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The Estait Signal
Weekly property data insights for Australian investors. Suburb picks, DOM trends, yield shifts — straight from the data.
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Suburb picks
3 data-backed suburbs each week — yield, DOM, vacancy, growth. No opinions, just numbers.
DOM trends
Days-on-market shifts signal momentum before prices move. We track it weekly.
Yield shifts
When rent moves faster than prices, opportunity opens. We flag it when it happens.
Past issues
The downturn got wider — the rent cheque didn't
Four straight monthly falls, but vacancies near 1% keep pushing yields up. Victoria's contrarian value case — Doreen, Pascoe Vale and Meadow Heights, with Estait Scores.
Four straight monthly falls. What July actually means for you.
The downturn broadened in July — three NSW markets the data is pointing at (Cootamundra, Toronto, Campsie), none of them a “Buy”.
Prices fell in June. Rents didn't. Here's the gap.
June's cooling market, the negative-gearing timeline, and the short-stay rules that just changed in every state.
Three suburbs still growing 18–26% while the capitals fall
As the capitals cool, a few affordable markets keep running — Whyalla Norrie, Port Augusta and Kelmscott, every figure from Estait's database.
Negative gearing hits a Glen Waverley house for ~$32k/yr. A Narrabri one? $0.
The 12 May budget change quantified per suburb — what limiting negative gearing to new builds actually costs, from Glen Waverley to Narrabri.
Three Melbourne growth-corridor suburbs the data keeps flagging
Werribee, Craigieburn and Frankston — one affordability anchor, one yield play, one momentum market. Every number externally cross-checked.
8 forecasters just published their 2026 Sydney calls. They disagree by 10 percentage points.
Westpac -3%, KPMG +5.8%, Domain +7%. A 10-point spread on the country's biggest market — and what to do about it.
Three policy changes every Australian property investor needs to understand right now
ATO 2026-27 brackets, negative-gearing changes, and what they mean for your next purchase.
The 3 markets every investor is sleeping on
High yield, tight vacancy, fast DOM — three suburbs under $800K that the data keeps surfacing.