Every capital city on the mainland has already had its run. Tasmania hasn't, and it's the most affordable state market in the country. That's exactly why we build our dual villa strategy here: an affordable entry price, a rental market so tight it's officially in emergency, and a 2026 tax reform that rewards new builds while it winds back the concessions on established property.
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Every strategy we build exists to solve the same four things for our clients. New property is the tool. Where we build that property changes how hard the tool works for you, and right now Tasmania is doing more of that work than anywhere else in the country.
That's what this page is about. Not a different strategy, the same one, built on the market that's still affordable while everywhere else has already moved.
The ATO takes a bigger slice every year, with little structure in place to claw any of it back.
Thirty years of repayments ahead, and the balance that never seems to move.
The balance meant to fund a comfortable retirement is quietly falling short.
The next generation can't get a foot on the property ladder without a hand up.
Australian cities rarely rise together. They take turns, like a rubber band stretching and snapping back. The longer a market lags, the more ground it tends to make up when it finally moves. Tasmania has been the one waiting.
"The last one to move, and it has already started." Sydney and Melbourne are now falling month on month. Hobart and regional Tasmania are not.
When rates rise and lending tightens, buyers chase what they can still afford. Growth stops being about prestige and starts being about price. Perth, Adelaide and Brisbane kept posting gains through the rate rises on exactly this logic. Tasmania is next.
Prices sit low while rents keep climbing.
Renting gets so dear that buying wins on the numbers.
Buyers return and push prices back up.
Prices stretch too far. Renting takes over, and rents climb again.
The May 2026 Budget reshaped property tax. The short version is simple: what changed for established property didn't change for a brand-new house and land package.
Negative gearing wound backBought after budget night, losses can no longer offset your wages from July 2027.
CGT discount reworkedThe 50% discount is being replaced with indexation and a minimum tax rate.
Borrowing capacity cutLenders are already trimming serviceability by up to around 30%.
Negative gearing keptNew builds remain negatively gearable, exempt from the wind-back.
50% CGT discount keptEligible new builds retain the existing capital gains discount.
One of the few left standingNew supply is exactly what the reforms are built to reward.
Sources: Australian Taxation Office; Budget 2026-27 papers. General information only, not taxation or credit advice. Seek advice on your own position.
Affordability got Tasmania onto the radar. These are the reasons it stays there.
The most affordable state market in the country, with our villas built well below the state median house price.
Vacancy sat around 0.4% to 0.7% through 2025-26, roughly half the national rate. There simply isn't enough stock.
Rents in the affordable band comfortably carry the holding costs, so the strategy doesn't rely on your own income to run it.
Agriculture, aquaculture, healthcare, tourism, forestry, advanced manufacturing and Antarctic science. Tasmania isn't a one-industry punt.
Marinus Link, Battery of the Nation, the new Bridgewater Bridge and new Bass Strait ferries are already funded and underway.
Hobart and regional Tasmania are already outpacing Sydney and Melbourne. This isn't a market we're waiting to turn, it already has.
These aren't proposals sitting in a drawer. Most are funded, under construction, or already delivered.
Second Bass Strait cable. 750 MW, powering around 750,000 homes.
Tarraleah rebuild and Lake Cethana pumped hydro storage.
Green hydrogen and ammonia for domestic use and export.
Offshore wind proposed in the north-east zone, plus a new renewable terminal at Bell Bay.
Renewable-powered AI facilities at Launceston and Bell Bay.
Hobart yard that built the world's largest electric ferry, now exporting to Europe and South America.
Tin, tungsten and zinc. Mining accounts for over half the state's exports.
The largest transport project in the state's history.
Larger Bass Strait vessels and a rebuilt Devonport port.
Housing, public space and a proposed $1.13B stadium.
Redevelopment of York Park in the state's north.
Greater Hobart heading from 251,000 toward 298,000 residents.
Sources: Marinus Link Pty Ltd; ReCFIT; TasPorts; Firmus; Incat; Mineral Resources Tasmania; Centre for Population; Australian and Tasmanian Government releases (2024–26). Some projects are proposed or subject to approvals and funding. Stadium and precinct remain subject to planning approval.
Current data, honest ranges. Where providers disagree, we say so.
Sources: Cotality Home Value Index (30 Jun 2026); SQM Research Residential Vacancy Rates (2025-26); Aussie / CoreLogic state figures (2026). Ranges shown where sources differ.
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Most of what we build sits around Tasmania's four main hubs. Below that, we go deeper: suburb by suburb, with a dedicated profile for every estate we build in.
Sources: Cotality, HtAG and realestate data providers (2026). Figures are indicative and vary by provider and segment. Burnie and Devonport are thinner, more volatile markets.
Every estate gets its own full profile: heritage, economy, funded pipeline, honestly-stated metrics and a written local rental appraisal, not a suburb average. Click through for the full picture.
A working town the visitor economy hasn't hollowed out. Vacancy near 2%, only 22% of homes in the rental pool.
Australia's third-oldest town, next door to 740+ new energy jobs at Bell Bay. Vacancy already at 1%, before that workforce arrives.
A heritage river town with a working economy and a rental market tighter than almost anywhere in the country.
Home to the Red Bridge, Australia's oldest surviving brick arch bridge, and a decade-long track record averaging 11.4% growth a year.
Home to North-West Tasmania's largest hospital precinct and Burnie City's largest employment sector, priced well under the state median.
Tasmania's oldest East Coast municipality, established 1821, and the southern gateway to Wineglass Bay.
The birthplace of competitive woodchopping, more than 70 heritage-listed buildings, and a genuine river town 10 minutes from Devonport.
Semi-rural living inside Devonport's city limits, minutes from a $493 million port upgrade.
A beach-town lifestyle on the Rubicon Estuary, closer to Devonport's port and hospital than almost anywhere else on the coast.
Founded in 1831 as the mainland port for the Maria Island convict settlement. Now its front doorstep.
Every project needs an exit. Ours is designed in from day one. Two affordable, two-bedroom villas sell into the two deepest, most durable buyer pools in the country.
When money gets tight, demand concentrates at the affordable end. That's exactly what makes it the most resilient place to sell. Affordable will always be affordable.
Read the FAQStepping onto the ladder. A two-bedroom villa at an affordable price is often the only realistic way in, and government incentives point them straight at new, lower-priced stock.
Stepping off it. Older owners cashing out of a large family home want low-maintenance, single-level living close to services, which is exactly what these villas are.
This was never just about Tasmania. It's about the tax you're overpaying, the mortgage that won't move, the super that won't be enough, and the kids you'd like to help. Building where the market still has room to run just means the strategy does its job faster.
Talk through your own numbersNew-build depreciation and gearing typically returns $15,000 to $20,000 a year, on top of the concessions the 2026 reforms keep for new stock.
Direct the equity uplift from a completed project straight at your own home loan.
A growing, income-producing asset base to lean on alongside your retirement savings.
Once your own position is secure, put the equity you've built to work getting them started.
Book a free 15-minute intro call with a Property Investment Strategist. We'll map the strategy to you, secure your own position first, then build the plan around it.
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