Residential Property Price Indexes — ABS
The definitive house and unit price series for every capital city, back to 2003. The starting point for any suburb price question.
The library.
The sources HomeScope actually reads — official data, tax guidance, market research and housing scholarship, curated into one working list. If a claim on this site rests on a number, it comes from somewhere in this library.
External links open in a new tab. The library is curated, not exhaustive: we favour primary sources over commentary, and stability over noise.
Official data
Lending Indicators — ABS
New investor versus owner-occupier lending by state. Shows whether the market is being driven by investors — the composition matters as much as the total.
Census of Population and Housing — ABS
The raw material for suburb analysis: household structure, tenure, rents, mortgages and transport at the smallest geography the ABS publishes.
Statement on Monetary Policy — RBA
The interest-rate outlook each investor should read four times a year. It explains why the rate the calculator uses today may not be the rate it uses next year.
Financial Stability Review — RBA
Housing debt, household buffers and lending standards. The clearest public picture of how much of the economy is exposed to property.
Tax, law and regulation
Rental properties — ATO
The official record of what is deductible, what is not, and the records you must keep. The deductions checklist on this site is a plain-English version of this.
Capital gains tax — ATO
The official CGT rules, including the 50% discount, the cost base and the main residence exemption.
Banking regulation — APRA
Macroprudential settings (serviceability buffers, investor lending limits) move the market more than headlines admit. Read the regulator, not the commentary on it.
Revenue NSW — stamp duty
Stamp duty thresholds and calculators for the state that collects the most. Other states run equivalent offices — check the one you buy in.
State Revenue Office Victoria
Victorian stamp duty, land tax and the first-home and vacancy rules that change purchase economics.
Market research and news
CoreLogic research hub
The national home-value index and the rental data behind most headline yield claims. Check the methodology before quoting the number.
Domain research
House and unit price reports by capital city, plus vacancy rates and rental reports. Useful second source to hold CoreLogic to.
realestate.com.au insights
Market news written for the general reader, and the largest listings dataset in the country behind it.
Property prices — The Conversation
Peer-reviewed academic commentary on housing affordability, negative gearing policy and land economics — free to read and usually more careful than the weekend press.
Housing scholarship
AHURI — Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute
Peer-reviewed research on the housing system: tenancy law, supply, investor behaviour and policy. The closest thing to a national housing evidence base.