This week on the Money Mentor podcast, Rachael Howlett and Dr Andrew Wilson cut through the noise with a timely pulse check on Australia’s housing market. With Melbourne Cup Day around the corner, the RBA faces a tougher backdrop: quarterly and monthly inflation have ticked higher, with electricity doing the heavy lifting and fuel no longer a tailwind. Doc explains why that likely means a rate hold next week and what that signals for borrowers.

We also unpack the latest land data showing rising block prices and shrinking lot sizes, reinforcing supply pressures, plus a reality check on the spring selling season: monster auction volumes, resilient clearance rates, and where the heat is and isn’t across the capitals. Finally, Rachael and Doc preview the shift to monthly CPI, what it means for policy cadence, and why real-time data matters more than ever.

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