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Wes Mountain

Reporter · AU

Indexed articles, last 90 days
10
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Sep 25, 2026
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Jul 10, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Wes Mountain

    The Melbourne suburbs where property owners are selling at a loss (opens the original)

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    Melbourne home sellers are more likely to make a loss than those in any other Australian capital city, with 11 per cent of home sales in the June quarter making a loss. Just over one in five Melbourne units sold at a loss, almost double the rate of those in Sydney, while 4.3 per cent of house sellers lost money, data from real estate analytics firm Cotality shows. In both cases, Melbourne sellers were the most likely of any capital city to make a loss. By region, the City of Melbourne topped the

  2. Article · Sep 16, 2026 · Wes Mountain

    The suburbs where house sellers want up to $1.75m more than buyer budgets (opens the original)

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    Australian property buyers are underestimating the cost of properties in coveted areas by up to $1.75 million, new data shows, even as prices drop in the current downturn. Analysis comparing Domain search data to median prices across capital cities from August last year through to the end of July shows buyers are searching at lower price points than sellers are asking for their homes in the same area. The disconnect tended to be widest in inner suburbs, Domain’s Matching Demand Report, released

  3. Article · Sep 9, 2026 · Wes Mountain, Caroline Zielinski

    Sea level rise could put a quarter of a million Australian homes at risk by 2100 (opens the original)

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    A quarter of a million homes across Australia worth $274 billion could be lost to sea level rise by 2100, new data shows. Sea levels rising could cost Australia at least $855 billion by the end of the century, across property and land use loss, based on conservative projections of current emissions, the Rising Seas, Rising Bills report from the Climate Council revealed on Thursday. Queensland is set to lose the most homes, with more than a third of those affected concentrated in the Gold Coast.

  4. Article · Aug 21, 2026 · Wes Mountain

    How much it costs to live in Melbourne’s most desired school zones (opens the original)

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    Shane McCullagh and his partner, Safia Desai, had worked in remote communities for years. Moving back to Melbourne, they wanted their kids to go to a good school, close to the city and work. It was a two-year process to get into the coveted Princes Hill Secondary College school zone – the pair, both trained as teachers, had started renting nearby. Their two children attended Carlton North Primary, and they wanted to stay in the area for secondary school. Many Melbourne home buyers consider schoo

  5. Article · Aug 5, 2026 · Wes Mountain

    This is how many home owners are actually in negative equity now (opens the original)

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    Fewer than 1 per cent of home owners are in negative equity across Australia, and first home buyers with low deposits are often buying in areas less affected by the property market downturn. With house prices falling more than 3 per cent in both Melbourne and Sydney in the June quarter, according to Domain data, prominent agents and commentators have raised concerns about the loan-to-value ratio (LVR) of recent first home buyers and the threat of going into negative equity. Negative equity is wh

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