In the three months to December 2025, 24.5% of mortgage holders were classified as "at risk" of mortgage stress, down 3.4 percentage points from August and the lowest reading since January 2023.

Lewis Pentelow, 32, was purchasing a Melbourne home for more than $600,000 when he received what looked like a routine email from his conveyancer requesting the initial deposit, Yahoo Finance reports.

That shift is landing on top of an already stretched market, as Australia heads into 2026 with renters facing one of the ...

After more than 50 years serving communities from Lithgow and Bathurst to the wider Central West, Family First has moved from ...

When Louise Lucas (pictured), a standout 5-Star Broker 2025, became a mortgage broker in 2007, the role looked very different ...

The same hotspots that have powered this upswing remain in front. Perth and Darwin again recorded the fastest annual house price gains, with increases close to 20%, while Brisbane also posted strong ...

Australian Broker talks to Woolnough about what's happening in the broker channel and how he's settling into the new gig The executive shares his thoughts on Australia's commercial lending landscape ...

As the Reserve Bank of Australia’s (RBA) first meeting of 2026 draws closer, market participants are placing bets around ...

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, residents from Australia’s southern states have been moving to Queensland in record numbers. Queensland’s pandemic response, the housing affordability in ...

KPMG’s city-by-city forecasts show Perth out in front with house prices expected to rise 12.8% in 2026, followed by Brisbane (10.9%), Darwin (10.5%) and Adelaide (8.2%). Melbourne (6.8%), Sydney (5.8% ...