Caroline Zielinski
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‘No clarity’: New rules leave home buyers and sellers in the dark (opens the original)
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Home buyers and sellers trying to research sale prices for properties in their area have been left in the dark about where to find information under new state laws that begin on Thursday. From October 1, Victorian real estate agents will be required to disclose the sale price of a home within seven days of a sale, and make this information publicly available for at least 18 months following the sale. This can be disclosed on the Property Price Statement (which will replace the Statement of Infor
Melbourne’s typical home is now worth less than it was five years ago (opens the original)
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It’s cheaper to buy a home in Melbourne today than it was five years ago, as high interest rates and a flurry of building activity in the outer suburbs push values down. Melbourne’s median home value is 1.6 per cent lower than it was five years ago, at $797,354, after falling again in July, Cotality data shows. Since 2021, Melbourne’s property market has faced numerous headwinds, including interest rate rises, a series of land and investor tax changes and global economic uncertainty. It has also
‘Amazing and completely brutal’: Home once crowned Victoria’s most outstanding for sale (opens the original)
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When Esther Clerehan, 65, looks around Fenner House, she remembers it as she first saw it more than 60 years ago. Esther’s father, the acclaimed Melbourne architect and writer Neil Clerehan, designed the heritage-listed modernist brick townhouse in 1964 for the Fenner family, who were retired pastoralists. “You know how when you first see a space as a child and then go back as an adult, and it’s so much smaller?” Esther says. “Well, that’s not what I feel like here. The proportions are generous
The pay rise buyers needed to keep up in property market (opens the original)
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Despite a decline in home values, households who have been searching for a house to buy this year will still need a pay rise just to keep up. In just six months, a household would have to find thousands of dollars of additional earnings to qualify for a loan to purchase a typical house due to rising mortgage costs, even though that house is now cheaper, new Cotality research shows. In Melbourne, someone trying to buy the median house in January would have needed a household income of $103,877. B
Melbourne suburbs where home values plunged most since the last peak (opens the original)
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Suburbs in Melbourne’s inner east have experienced the biggest fall in home values since their recent highs at the end of last year, with homes in some suburbs falling by more than 12 per cent. Deepdene, a small suburb nestled among the prime inner-eastern suburbs of Kew, Camberwell, Balwyn and Hawthorn, has dropped the most from its cyclical peak, with values in the area down 14.1 per cent, or $367,139, since September 2025, new Cotality data shows. Other suburbs where median home values have a
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