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The Weekly Brief

The Weekly Brief: five things that changed in Australian finance (28 September 2026)

The catch-up edition: the brief went quiet after 27 July, so this one covers the seven weeks from mid-August to today in five items. Rates turned, home values fell for a fifth straight month, real wages went backwards, regulators found fraud across 10 banks, and three money rules changed. Here is what each one means for your loan and your wallet.

Lisa · 28 Sept 2026 · 6 min readRead
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Rates

The RBA is tipped to hike to 4.60 per cent on Tuesday. Your lender has already moved.

Markets price about a 90 per cent chance the Reserve Bank lifts the cash rate to 4.60 per cent at 2:30pm AEST on Tuesday 29 September, the highest since November 2011. The banks did not wait: 18 lenders have already raised fixed rates this month. Here are both scenarios, what each costs on a real loan, and what to do before the announcement.

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Rents are up, prices are down, and yields are at a seven-year high. Investors are leaving anyway.

Cotality's August figures put rents up 5.7 per cent on a year while home values sit 3.6 per cent below their March peak, lifting the national gross yield to 3.79 per cent, the highest since September 2019. The maths on an investment property has improved for the first time in years, just as tax changes and higher rates push investors out. Here is what the numbers mean for investors, and why renters in Sydney finally have some bargaining power.

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