Property market expected to continue its strong start to 2025 as rate cut spurs confidence.
Victims of dodgy builders have been promised easier access to a state-operated insurance scheme to fix shoddy work under a consumer law shake-up.
Economists highlight positive numbers as the property market moves into March and the peak of the autumn selling season.
Slowing inflation helped convince the Reserve Bank to cut rates at its last meeting but uncertainty over tariffs was also a factor, the deputy governor says.
The gender pay gap is leaving women with fewer properties and shares than men, says a survey indicating more than four in ten women have no such assets at all.
Headline inflation rate has held steady at 2.5 per cent in January, with the all-important underlying measure edging 0.1 percentage point higher.
Jacinta Allan is pushing forward plans to turn the state into a townhouse capital, with reforms blocking neighbours from appealing against three storey developments.
Buyer sentiment is boosting auction numbers on the back of the first rate cut since 2020.
New survey will horrify conveyancers and property lawyers after it was found 32 per cent of Australians felt they did not do enough checks to find faults.
Another state gets access to eConveyancing after $2 million spent on switch to paperless transactions.
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