The government is selling controversial investment tax changes as an attempt to rebalance the playing field between young and old Australians.
The property industry is challenging the government's modelling on the impact the federal budget will have on renters and housing supply.
The share of property investors older than 60 has more than doubled since the capital gains discount was introduced, Reserve Bank of Australia research shows.
Business groups are urging the federal government to have a major rethink over its capital gains tax measures but Jim Chalmers is remaining steadfast.
Changes to negative gearing and capital gains tax concessions could cause the biggest housing downturn in 40 years, in a boost for first home buyers.
More than $1 billion is being wasted on building parking spaces that aren't used as part of new housing, a study has found.
The treasurer and prime minister are doing a sales job on government attempts to boost housing supply as property investors chew budget changes to tax breaks.
Labor insists it's taking the right approach to tax reform despite a majority of Australians saying the latest budget will leave them worse off.
The government has conceded its budget is unlikely to win immediate support from voters as Labor and Liberals taking aim at each others' policies.
Tax changes in the federal budget will likely shift property investors to new houses in the outer suburbs and inner-city apartments, economists say.
Australians are leaving the cities for inland areas as growing house prices shift migration patterns, bringing positive and negative flow-on effects.
A new $250 a year tax offset gives the government an option to return bracket creep directly to working Australians, Treasurer Jim Chalmers says.
Australians who earn a wage will get $250 in tax relief as part of Labor's budget, but investors and wealthy families could be left worse off.
Strained by chronic housing supply challenges, a leading researcher has warned councils against forcibly removing their homeless populations.
Australians are under financial pressure and the government cannot "just sit back", the prime minister says, as his treasurer prepares to hand down the budget.
An extra $2 billion will be pledged in the budget to build sewerage and roads for new homes as the treasurer frames housing policy as a remedy to populism.
Expected changes to negative gearing or capital gains tax would not break an election promise because they would be for the right reasons, Jim Chalmers says.
The upcoming federal budget is widely tipped to pare back incentives for property investors as the prime minister promises to tackle intergenerational inequity.
Sydney's home price premium over Brisbane and Perth continues to narrow as values retreat in Australia's two largest cities.
Low-income earners are locked out of the private rental market, with JobSeeker recipients only able to afford one listing in Australia, a leading charity warns.
Furious lobbying for a 25 per cent tax on gas exports is failing to sway the federal government, which is ruling out the measure for the upcoming budget.
A major home builder says overall sales are healthy, despite some signs of a moderation in activity in April, as it watches supply chain impacts from the war.
House prices for homes under thresholds for a five per cent deposit scheme are outstripping increases for all other homes.
Australian renters are spending a record share of their income on housing costs as a chronic shortage of stock drives prices higher across the nation.
Two major cities are becoming more unaffordable faster than other capitals, as they build fewer homes relative to population growth than Sydney and Melbourne.
City-dwellers are increasingly moving to smaller communities rather than regional cities to escape housing and transport costs, a report has found.
Record home sales profits are lining the pockets of people in the housing market, while pushing the price of admission beyond the means of ordinary Australians.
Borrowing patterns of first homebuyers are changing as they take advantage of government subsidies, Australia's biggest lender says.
Home prices are flat-lining in Australia's biggest cities and surging elsewhere as new national data tells a tale of two housing markets.
Young people, particularly women, are turning their backs on home ownership as up-front and ongoing costs combined with other pressures put it out of reach.
As polls point to a crushing victory in one state election, the Labor government has called on voters to seize opportunity and reject division.
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