Elizabeth Tilley
Elizabeth Tilley is a property journalist at realestate.com.au who focuses on data-driven coverage of Queensland housing markets, explaining how price movements, affordability pressures and policy changes impact buyers, sellers and investors. She anchors her reporting in proprietary datasets such as the PropTrack Home Price Index and suburb-level analysis, turning complex numbers into clear narratives about the state of the market. Alongside her reporting, she presents real estate video, social media and MC services, positioning herself as a real estate media presenter with a strong emphasis on property storytelling and on-screen communication.
Brisbane Home Prices Up, Slowdown Coming
A recurring thread in Tilley’s work is tracking the rise and fall of Brisbane home prices over the full market cycle. She reports closely on PropTrack’s monthly home price data, quantifying changes in median values and translating percentage shifts into dollar figures that show what the market means at street level.
In coverage of rapid price growth, she has highlighted annual gains of more than $170,000 in Brisbane, setting those records against interest rate settings, cost-of-living pressures and broader economic tensions. When conditions soften, she follows the downturn with equal precision, documenting multi-month price falls, the gap from peak values and the amount wiped from typical homes, while contrasting capital city trends with more resilient regional Queensland markets.
Across these pieces, her distinguishing approach is to bring consistency and clarity to cyclical reporting, revisiting the same metrics over time so readers can see where the market has come from and where it is heading.
Queensland’s Correction-Proof Housing Markets
Tilley devotes significant coverage to identifying which parts of Queensland withstand property corrections and where long-term opportunities may lie.
In detailed analyses of “correction-proof” housing markets, she breaks down performance across multiple downturns, spotlighting regions that have repeatedly outperformed the national market and framing them as candidates for the next investment phase. Her reporting blends historical growth figures with recent quarterly moves, showing how places such as regional centres and key metropolitan corridors have delivered sustained resilience over time. She draws on specialist commentators and research reports to distinguish genuine fundamentals from short-term hype, urging readers to focus on underlying drivers rather than chasing yesterday’s hotspots. In parallel, she covers shifts in listing volumes and buyer demand, detailing how floods of new stock and changing inquiry levels contribute to slumps or turnarounds in different parts of the market.
This combination of cycle history, current data and expert insight marks her out as a reporter who treats property as a long-term asset class rather than just a series of headline sales.
Rate Hikes, Stamp Duty and the Cost of Moving
Another defining strand of Tilley’s work is her focus on the real cost of buying and selling, especially in the context of rising interest rates and taxes.
She has quantified how Reserve Bank rate hikes erode borrowing capacity, mapping different income levels against specific Queensland suburbs and showing how successive increases push entire markets beyond buyers’ reach. Her reporting spells out scenarios for single and multiple rate rises, translating quarter-point changes into concrete reductions in maximum loan sizes and purchase prices, and listing the suburbs that drop out of scope for households at various income brackets.
On the transaction side, she has broken down the total cost of selling versus renovating, using external analysis to itemise stamp duty, legal fees, agent commissions and other charges, and to calculate benchmark figures for typical sales in major city markets. She also interrogates market practices that leave buyers in the dark, such as high proportions of listings without price guides, connecting these to concerns about underquoting and misleading advertising. Together, these stories show a reporter who is interested not just in headline prices but in the mechanics and friction costs that shape who can participate in the market.
Record Sales and Prestige Property Stories
Tilley regularly covers record-breaking and prestige property deals, using them to illustrate broader shifts in demand and wealth. Her reporting on high-end coastal and riverfront sales combines vivid property details with careful documentation of price history, including original purchase prices, resale values and the margins achieved over short holding periods. In stories about knockdown sales and mega-mansion plans, she links eye-catching transactions to changing perceptions of emerging luxury destinations and to the movement of well-heeled buyers into previously under-the-radar suburbs.
Coverage of celebrity builders and prominent local figures buying or selling homes sits alongside analysis of new suburb records, reinforcing the sense that individual deals are part of a larger pattern in prestige markets. Across these pieces she maintains a strong focus on numbers, ensuring that narrative elements and personalities are grounded in clear, documented sale prices and comparisons with previous records. Her parallel work as a property presenter, offering video and hosting services, complements this emphasis on high-impact homes by sharpening her ability to showcase architecture, design and views in a way that aligns with how these properties are marketed.
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Aleisha Dawson
Aleisha Dawson covers property where prestige deals, hard market data and lifestyle stories meet, with a particular focus on high-profile apartments and new projects in South East Queensland. She is a regional real estate editor within News Corp’s property network, overseeing property coverage for the Gold Coast Bulletin and contributing to Realestate.com.au’s property news. Her beat spans record-setting penthouse sales, off-market prestige deals, new apartment releases in landmark projects, and one-off high-value homes used as case studies in buyer behaviour. She tracks land and apartment markets with a data-led approach, using specific price points, volume figures and suburb lists. Dawson also reports on quirky homes, celebrity property, pop culture-linked locations and technology-shaped renovations, and her stories are widely republished by developers, agents and project marketers.
Blair Jackson
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Bonnie Campbell
Bonnie Campbell is a luxury property reporter for The Australian Financial Review who focuses on the very top of the residential market, where big-ticket homes, mega-mansions and high-profile sales set and test price records. She covers trophy properties, record-breaking deals and prestige streets, using individual sales as case studies in how wealth, status and grand houses move through the market. Her stories track extreme price movements, large-scale renovations, unusual features and multi-million dollar listings, and link them to high-net-worth buyers, business leaders and public figures. She repeatedly returns to prestige coastal, resort and lifestyle markets, explaining how scarcity, views and amenity support multi-million dollar valuations. Alongside single-property features, she produces roundups of major luxury deals to show patterns in where the biggest money flows and which houses define the top end.
Caroline Delaney
Caroline Delaney is a senior property and features journalist at the Irish Examiner whose work links individual homes, damaged houses and outdoor spaces to the wider housing landscape. She covers residential listings with clear, price‑led pieces on specific homes coming to market, highlighting core details such as guide price, size, house type and a plain sense of location. Her property features look at fire damage and repair, treating house fires as a structural issue for the housing market and following cases through court proceedings and the process of putting homes right. She also reports on outdoor spaces and synthetic lawns, including environmental experts’ views on plastic turf in domestic gardens. Her news and features background keeps the tone fact‑led rather than promotional and gives her coverage a practical focus on aspiration, risk and everyday use of housing.