You’d have to be living under a rock not to know that Melbourne has been running neck and neck with Sydney as the hottest property market for the last few years, but it may surprise you to know this is nothing new. The following graph from Corelogic shows what’s been going on not over the

CoreLogic’s June housing market review this month reveals that the Melbourne’s auction market seems to be more resilient to a slowdown compared with Sydney, despite the recent softening. May usually suffers from a seasonal downturn, but the housing market in Melbourne remains as diverse as ever. It’s important not to draw too many conclusions from this

In years gone by, property investors would bypass apartments instead preferring to invest in a house on a big block of land. But as demographics shift with more one and two person households, more of us are trading backyards for courtyards and balconies, and investors are increasingly seeing the value of apartment as investments. While

Melbourne is the most liveable city in the world! Now you could say I’m biased (and I am) but it’s been named the world’s most liveable city for the sixth year in a row by the Economist Intelligence Unit’s liveability survey of 140 cities. Melbourne received an overall score of 97.5 out of 100, scoring

The Melbourne market has been much more resilient, with annual growth in dwelling values slipping below the 10 per cent mark for the first time since May last year, to reach 9.8 per cent at the end of March 2016. The current growth cycle has been running since values troughed in May 2012. Through to March 2016,

Latest research by Eliza Owen from onthehouse.com.au has revealed that Mont Albert Road is Victoria’s new number one destination for million-dollar houses. Based in the affluent neighbourhood of Canterbury, Mont Albert Road has stormed up the chart to steal the crown from Brighton’s Cole Street, which has dropped down to fifth place after taking out

After languishing for close to two years the prestige end of Melbourne’s  property market is bouncing back with a rise in million-dollar sales, and the trend is likely to continue, albeit slowly, throughout 2014. The Age reported that last year one in eight houses sold for at least $1 million. A year earlier it was

Over the last year or two Melbourne’s property market strength has confounded many property pundits. Despite some areas of oversupply (like in the CBD apartment market and house and land packages in the outer suburbs) property values throughout most suburbs of Melbourne just keep increasing. In fact Melbourne dwelling prices have increased by 7.8% in