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Nearly every Brisbane resale made a profit in the March quarter
Cotality's Pain and Gain report finds 99.8 per cent of Brisbane resales sold above their purchase price, with a median gain of $525,190. Noosa's was higher still.
Gold Coast auctions: fewer than one in four sells in mid-June week
Ten of the 43 Gold Coast auctions held in the week ending 21 June ended in a sale, Cotality's final figures show, while Brisbane cleared under 40 per cent for a fourth week.
Negative gearing changes pass Parliament with a super fund lending ban
Parliament passed the negative gearing and capital gains tax changes on 25 June, adding a ban on new super fund loans for housing. What is settled, and what is still to come.
What the 2026-27 Queensland Budget puts toward new housing supply
The State Budget handed down on 23 June backs trunk infrastructure, a new activation fund and social housing. A plain account of the supply measures and their scale.
What a conveyancing solicitor does, from first call to settlement
Stage by stage, the work a Queensland conveyancing solicitor does for a buyer and for a seller: the tasks, the documents and the dates the lawyer keeps.
Domain forecasts Brisbane house price growth of 3% to 7% next year
Forecasts reported by the ABC on 25 June have Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth still rising in the 2026-27 financial year while Sydney and Melbourne houses are tipped to fall.
Fixed, variable or split: how home loan rate types work in Australia
A variable rate moves when the lender moves it, a fixed rate holds for a set term, and a split loan does both. What each costs, restricts and protects against.
How to check a Queensland agent's licence on the public register
Queensland's free online register shows whether an agent, salesperson or agency is licensed, in what class and with what status. How to read an entry and what it cannot tell you.
Rental scams in Queensland: the warning signs before you pay a bond
Fake listings, false landlords and letters redirecting rent: how rental scams deceive Queensland tenants, and the checks the RTA sets out before any money is paid.
Subject to finance in Queensland: how the contract's loan clause works
The finance condition in a Queensland contract runs on three schedule boxes, a 5pm deadline and a written notice. What each side must do, and what silence means.
Buyer's agency collapse leaves 695 clients owed $10.6 million
Liquidators' figures for the failed buyer's agency Dashdot show $10.59 million in prepaid fees owed to 695 clients. Three industry bodies now want tighter rules on fees and licensing.
Logan adds 5.49 per cent and Moreton Bay 4.69 to minimum rates
Logan's $1.39 billion budget and Moreton Bay's $1.2 billion budget both lift the minimum general rate. The two growth councils quote their increases in ways that are easy to misread.
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.
Queensland Budget keeps the $30,000 first home grant for four more years
The 2026-27 Queensland Budget funds the $30,000 First Home Owner Grant beyond 30 June, keeps new homes free of duty for first buyers and adds a citizenship test.
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.
A rent figure from software: what Queensland's Act asks before it runs
A pricing tool can suggest a weekly rent, but Queensland's tenancy Act decides how that figure may be advertised, offered and raised. Where the law sits, and who answers for the number.
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.
Resident letting agents: the on-site manager's licence in Queensland
What a resident letting agent licence allows in a Queensland unit complex, who can hold one, how owners appoint the manager and where body corporate agreements fit.
Selling a Queensland home as an executor or under a power of attorney
When the person on the title cannot sign, someone else must prove the right to sell. How transmission by death and a registered power of attorney work in Queensland.