Rate cut back on the table, investors back in the game
With interest rates again tipped to fall next month and investor lending at its highest since 2017, property buyers are surging back into the market — but it’s where they’re buying that might surprise you.
The unemployment rate leaping to a four-year high has flipped the interest rate debate on its head. (Image source: Andrey Popov/Shutterstock.com)
Investors are pouring back into property, and the latest unemployment figures could trigger another interest rate cut that would only serve to entice even more buyers into an already heated real estate market.
If interest rate speculation was a sport, the current game would be a cliffhanger.
In the space of a few months, the big four banks and economists around the country have gone from tipping two rate cuts in the latter part of 2025, to ruli…
