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Is Aussie property market correcting – or in terminal decline?

ANALYSIS: Property has been a stellar investment for generations of Australians, but as prices start to fall some are suggesting the long boom may be over.

WATCH: Senior journalist Lachlan Colquohoun speaks with Hamish McNicol

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Few things are as polarising as house prices.

It sets vendors against buyers, investors against homebuyers, and – increasingly – generation against generation.

Depending on where you sit in the transaction, you are barracking equally hard either for prices to fall, or for them to continue

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Lachlan Colquhoun Wed, 03 Jun 2026
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