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
182 episodes
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...
Episode 109: From Offers To Exchange: Protecting Yourself In NSW Property Deals
In this episode of Current Market Insights, Ciaran O’Brien and Peter O’Malley unpack the part of buying in NSW that most people think they understand, until it gets real. Offers are easy. Exchange is the moment it becomes binding. And the pathw...
Episode 108: Sydney Property Market Update February 2026 What the Numbers Really Say
Ciaran O’Brien sits down with Peter O’Malley for a boots on the ground read of the Sydney property market as February 2026 wraps up. They unpack a softer feel behind the headlines, including Marrickville results that raised eyebrows and why com...
Episode 107: RBA Rate Hike, NSW Name and Shame List, and Why Sydney Rents Could Jump 10%
This week on Current Market Insights, Kieran O’Brien and Peter O’Malley unpack the key points from Peter’s latest monthly newsletter and what they mean on the ground in Sydney real estate.They cover why the market is likely to brush off...
Episode 106: Rate Hike Reality — Sticky Inflation, Borrowing Power & What Comes Next
Hosts Ciaran O’Brien and Peter O’Malley unpack the RBA’s latest rate hike and why inflation in Australia remains stubbornly above target. We explore how the next six weeks could reshape sentiment, borrowing capacity and price momentum, while co...
Episode 105: Inflation, Housing Costs & Trust Under Pressure
Hosts Ciaran O’Brien and Peter O’Malley break down the 3.8% CPI print and why housing costs—especially rents and electricity—are doing most of the damage. We explain what a likely 0.25% RBA hike means for prices, buyer sentiment, and negotiatio...
Episode 104: The Three Signals Shaping Sydney in 2026
Hosts Ciaran O’Brien and Peter O’Malley deliver a clear-eyed check on how Sydney’s property market opens in 2026—steady inspections, cautious buyers, and a noticeable shift where apartments begin edging ahead of houses as first home buyer activ...