{"id":14409,"date":"2025-01-14T10:55:41","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T23:55:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brighten.com.au\/resources\/media-centre\/what-to-expect-in-australias-housing-market-in-the-year-ahead\/"},"modified":"2025-01-20T11:12:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-20T00:12:55","slug":"what-to-expect-in-australias-housing-market-in-the-year-ahead","status":"publish","type":"media-centre","link":"https:\/\/brighten.com.au\/zh-hant\/media-centre\/what-to-expect-in-australias-housing-market-in-the-year-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"What to expect in Australia&#8217;s housing market in the year ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Publication Date: Tuesday, 14 January 2025<br><em>This article originally appeared in<\/em> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brokernews.com.au\/news\/breaking-news\/what-to-expect-in-australias-housing-market-in-the-year-ahead-286370.aspx\">AustralianBroker<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.brokernews.com.au\/news\/breaking-news\/heres-what-key-market-players-are-expecting-for-australias-housing-market-in-2025-286322.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Market players continue to weigh in<\/a>&nbsp;on what the year ahead will look like in Australia&#8217;s housing market. With so many different variables \u2013&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brokernews.com.au\/news\/breaking-news\/australias-low-unemployment-rate-could-impact-rate-cuts-286360.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rate cuts, inflation,<\/a>&nbsp;rising housing prices, a housing shortage, an election year and continued geopolitical tensions abroad \u2014 comes uncertainty, and differing opinions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Home prices are expected to rise, but only in some of Australia&#8217;s major cities. Meanwhile, opinions vary on when the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brokernews.com.au\/news\/breaking-news\/rba\/176081\/\">RBA<\/a>&#8216;s next rate cut will be. There&#8217;s also an upcoming election both domestically and abroad.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Australian Broker caught up with key players in the market to hear their thoughts on the year ahead. In a two-part series, AB asked some of the nation&#8217;s top brokers and lenders what they&#8217;re expecting and how they&#8217;re preparing for 2025. But just as Australia&#8217;s housing market is diverse, so are expectations for the future. Continuing with lenders, here&#8217;s what a few had to say.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Chris Meaker<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Melbourne-based director, head of sales and distribution at non-bank lender Brighten<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;From what we&#8217;re hearing, we do expect the rates to drop next year, hopefully in Q1 or Q2. That&#8217;s the biggest thing that will drive confidence in the market,\u201d Meaker said. \u201cAnd that confidence means customers might want to buy an investment property, or a bigger house, or to do construction. So we think next year is going to be bigger for us. And we&#8217;re looking to take on more business development managers, because we expect to see some significant growth next year, especially, in the construction side of the business and in investment properties. [Customers] might not be able to borrow as much as they can from a bank. So they&#8217;ve come to us because we&#8217;re able to lend more money because we&#8217;ve got a better borrowing capacity.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Market players continue to weigh in\u00a0on what the year ahead will look like in Australia&#8217;s housing market. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5640,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14409","media-centre","type-media-centre","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-26"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What to expect in Australia&#039;s housing market in the year ahead | Brighten<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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