# Welcome to Landlord Weekly

> Why we started Landlord Weekly, who writes it, what we cover each week and how we make sure the information Australian landlords rely on is right.

- Published: 24 September 2026
- Section: News & Policy
- Author: Landlord Weekly Editorial Team
- URL: https://www.landlordweekly.com/articles/welcome-to-landlord-weekly

More than 2.3 million individual taxpayers had an interest in a rental property in 2023-24, according to the [ATO's latest taxation statistics](https://www.ato.gov.au/about-ato/research-and-statistics/in-detail/taxation-statistics/taxation-statistics-2023-24/statistics-in-taxation-statistics-2023-24/individuals-statistics-for-taxation-statistics-2023-24). About 72% of them had an interest in just one property. Almost all of them are trying to make sense of the same things: interest rates, tax rules, tenancy reforms and the question of whether the numbers still stack up.

Landlord Weekly exists for them.

Here is how they broke down by the number of properties each person held in the 2023-24 income year.

**Individuals with a rental property interest, by number of properties, 2023-24**

| Properties held | Individuals |
| --- | --- |
| 1 | 1,672,616 |
| 2 | 438,906 |
| 3 | 135,327 |
| 4 | 48,690 |
| 5 | 19,849 |
| 6 or more | 20,152 |

**Key takeaways**

- Landlord Weekly publishes news, analysis and practical guides for every Australian landlord, whether you use an agent or manage the property yourself.
- Each week we publish The Weekly, one long-form feature on the issue landlords are asking about most.
- Everything we write is sourced from primary material, dated, and updated when the rules change.

## Why we started Landlord Weekly

We are landlords. We manage our own properties, which means we have signed the leases, lodged the bonds, chased the late rent and sat with the tax return in June wondering which receipts we had lost.

The problem we kept running into: good information for landlords is scattered. The rules sit on government sites written for lawyers. Market data sits behind paywalls or inside bank research notes. The news coverage tends to treat landlords either as villains or as a source of clicks. Very little of it is written by people who actually own a rental and have to make a decision on Monday morning.

So we decided to write the publication we wanted to read.

## What we cover

Our coverage is organised into seven sections:

- **[News and Policy](https://www.landlordweekly.com/section/news):** interest rates, housing policy, Budget measures and the announcements that change the numbers.
- **[Tax and Finance](https://www.landlordweekly.com/section/tax-finance):** deductions, depreciation, negative gearing, capital gains and lending.
- **[Tenancy and Compliance](https://www.landlordweekly.com/section/tenancy):** leases, bonds, repairs, minimum standards and the direction of rental reform.
- **[Property Management](https://www.landlordweekly.com/section/property-management):** choosing and working with an agent, or doing the job yourself.
- **[Investing](https://www.landlordweekly.com/section/investing):** yields, growth, holding costs and long-term strategy.
- **[Comparisons](https://www.landlordweekly.com/section/comparisons):** side-by-side evaluations of the tools and services landlords pay for, with our criteria shown.
- **[Guides](https://www.landlordweekly.com/section/guides):** step-by-step explainers, starting with [our guide for new landlords](https://www.landlordweekly.com/articles/new-landlord-guide-australia).

## The Weekly

Once a week we publish a long-form feature called [The Weekly](https://www.landlordweekly.com/weekly). It takes the question landlords are asking most that week and answers it properly: what happened, what the data says, and what it means for the decisions in front of you. The first issue looks at [the rental market, interest rates and the reforms in Victoria](https://www.landlordweekly.com/articles/rental-market-interest-rates-september-2026).

## How we work

A few standards apply to everything we publish.

**Primary sources first.** We work from the ATO, the RBA, the ABS, Treasury, legislation and the state regulators wherever we can, and we link to them so you can check our work.

**Dates on everything.** Every article shows when it was published and when it was last updated. Rules for landlords change often, so when they do, we update the article and say so.

**National, not parochial.** Tenancy law is set by each state and territory and changes frequently. Our guides explain the principles that apply across Australia and point you to your own state regulator for the detail, rather than pretending one article can cover eight sets of rules.

**Fair to everyone.** We write from the landlord's side of the table, but good tenants and good agents are the reason most tenancies work. We will say so.

**General information only.** Nothing we publish is personal financial, legal or tax advice. It is the research we would want in hand before speaking to an accountant, a lawyer or a lender.

## How to follow Landlord Weekly

You can read more about who we are and how we work on the [About page](https://www.landlordweekly.com/about). If you prefer a feed reader, our [RSS feed](https://www.landlordweekly.com/feed.xml) carries every article in full.

Welcome aboard.

## Sources

- [ATO: Taxation statistics 2023-24, individuals (Table 8, rental interests)](https://www.ato.gov.au/about-ato/research-and-statistics/in-detail/taxation-statistics/taxation-statistics-2023-24/statistics-in-taxation-statistics-2023-24/individuals-statistics-for-taxation-statistics-2023-24)

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*General information only, not financial, legal or tax advice. Source: Landlord Weekly, https://www.landlordweekly.com/articles/welcome-to-landlord-weekly*