Market
What is happening in Queensland property, dated and explained.
Passed in at auction: what happens next for seller and highest bidder
When bidding stops short of the reserve, a Queensland auction moves to private talks. What the rules say about the first two business days, cooling-off and price.
State Budget puts $417m into Games venues and $348m into villages
The Queensland Budget of 23 June 2026 funds the first building year of the 2032 venues and the planning of four athlete villages, while two Sunshine Coast transport projects wait.
What the 2026-27 Queensland Budget holds for renters and the RTA
The Queensland Budget of 23 June sets aside $83.4 million for private rental tenancy support and brings no new property taxes. Its papers also show how rental services performed.
Nearly one in four auctions withdrawn as vendors step back
About 23.6 per cent of capital city auctions were withdrawn in the week ending 21 June, Cotality reports, as Brisbane's early clearance rate slipped back to 33.3 per cent.
RTA backs a campaign on home modifications in rental properties
Queensland's Residential Tenancies Authority is supporting a disability network's campaign on home modifications in rentals, and has restated how a tenant asks for one.
How auction clearance rates are counted, and why two sources disagree
One Brisbane auction week in June 2026 produced clearance rates of 31.9%, 34.1% and 18%. Here is how each provider counts, and what a rate can and cannot say.
Brisbane house buyers need $17,000 more income than in January
Cotality's June chart pack, published on 18 June, measures what rising values and rates have done to the household income needed to buy a median Brisbane house or unit.
Roads and sewers funded for 3,270 homes in Central Queensland and Bundaberg
Two Queensland Government statements in mid-June set out five funded infrastructure jobs in Central Queensland and the Bundaberg region, worth about $60 million together.
Queensland puts $5.725 billion behind social and community homes
Ahead of the 2026-27 Budget, the Queensland Government has set out a four-year, $5.725 billion program for social and community housing, with 6,500 homes under way.
Reserve Bank holds at 4.35 per cent as Brisbane auctions stay subdued
The Reserve Bank left the cash rate at 4.35 per cent on 16 June, its first pause of 2026 after three rises. Brisbane bidders get steadier borrowing costs, not lower ones.
The Brisbane 2032 venue plan: what is being built, where and when
A plain guide to the 2032 Delivery Plan: the 17 venues, who builds them, what they cost, how they are approved and where each project stood in mid-June 2026.
Reserve Bank holds at 4.35% and says housing momentum has shifted
The Reserve Bank left the cash rate unchanged on 16 June after three rises this year. Its statement notes falling prices in some capitals; Brisbane is not yet among them.
Brisbane sellers keep choosing auction as bookings rise 15 per cent
Brisbane held 144 auctions in the week ending 14 June, about 13 per cent more than a year earlier, and the early clearance rate recovered to 42.0 per cent, Cotality figures show.
Housing infrastructure fund's second round is doubled to $1 billion
Round two of Queensland's Residential Activation Fund will hand out $1 billion instead of $500 million, after 209 applications arrived, most from outside the south-east.
How Queensland home price indexes work, and why they give different numbers
Median sale prices, stratified medians and hedonic indexes all claim to measure the same market. A plain guide to what Cotality, PropTrack, the ABS and the REIQ each count.
More than half of Brisbane auctions passed in during first week of June
Cotality's final figures put Brisbane's clearance rate at 34.1 per cent for the week ending 7 June, its lowest in six years, with 56.3 per cent of auctions passed in.
Lakesview at Robina wins State approval for 2,500 Gold Coast homes
The Queensland Government has approved the Lakesview project at Robina through its State Facilitated Development pathway, the largest approval the pathway has produced.
Rent increases in Queensland: how often, how much notice, what to do
Queensland allows one rent increase in 12 months for a property and requires two months' written notice. How the limit works, and how a tenant can challenge an increase.
No long weekend, yet Brisbane auction numbers fall by almost a third
Brisbane held 138 auctions in the first week of June, about 30 per cent fewer than a week earlier, and Cotality's early clearance rate of 31.9 per cent is the city's lowest since May 2020.
Queensland's mean dwelling price is now second only to NSW, ABS says
ABS figures released on 9 June put Queensland's mean dwelling price at $1,123,700 in the March quarter 2026, up $49,800 in three months and above the national mean.