In this Australian Property Podcast episode, your hosts Pete Wargent from Allen Wargent Property Buyers and Chris Bates from the Alcove mortgage specialists discuss the big property news stories of the week.

They also covered some of your listener questions in their weekly Q&A.

In this week’s episode, Chris and Pete cover:

1 – Working from home mandates!

2 – More taxes in union’s sights

3 – 295,000 international student places for 2026

Episode Resources:

Victoria to mandate two days work-from-home under new law – The Guardian

Business pans Victoria’s WFH plan – AFR

ACTU calls for $25bn in fair tax redistribution – The Australian

295,000 international student places for 2025 – Pete Wargent Blog

Managing a sustainable international education sector – Jason Clare

National home prices rise again in July – ABC News

Bad news for Aussie housing affordability – MacroBusiness

Prefab homes won’t improve affordability – MacroBusiness

August rate cut appears certain – ABC News

Auction clearance rates strong ahead of rate cut – AFR

Sellers’ market will push house prices higher – MacroBusiness

New QLD laws to prevent nightmare home purchases – AFR

Trump announces new 'reciprocal' tariffs – ABC News

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