Current Market Insights
The Current Market Insights Podcast is brought to you by Harris Partners Real Estate.
Understanding the property market can be a challenging thing, with highs and lows, twists and turns. The media and agents tend to spread the news they want you to hear, with the advice they want you to follow.
Current Market Insights is an unbiased look into what is happening, what tips you can use to buy, sell, or rent, and that you wont find anywhere else.
Episodes
188 episodes
Episode 126: What Happens To A City When Rents Rise Faster Than Wages
Sydney property has long been treated like a one-way bet on capital growth, but that story is getting stress-tested in real time. We sit down and talk through the shift we’re seeing on the ground: investors looking past the hype and asking a to...
Episode 125: Has Sydney Hit The Bottom?
Calling the “bottom” in the Sydney property market makes for great headlines, but it can be a costly mindset if the cycle still has further to fall. We take a hard look at the chatter coming from big industry voices and compare it with what we’...
Episode 124: Bathla’s $3.6 Billion Debt And What It Means For Sydney Housing
A major Sydney developer collapses under billions in private credit debt, staff reportedly go unpaid, subcontractors get left holding the bag, and buyers stare down the nightmare scenario of stalled builds and deposits at risk. We break down wh...
Episode 123: Spring Market Signals
Spring is meant to feel hopeful, but spring 2026 in the Australian property market is shaping up as a season where small signals could have big consequences. Ciaran O’Brien sits down with Peter O'Malley to map out what we’re watching as Sydney ...
Episode 122: Is The Property Super Cycle Over?
“The property super cycle is over.” That’s the kind of line that makes you sit up, especially when it’s linked to Shane Oliver, one of Australia’s most watched economists. We take that claim seriously and pull it apart from the ground up: inter...
Episode 121: When Clearance Rates Collapse Who Really Pays?
Sydney’s property market is sending mixed signals that only make sense once you follow the credit. Auction clearance rates are weak, confidence is fragile, and yet the right home can still attract multiple offers. So what’s actually happening o...
Talking Property - The Year Ahead for Sydney Property
SQM Research's Louis Christopher previews the next Financial Year for the Sydney Property Market. In this insightful analysis, Christopher covers off on: the RBA's next rate move the challenges facing the property...
2GB with John Stanley: Property Downturn Spreads Beyond Sydney
On 2GB Nights with John Stanley, Peter O'Malley from Harris Partners explains why Australia’s property downturn is no longer confined to Sydney and Melbourne. As auction clearance rates weaken across more capital cities, the discussion...
Talking Property - State of the Market: June 2026
In this deep dive on the issues that have dictated the market performance in 2026, Louis covers: the shock and awe conditions facing the property marketthe historical crash in Auction results the best and...
Across Australia: Sliding Auction Results, Housing Policy & the First Home Buyer Squeeze
On Across Australia, host Chris Smith is joined by Peter O'Malley to examine the sharp decline in auction clearance rates across Sydney and Melbourne, and whether recent federal housing policies are undermining confidence in the proper...
2GB with John Stanley: Auctions, Renovation Risks & a Changing Market
On 2GB Nights with John Stanley, Peter O’Malley takes a hard look at the softening Australian property market and what weakening auction clearance rates mean for buyers and sellers. As competition thins, the focus is shifting from auct...
Episode 120: Stick Or Flick Your Real Estate Agent?
We tackle the uncomfortable vendor dilemma of whether to stick with an underperforming real estate agent or flick them and start again. We share the practical markers that separate a tough but competent agent from one who is avoiding reality, p...
Episode 119: Auction Clearance Rates Are Tanking So Why Are Buyers Still Showing Up?
Sydney’s property market can look like a disaster if you only read the headlines, yet the real story is more nuanced: prices are off their highs, auctions are struggling, and buyers are cautious, but demand has not vanished and credit is still ...
2GB with John Stanley: Property Uncertainty, Rising Costs & the Supply Challenge
On 2GB Nights with John Stanley, Peter O’Malley joins the program to discuss why the property market feels increasingly uncertain despite seemingly steady auction results. Beneath the headline numbers, buyer competition is thinning, de...
Episode 118: Government Spending Is Forcing The RBA’s Hand On Interest Rates
The budget headlines are everywhere, but the bigger story is what sits underneath them: inflation pressure, government spending, and what the RBA might be forced to do next. We sit down with Peter O’Malley to break down economist Warren Hogan’s...
2GB with John Stanley: Softening Markets, Tax Changes & What Comes Next
On 2GB Nights with John Stanley, Peter O’Malley from Harris Partners joins the program to unpack the clear softening emerging across Australia’s property market. With weak auction clearance rates, falling buyer confidence, and proposed...
Episode 117: Who Really Benefits When Tax Policy Picks Winners In Housing?
We react to the Federal Budget’s big property moves and explain why the headline promise of helping first home buyers may actually tighten rentals and lift prices in new stock. We break down how the negative gearing reset and capital gains tax ...
Across Australia with Chris Smith - Negative Gearing, Rising Rents & Sydney’s Market Reality
On Across Australia, host Chris Smith is joined by Peter O’Malley to cut through the political noise surrounding negative gearing and capital gains tax reform. Rather than focusing on headlines, the discussion examines what’s ac...
Episode 116: RBA Hike #3: Reading Between the Lines of the Cash Rate
We unpack the RBA’s 0.25% rate rise to a 4.35% cash rate and read the statement for what it really says about inflation risk and what comes next. Then we shift to the on-the-ground property impacts, from Sydney’s tightening rental market to wha...
Episode 115: Sydney Real Estate Faces A Trust Reckoning After A 10-Year Ban
A ten-year ban doesn’t just end one agent’s career. It detonates a trust problem that’s been sitting in plain sight across Australian real estate for years. Ciaran O'Brien sits down with industry veteran Peter O'Malley to unpack why the Josh Te...
Episode 114: Sydney Market Confidence Breaks
Sydney feels like it has hit a new gear, and not the fun kind. Buyer confidence has slipped hard, open home crowds have thinned out, and auction clearance rates are now printing numbers many people have not seen in years. We sit down and get sp...
Episode 113: The Underquoting Crackdown Is Here
The New South Wales government just tabled legislation that could fundamentally change how real estate agents operate. Fines are tripling, agents will be forced to publish a price on every listing, and a new statement of information will create...
Episode 112: Two Hikes In, Nowhere to Hide
The RBA just hiked rates for the second time this year and the board was split 5-4, which is rare and significant. In this episode, Ciaran O'Brien and Peter O'Malley unpacks what that split really signals, why markets are already pricing in a t...
Episode 111 | Conditioning vs Feedback: What Every Seller Needs to Know
In Episode 111, Peter O’Malley and Ciaran O’Brien unpack one of the most important issues sellers face during a sales campaign: the difference between genuine buyer feedback and agent conditioning. They explore how some agents win listings with...
Episode 110 | Sydney Property in a Shifting Market with Special Guest Mike Salvartsis, Owner Director of Real Property Buyers
In Episode 111, Ciaran O’Brien and Peter O’Malley sit down with special guest Mike Salvartsis, Owner Director of Real Property Buyers, for a sharp look at what is really happening across the Sydney property market. The conversation covers how g...