Nick Whigham
Nick Whigham leads coverage at Yahoo Finance Australia on how property markets, tax rules and investment trends translate into real-world consequences for households and everyday investors. His reporting sits at the junction of housing, personal finance and regulation, with a consistent focus on cost-of-living pressures and how readers can protect or grow their money. He blends policy and market analysis with practical angles, turning complex changes in property and superannuation into clear stories framed around what homeowners, renters and workers need to watch.
Apartment owners warned after woman's shock $52,000 repair bill
Whigham’s coverage of real estate often starts with an individual experience and expands outward to the broader risk it reveals. In reporting on an apartment owner facing a $52,000 repair bill that exceeded her mortgage, he uses a single case to highlight the potential for sudden, large capital works costs that can catch owners off guard.
The framing around hidden obligations and “warning” language reflects his tendency to translate technical issues like strata governance, building maintenance and special levies into clear financial threats for ordinary property owners. Across similar work, he anchors stories in the dollar impact, making it explicit how unexpected costs can alter a household budget or investment plan.
Aussie states ramp up modular housing push as governments, Bunnings eye delivery of cheaper apartments
Whigham frequently tracks government and industry efforts to reshape housing supply, particularly where they promise cheaper or faster-built homes. In covering state-led modular housing programs involving major retail and construction players, he focuses on what these initiatives mean for apartment affordability and the pipeline of new stock entering the market. His reporting highlights the role of policy design, procurement models and corporate partnerships, but always ties them back to practical outcomes such as price points, delivery timelines and the kinds of buyers or renters who stand to benefit. This thread - structural change in the housing system described through its eventual effect on costs and choice - distinguishes his approach from basic descriptions of new projects.
Homeowners warned as new ATO crackdown takes effect
Regulatory enforcement and tax changes are a recurring focus in his property coverage, especially where they touch everyday investors and owner-occupiers. When reporting on an Australian Taxation Office crackdown that had “slipped under the radar”, Whigham frames the story around homeowners being warned about compliance risks and potential financial hits, rather than around the agency itself. Similar work on major property tax changes and the weakening of once-popular wealth strategies details how new rules alter the after-tax returns of investments and the viability of established planning tactics.
He tends to bring financial advisers and other practitioners into these pieces, using their commentary to spell out how policy shifts change behaviour in the market and what actions readers need to consider.
Millions of workers urged to check their superannuation today
Whigham’s beat extends beyond bricks and mortar into broader personal finance, especially retirement savings and investment vehicles that shape long-term wealth. In reporting that millions of workers should urgently check their superannuation, he zeroes in on looming changes and low awareness, making the story about the risk of inaction as implementation deadlines approach. Coverage of upcoming “payday super” reforms similarly emphasises how new contribution rules will affect both employers and employees, with a focus on timelines and compliance obligations. He also writes on how young Australians are using exchange-traded funds to build wealth differently from previous generations, detailing why ETFs have become a preferred entry point and how that choice fits into broader portfolio strategies.
External references to his work show him drawing on interviews with market participants such as buyers’ agents and financial advisers, using their frontline experience to explain competitive auction conditions, rapid growth in advisory services and emerging red flags in the market.
Across property and personal finance, Whigham’s distinguishing through-line is a practical, impact-first style of business reporting. He consistently frames stories around who is affected, what it will cost or save them, and what actions they should consider in response to shifting rules, markets and opportunities. That mix of regulatory detail, market context and clear financial stakes defines his work at Yahoo Finance Australia and makes his coverage a reference point for readers trying to navigate both housing decisions and broader money management.
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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
Blair Jackson explains housing through money: how prices, policy and banks shape the way people buy, sell and live. He is a reporter with the national wire service NewsWire, covering real estate and household finance across Australia. His work follows housing downturns, price movements, negative equity, mortgages, first-home buyers and existing borrowers. He reports on renters, poor housing conditions, high rents, repairs, affordability and housing inequality. He examines zoning, supply targets, tax changes, construction limits, development decisions and efforts to fix housing shortages. His finance coverage includes mortgage fraud, bank risk, interest rates, household costs and windfalls used to pay off property. He also covers auctions, listings, luxury homes, renovations and major developments. Jackson combines data, policy analysis, expert warnings, open-home and auction detail, and personal examples to show how financial decisions affect households and communities.
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.