by Richard Crabb | CEO | Senior Property Advisor | PIPA Vice Chair | Jun 23, 2026 | Strategic Insights
Every year the property industry pores over investor sentiment data, and every year it draws the wrong lesson from it. Sentiment is worth reading closely. It tells you what is weighing on people who own property, and where pressure is building. What it does not tell...
by Richard Crabb | CEO | Senior Property Advisor | PIPA Vice Chair | Jun 19, 2026 | Media & Commentary
Australia’s rental rules have changed more in the past three years than in the previous twenty. For investors, the instinct is to see only added cost and lost control. That reaction is understandable, but it is incomplete. The reforms are real and they do raise...
by Richard Crabb | CEO | Senior Property Advisor | PIPA Vice Chair | Jun 17, 2026 | Strategic Insights
“Is now a good time to buy?” is the question I am asked more than any other, and it is rarely the right place to start. The honest answer in 2026 is that conditions have shifted in ways the headlines are not capturing. The market has cooled, money has...