In this Australian Property Podcast episode, your hosts Pete Wargent from Allen Wargent Property Buyers and Chris Bates from the Alcove mortgage specialists discuss the big property news stories of the week.
They also covered some of your listener questions in their weekly Q&A.
In this week’s episode, Chris and Pete cover:
1 – Working from home mandates!
2 – More taxes in union’s sights
3 – 295,000 international student places for 2026
Episode Resources:
Victoria to mandate two days work-from-home under new law – The Guardian
Business pans Victoria’s WFH plan – AFR
ACTU calls for $25bn in fair tax redistribution – The Australian
295,000 international student places for 2025 – Pete Wargent Blog
Managing a sustainable international education sector – Jason Clare
National home prices rise again in July – ABC News
Bad news for Aussie housing affordability – MacroBusiness
Prefab homes won’t improve affordability – MacroBusiness
August rate cut appears certain – ABC News
Auction clearance rates strong ahead of rate cut – AFR
Sellers’ market will push house prices higher – MacroBusiness
New QLD laws to prevent nightmare home purchases – AFR
Trump announces new 'reciprocal' tariffs – ABC News
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