AI and technology

Estate agents fear speaking out about REA ‘price gouging’

Multiple agents have told the Guardian that the News Corp-controlled property portal’s dominance has allowed it to quiet critics and aggressively hike prices. More…

Negative gearing in Labor’s sights as Albanese readies for election battle

Batten down the hatches! We’re potentially in for third battle to protect tenants from the disastrous effect axing or curbing negative gearing would have on affordability and supply. More…

Agency posts personal information of critics in response to online backlash over viral rental listing

We’ve all suffered a keyboard warrior’s punitive Google review. Here’s generally how not to respond. More…

On the market for 10 years: Aussie properties that just won’t sell

You think you have a toxic listing? One Queensland homeowner has been trying to sell their property for more than a decade, earning it the unenviable title as Australia’s longest running listing (or the world’s most tone deaf vendor?). More…

NSW landlords must allow ‘reasonable’ pet requests and provide free methods for paying rent 

A rental shake-up could see pets allowed in properties and fee-free methods of paying rent in a NSW legislative proposal. More…

The Intelligence Age

In the next couple of decades, we will be able to do things that would have seemed like magic to our grandparents. This phenomenon is not new, but it will be newly accelerated. People have become dramatically more capable over time; we can already accomplish things now that our predecessors would have believed to be impossible. More…