to your situation, whether you're a first home buyer timing your entry, an investor rebalancing a portfolio, or simply tracking where the market is heading this cycle. New Intelligence is published only after verification.
Nationwide residential market data including capital growth, rental yields, and housing supply.
National PropertyApprovals Slide Deepens a Supply Problem
Housing approvals fell again in August, with apartment approvals hit hardest, casting fresh doubt over Labor's national target of 1.2 million new homes and adding pressure to an already stretched rental and ownership market.
30 Sept 2026
housing approvalsNational Housing Accord
National PropertyBeveridge Cattle Farm Hits Market With Hopes of $300m for 4,500 Homes
A cattle farm on Melbourne's northern fringe has hit the market with hopes of fetching $300 million, positioned to become a 4,500-home estate larger than the city's CBD footprint.
29 Sept 2026
MelbourneBeveridge
National PropertyInvestor With 150 Properties Names Five Boomtowns
Investor Sam Gordon, who holds more than 150 properties, has named five Australian markets he expects to keep growing despite a broader downturn, with Perth, Adelaide and regional pockets among his picks.
28 Sept 2026
property investmentmarket forecast
National PropertyRocklea's Sherwood Rd Tops Brisbane for Listing Views, Beating New Farm
A Brisbane street outside the city's blue-chip enclaves has topped realestate.com.au's most-searched list, revealing a demand shift away from New Farm and Ascot toward more affordable, lifestyle-driven pockets.
27 Sept 2026
Brisbane propertyQueensland real estate
National PropertyMelbourne Tradie Forced to Sell Investment Property After $1200 Monthly Losses
New data shows 60% of South Australian homes bought through a low-deposit scheme have lost value, with suburb growth ranging from Nedlands' 15% to Dandenong's 2.3%, exposing the capital-growth bet behind low-deposit entry.
26 Sept 2026
negative equitySouth Australia
National PropertyAdelaide's Newmarket Hotel Site Returns With Dual-Tower Play
The owners of Adelaide's Newmarket Hotel site have relaunched sales with dual-tower development approval after failing to sell last year, a test case for CBD site values amid the RBA's 4.35% cash rate.
25 Sept 2026
Adelaide propertyCBD development
National PropertyRegional Downsizing Model Eases Queensland Housing Stress
A regional Queensland community is using targeted downsizing to free up family homes and ease acute housing stress, offering a model other regional markets are watching closely.
22 Sept 2026
regional Queenslanddownsizing
National PropertyBoutique Builder Founders Sell Their Adelaide Reno Project
The founders of a boutique Adelaide building company are selling their own renovation project, offering a rare, insider look at how professional builders extract value from South Australia's property market — and what that means for investors watching Adelaide's continued price growth.
20 Sept 2026
Adelaiderenovation
National PropertyFirst Home Buyer Bids $190k Under Reserve, Unit Sells for $492k
A first home buyer opened bidding at $190,000 on an outer east unit that ultimately sold for $492,000 — $330,000 below the top of the guidance range they bid against. The incident exposes a wider crisis of price literacy among first home buyers entering the market.
19 Sept 2026
first home buyersauction
National Property$150k Fixer-Upper Among Canola Fields Listed as Rural Weekender
A $150,000 fixer-upper listed among canola fields highlights surging buyer interest in ultra-affordable regional property — but the real costs of renovation, holding, and resale demand a hard-headed analysis before weekend escape dreams take over.
18 Sept 2026
regional propertyrural real estate
National Property$370k ATO Penalty Hits Foreign Landbanker in Forced Sale Crackdown
A foreign property investor has been hit with a $370,000 penalty after landbanking a vacant residential plot in Australia, as authorities escalate a major crackdown on offshore buyers holding idle residential land.
17 Sept 2026
foreign investmentATO crackdown
National PropertyBrisbane Couple Lists Hospital Laundry Home Conversion to Downsize
A former hospital laundry building in Brisbane has been converted into an architecturally-designed family home and listed for sale as the owners downsize — a striking example of adaptive reuse reshaping how Australians think about unconventional property stock.
16 Sept 2026
Brisbaneadaptive reuse
National PropertyNew Home Sales Plunge Four Months Straight, Crushing Australia's 1.2M Target
Four consecutive months of falling new home sales — driven in part by May's federal budget — are widening Australia's housing supply gap and putting the government's 1.2 million new homes pledge under severe strain.
15 Sept 2026
housing supplynew home sales
National PropertyAdelaide's 500sqm Victoria Square Apartment Listed for First Time in 26 Years
Adelaide's only private residence overlooking Victoria Square has hit the market for the first time in 26 years, with 500 square metres of floor space priced at circa $3 million — a per-square-metre figure that underscores Adelaide's persistent value gap against Sydney and Melbourne luxury benchmarks.
14 Sept 2026
Adelaideluxury property
National PropertyCo-Housing Gains Traction as Australians Abandon Traditional Ownership
A growing number of Australians are rejecting traditional home ownership in favour of co-housing arrangements — shared living models that pool resources, reduce costs, and build community. The Sydney Morning Herald reports the shift is accelerating as affordability pressures mount nationally.
13 Sept 2026
co-housinghousing affordability
National PropertyVictorian Goldfields Schoolhouse Listed From $99,000 — Gold Beneath
A historic schoolhouse and fire-damaged home in Victoria's goldfields region has hit the market from just $99,000, with the land potentially sitting atop gold deposits — a rare distressed-value proposition in a national market where entry-level regional listings are increasingly scarce.
12 Sept 2026
Victorian GoldfieldsRegional Property
National PropertyLabour's Housing Reforms Forecast to Cut 10,700 Homes and Kill Thousands of Jobs
New modelling warns Labor's housing reforms will produce 10,700 fewer homes, push rents higher, and destroy thousands of construction jobs — a finding that cuts against the government's stated goal of fixing Australia's housing shortage.
11 Sept 2026
housing supplyLabor housing policy
National PropertyFour Decades of Downturns: What History Says About 2026 Falls
A review of four decades of Australian property downturns reveals consistent patterns in how markets recover — and which states are best positioned to weather the current correction. REAStats data shows a 33-day gap between WA's fastest and NSW's slowest markets this spring.
9 Sept 2026
property downturnAustralian property market
National PropertyHistoric Coal Miner's Cottage Hits Market in Blackheath
A rare former miner's cottage in a picturesque Blue Mountains village has hit the market, spotlighting the enduring investor appeal of heritage regional properties and the capital gains tax implications for buyers entering Australia's heritage property niche.
8 Sept 2026
Blue Mountainsheritage property
National PropertySeven Bidders Send Bundoora Fixer $95k Over Guide in Spring Opener
A dated Bundoora home drew seven bidders and sold $95,000 above its price guide, exposing a sharp divide between investor demand for value-add stock and the broader softness of Melbourne's spring market.
6 Sept 2026
MelbourneAuction
National PropertyOver-55s "Right-Sizing" Trend Drives New Toowoomba Lifestyle Community
A new wave of over-55s communities is reframing the downsizing conversation as "right-sizing" — and it is quietly redirecting capital and housing stock across Australia's fastest-growing non-Sydney markets.
3 Sept 2026
Over-55s PropertyBrisbane Property
National PropertyAdelaide's $600m Market Square Hotel Listed Before Opening Day
The 40-storey Treehouse Adelaide hotel at the heart of Adelaide's $600 million Market Square development has been listed for sale before it has opened — a striking signal of both investor appetite and developer strategy in South Australia's surging commercial property sector.
1 Sept 2026
AdelaideCommercial Property
National PropertyWhat the Light Rail Extension Actually Means for Burleigh Heads
The latest Gold Coast Light Rail extension is generating fresh buyer optimism in Burleigh Heads, with agents tipping price growth even as broader Queensland property values soften. Infrastructure-driven suburb premiums are back in focus.
31 Aug 2026
Gold CoastBurleigh Heads
National PropertySouth Perth Posts 13.8% Growth as WA Suburbs Hit 15-Day Sales Cycles
South Perth recorded 13.8% annual price growth in August 2026 while Nedlands agents are settling properties in just 15 days — REAStats data reveals WA's off-market buyer pipelines are outpacing comparable markets in NSW and Victoria by a significant margin.
30 Aug 2026
Perth PropertySouth Perth