Episode Details

In this Australian Property Podcast episode, your hosts Pete Wargent of AllenWargent Property Buyers and Chris Bates from the Alcove mortgage group talk about rate cuts

Topics covered today:

1 – All ingredients are in place for an enduring housing recovery

2 – The pros and cons of moving to regional Aus

3 – A third of Aussie homes now worth $1m

Resources for this episode

RBA delivers a confident cut

• RBA delivers confident, somewhat dovish update – Pete Wargent Blog

• Green light for 0.25% rate cut – MacroBusiness

Employment surges to record high 16.43 million in April

• Unemployment rate steady at 4.1 per cent

Chris Joye on the ingredients for a housing recovery 

A third of homes now worth $1m

• Young Aussie’s rude shock after investment property lost value – news.com.au

• What does $1 million now buy in Australia's housing market – CoreLogic

• What $1 million buys in the housing market – ABC News

NAB dials up return to office push for 5 days per week

24 lenders have cut fixed rates – now seeing fixed rates in the 4s

A third of Aussie homes now worth $1m (Cotality, Eliza Owen)

• What does $1 million now buy in Australia's housing market – CoreLogic

• What $1 million buys in the housing market – ABC News

Australia’s rental crisis is permanent

Is Trump driving Aus house price growth?

Younger generations are delaying home ownership

Listener Q&A

1 – R

I have a commercial property I use for my business in my SMSF. What happens when the policy changes for taxing unrealised gains? Will it be implemented? Is there anything I can do?

2 – Fred Flintstone

I can get a reasonably good fixed rate of 5%. Is it worth fixing or not? What are the benefits of