Ignore the doomsdayers – property investing in Australia is far from broken

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Ignore the doomsday warnings about the government’s tax changes – property investing in Australia is a little bruised, but it’s far from broken. The country’s biggest mortgage lender, Commonwealth Bank, reported a bumper $11bn full-year cash profit on Wednesday, backed by robust demand for its lending products, especially mortgages. It has long benefited from surging demand from property investors who took out $45bn worth of loans in the last six months of 2025, and a further $37bn in the first half of this year. There are two main reasons for the pullback in 2026: the Reserve Bank has lifted interest rates three times and the federal government amended negative gearing…

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