From 1 July 2027, investors who buy an established residential property after 7:30pm on 12 May 2026 can no longer offset rental losses against salary or wages. Eligible new builds are exempt, keeping both negative gearing and a choice of capital gains tax method on sale. Anyone who owned a property, or was under contract, on Budget night is grandfathered.
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TL;DR The May 2026 Federal Budget abolished negative gearing for established properties purchased after 12 May 2026 and will replace the 50 per cent CGT discount with indexation from 1 July 2027. New builds are exempt and keep both tax benefits. With ABS data showing rents still rising and housing the biggest driver of inflation, high yield new builds such as co-living, dual occupancy and duplex homes now offer stronger cash flow and better tax treatment.
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TL;DR Lone-person households are Australia’s fastest growing household type and make up roughly a quarter of the nation’s three million renting households, yet most rental stock is built for families. Purpose-built co-living, rooming house and studio accommodation adds multiple self-contained dwellings to a single block, delivers strong yields and targets a tenant pool that is growing every year. The investors who win in this space will be the ones who prioritise quality, compliance and location.
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Aus Investment Properties. Data analysed by Aus Investment Properties as at June 2026, with quarter-on-quarter comparison to March 2026 and year-on-year comparison to June 2025. . This report provides a quarterly review of pricing across current market listings analysed by Aus Investment Properties. It is designed as an investor-grade market snapshot of build pricing, land pricing and package pricing across residential investment product types and key states.
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TL;DR The Australian Government has agreed to support an amendment that would ban future limited recourse borrowing arrangements, or LRBAs, for residential property by superannuation funds. Existing SMSF borrowings are not intended to change, and the Government has described a 45-day transition period for investments already in progress. There is no confirmed August cut-off yet, but investors relying on SMSF lending should treat August as a planning window, not a guaranteed deadline.
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General market information for residential property investors, Reporting period: Q1 2026. TLDR This quarter reads as a growth-led market with broad rental tightness underneath it. Across the postcode markets with sufficient sales depth, capital growth was the dominant signal, while vacancy was extremely tight almost everywhere, so the two signals are pointing the same way in many markets, but for different reasons.
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Capital Growth 12 months, measures the increase in a property’s value over the previous 12 months, indicating how much the investment has appreciated in that timeframe.
Capital Growth 10-year annualised, reflects the average annual increase in a property’s value over the last decade, smoothing out short-term fluctuations to show long-term appreciation trends.
Vacancy Rate, indicates the percentage of properties that are currently unoccupied in that postcode, It’s a key indicator for investors to assess the rental demand.
SMSF Property Investing, when investing inside your SMSF there are some restrictions on how you can purchase investment properties. We use the following information to help navigate the SMSF investment property options.
This property is a single-contract property suitable for an SMSF.
SMSF Single Contract
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