housing affordability Archive
Strategic Financial Advice
The Australian housing market continues to shift in 2025, with interest rate changes, affordability concerns, and shifting buyer behaviour influencing property trends. Our update breaks down the key movements and what they mean for investors, homeowners, and first-home buyers.
Property
From April 2025 to March 2027, foreign investors will be banned from buying established homes. The measure targets “land banking” and enforces stricter conditions on vacant land purchases, with limited exemptions.
Strategic Financial Advice
Discover how the COVID pandemic has led to bigger government, tighter labor markets, reduced globalisation, higher inflation, worse housing affordability, the rise of working from home, and a faster embrace of technology.