Insights

A groundbreaking insight challenges the concensus view on Australian housing affordability, revealing a critical data interpretation flaw that reshapes our understanding of where Australia ranks in global housing affordability.

Learn how to use land value to better optimise your next home purchase. This article unpacks land value as a predictor of property growth and delves into the reliability of traditional investment beliefs.

Explore the advantages and drawbacks of new builds versus existing homes. Uncover key insights to help you make an informed decision about your property purchase that suits your lifestyle, budget, and future goals.

In the last two decades, we've seen two booms in first homebuying. One immediately after the GFC, the other during COVID lockdowns. Why these two periods? Read this research piece to find out.

Explore some essential strategies for making offers and negotiating on a property to secure your dream home. Stay ahead in the real estate market with some expert tips and insights to navigate through the homebuying process.

Last week the ABS reported Australia's population grew by 2.5%, the highest rate in over 70 years. So we pulled out the data comparing population growth vs. property market growth over the long term. The correlation is quite high, yet, it wasn't always the case. For a long time, it had no effect. See more in this research piece.

Discover the power of shared equity in homeownership. Learn how shared equity boosts your property dreams. Explore advantages, costs, and more on this FrontYa blog.

Exploring the underestimated impact of home renovations on Australia's property market: renovations add an 8% premium to sale prices, potentially influencing overall market growth more than previously recognised.

Wondering what the process is for buying a house in Australia? Discover the steps you’ll need to take from start to finish, and explore the different stakeholders involved. Additionally, delve into how FrontYa can help boost your deposit and stamp duty funds.

Australian homeowners show resilience against rising mortgage debt, capable of managing significantly more than the current $2.2 trillion owed. This analysis helps to debunk fears of widespread forced selling due to interest rate hikes.

Discover what a home deposit is when purchasing a property. Explore the ways in which you can boost your home deposit, together with the current solutions in the market to help you achieve home ownership.

Discover how the pandemic reversed the Australian property market's dynamics, with new households now outstripping new dwellings by 90k per annum, impacting rental and property prices despite fluctuating interest rates.

Struggling to save for your first home? Explore FrontYa’s deposit-boosting solution beyond government schemes. Learn how shared equity, an emerging pathway to homeownership, can get you on the property ladder faster. Discover the advantages, costs, and more.

Replacing stamp duty for land tax might reduce the upfront cost to purchase a home thereby making housing more affordable. However, this change defers the cost from upfront into an annual payment. This increased expense will need to be assessed when determining your borrowing capacity. But what impact will this have on your purchasing power?

Housing affordability has become a key election issue with each major party putting forward different policies to help solve it. Which policy is better and for whom? We've crunched the numbers into a report with some really interesting results.