The RP Data Research Team have released its latest housing market report for the Gold Coast region. The report provides an in depth look at the current conditions across the Gold Coast housing market and offers key trends, metrics and suburb statistical data. Some of the key trends mentioned: 3.8% increase in dwelling values over.

Australians earned more than $33.5 billion in rental income on investment properties and claimed more than $41.5 billion in tax deductions against those properties in the 2011-12 tax year, according to the latest Australian Taxation Office figures. The total of $8 billion in net losses claimed in the 2011-12 financial year was a slight increase.