PropertyCircle

10/09/2026

Capital gains tax has become a hot topic in property amid the introduction of significant reforms to property investment taxation announced in the 2026 Federal Budget.

18/08/2026

16/07/2026

Unit values in parts of Sydney’s northwest have dropped below 2016 levels, leaving some owners at risk 👇 https://bit.ly/3RDOfDe

02/07/2026

26/05/2026

Profits and losses in property sales by city

24/05/2026

The NSW government is under pressure to wind back some of the tough building laws that came in the wake of the Opal Tower and Mascot Towers calamities.

12/05/2026

12/05/2026

The biggest change to property taxation in 26 years just landed.

Here's what your clients actually need to know.

Negative gearing on established residential property is being quarantined – not abolished. Losses can still offset rental income and capital gains from residential property. They just can't shelter salary anymore.

New builds? Still fully negatively geared. And investors get to choose between the old 50% CGT discount or the new indexation model – at the point of sale, not purchase.

The grandfathering is broader than expected. Every property owned or under contract before 7:30pm AEST on 12 May 2026 keeps its current treatment. Plus there's a 13-month grace period for new purchases before 30 June 2027.

The number Treasury led with: one in three negatively geared investment properties sold in 2022–23 resulted in a net tax subsidy – investors paid less total tax than if they'd never bought the property at all.

Treasury says 75,000 additional owner-occupiers will enter the market over the next decade. But they also acknowledge 35,000 fewer dwellings from reduced investor activity.

(That gap between cooling demand now and new supply arriving years later? That's the conversation property managers need to be having.)

The agents who can calmly explain what's changing – and what isn't – will be the ones clients remember this week.

What's the first question you think your clients will be asking this morning?



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30/04/2026

With only one in 10 buyers being comfortable buying at auction, will the process slowly be replaced by private treaty only?