The Role Most Apartment Owners Only Think About When Something Goes Wrong If you own a unit, townhouse, or apartment in a multi-lot development in Australia, you’re automatically part of an owners corporation (called a “body corporate” in Queensland, “strata company” in WA) — a legal entity responsible for managing the building’s common property, finances, […]
Read MoreThe Professional Most Buyers Don’t Understand Until They Need One Ask most first-time property buyers what a conveyancer does, and you’ll typically get a vague answer involving “paperwork” or “the legal stuff.” That’s not wrong, but it understates a role that sits at the centre of every property transaction’s legal and financial risk management — […]
Read MoreThe Number on the Contract Is Never the Real Number Every property buyer eventually learns this, usually partway through their first purchase: the advertised or negotiated purchase price is only the starting point. A realistic budget needs to account for a layered set of additional costs — some mandatory, some optional but advisable — that […]
Read MoreThe Shift Is Real, and It’s Measurable In the December 2025 quarter, mortgage brokers arranged 76.7% of all new residential home loans in Australia, according to the Mortgage & Finance Association of Australia’s (MFAA) Quarterly Market Share Report, compiled using data from Cotality (formerly CoreLogic). That figure represents $142.2 billion in new lending — up […]
Read MoreWhy More Australians Are Hiring a Buyer’s Agent Than Ever Before Buyer’s agent involvement in Australian property transactions has roughly tripled since 2020, climbing from around 4–5% of purchases to an estimated 14–15% by 2025, according to analysis from Azzato Property Group cited by industry publications. The number of practising buyer’s agents nationally has grown […]
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Introduction If you’ve started looking into buying property in Australia’s tighter capital city markets, you’ve probably come across the term “buyer’s agent” more than once. Also called a buyer’s advocate, this is a licensed property professional whose only job is to represent you — the buyer — throughout a purchase. Not the seller. Not the […]
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Introduction If you’ve started looking into buying property in Australia’s tighter capital city markets, you’ve probably come across the term “buyer’s agent” more than once. Also called a buyer’s advocate, this is a licensed property professional whose only job is to represent you — the buyer — throughout a purchase. Not the seller. Not the […]
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Introduction Here’s a statistic that surprises a lot of people outside the finance industry: mortgage brokers arranged 76.7% of all new home loans written in Australia in the December 2025 quarter, according to the MFAA’s Cotality-compiled Quarterly Market Share Report. That’s not a niche channel anymore — it’s the majority pathway most Australians now use […]
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Introduction Selling a home is a bigger project than most first-time sellers expect, and 2026’s market has added an extra layer of complexity: forecasts for the year ahead genuinely diverge between major research houses. KPMG has projected national house price growth around 7.7% for 2026, ANZ Research has been notably more conservative at roughly 2.8%, […]
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Introduction If you’re buying or selling property in Australia, you’ll need a conveyancer or a property solicitor at some point in the process — but plenty of people go through an entire transaction without fully understanding what that professional is actually doing on their behalf. Here’s the plain-English breakdown. What Conveyancing Actually Covers Conveyancing is […]
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