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Australian home values fell in every month from April to August 2026, but the share of homes a median-income household could afford went from 43% to 12%. Prices came down, so why did fewer homes come within reach?

A rent spike and a price downgrade landed in the same week, alongside a major developer entering administration, a list of the worst postcodes for mortgage arrears, and a ban on super funds borrowing to buy residential property.

There's a version of Brisbane's supply story that fits neatly into a single stat: approvals at a decade high, a council relaxing height limits, a federal government promising 1.2 million homes. Read only the top line of each and the story is simple — more homes are coming.

The Reserve Bank changed nothing this week. Almost every other number in the week's property news moved, and two of them moved in directions that are hard to hold at the same time.

The Monday Brief · 10 August 2026 On 10 August 2026, a path that self-managed super funds have used for years quietly closed. A second path, right beside it, stayed open. Most of the week's commentary is standing at the door that shut. Six things we read this week, starting with the one that takes effect today. In this brief New residential borrowing inside a fund stops today — the door beside it did not close Investors are moving into childcare centres and service stations —

Seven things we read last week, starting with two reports that landed a day apart and never mention each other.

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