About The Property Tribune

The Property Tribune

Overview

The Property Tribune is an independent Australian online news publication devoted to property, published from Perth, Western Australia. Founded by digital media entrepreneur Evan Cunningham-Dunlop and formally launched in June 2021, it covers residential and commercial real estate for home buyers, investors, renters and industry professionals, mixing newsroom reporting with a wide network of guest contributions from working property practitioners. Its coverage is organised into sections for latest news, guides, property developments, property finance, market insights, commercial real estate, business and industry, international property, opinion and lifestyle, and it publishes fresh articles daily. From its Perth base the publication reports nationally, with heavy coverage of Western Australian housing and development alongside market analysis for the eastern states and an extensive stream of coverage of the PropertyGuru Asia Property Awards programme in Australia. The site is free to read, and the publication describes its editorial stance in its own guidelines as strictly and proudly apolitical.

History

The Property Tribune grew out of the Perth digital media business of Evan Cunningham-Dunlop, who had earlier founded the Perth digital agency Living Online and Perth SEO Studio after a career that moved from film and television — where he worked as a director, producer and editor with credits on ABC TV, National Geographic, Discovery and SBS — into management consulting, while also completing an MBA at the University of Western Australia with high distinction, receiving a Krasnostein prize for his studies. Content was appearing on the site from early 2021, with contributors filing during the first months of that year — one early contributor recorded that he had been writing for the site for four months, while a reporter, Sebastian, worked on the title from January to August 2021 — before the publication was formally launched at an event on Thursday 3 June 2021 in Living Online's offices in Subiaco, Perth; the launch had been postponed twice, once for roadworks outside the office and once for a COVID-19 lockdown, and the Subiaco mayor Penny Taylor was among the guests who spoke. Charlie Gunningham, a veteran of Western Australian business media who also manages Startup News, served as managing editor at launch. The publication's own launch coverage described its model plainly from the start: professional journalists and researchers producing news and long-form guides, supplemented by invited experts from across the property industry writing on their specialist subjects, with readers encouraged to write in with the property questions they could not find answered anywhere else.

Content and Coverage

The Property Tribune's daily news file covers the Australian property market end to end. Market insights include rental-market and price analysis from contributors such as Hotspotting founder Tim Graham, while the guides section answers practical questions for buyers, sellers, landlords and tenants — recent explainers have covered rentvesting, what happens to a rental bond after a fixed-term lease ends, and the application process for vacant strata lots. Property finance coverage ranges from daily explainers on mortgage stress and first home buyer schemes to detailed glossary-style pieces on home-loan terminology, and the developments section tracks new housing, hotel and mixed-use projects, including Perth projects such as the Elizabeth Quay West tower. Commercial coverage follows office, industrial and retail property, and the business and industry section carries extensive reporting on the PropertyGuru Asia Property Awards (Australia), whose 2026 shortlists and jurisdictional awards the publication covered through 2026, including state-by-state winner lists for Queensland, Victoria and Tasmania and previews of the national contenders. The guides library also reaches into the fine print of property life, with explainers on the difference between a body corporate and an owners corporation in each state, how to read a strata report, and what mortgage terminology actually means, and the opinion section carries argument from both staff and industry contributors on housing policy and market direction. An international section looks beyond Australia — recent items have examined Singapore shophouses and overseas wages — and a lifestyle section covers design and events such as Perth Design Week. Byline regulars on the current site include reporters Thierry Ng, Henry Thai and Ben Newport, features writer Brenda Ledwith and former West Australian journalist Rhys Tarling, alongside regular expert columns from practitioners including InvestorKit's Arjun Paliwal and property commentator Bushy Martin.

Audience and Reach

The Property Tribune addresses a national audience of property buyers, investors, renters and real estate professionals, with its newsroom in Perth giving its Western Australian coverage particular depth. It publishes no audited readership figure, and none is claimed here. The clearest dated measure of its output comes from The Perth Property Show podcast, which in its 2023-era description of the publication said it releases over 100 new property-related articles a week; that figure is the podcast's own description of the site and is presented as such rather than as an audited statistic. The publication's growth model — a small newsroom amplified by a large roster of invited industry contributors, from buyer's agents and economists to strata managers and conveyancers — is itself part of its reach strategy, distributing its content through contributors' own professional networks across the country.

Digital Presence

The Property Tribune is an online-only publication, and thepropertytribune.com.au is its sole platform: there is no print edition. The site is updated daily — its featured news in September 2026 included the 12 September PropertyGuru Asia Property Awards (Australia) event — and articles from across 2026 are dated throughout its sections. It maintains author and contributor pages for its team, including founder Evan Cunningham-Dunlop and regulars such as Rhys Tarling and Brenda Ledwith, and an editorial guidelines page setting out its independence and contribution rules. Its publishing cadence and dated content through the second half of 2026 confirm an actively operating news site. The site also keeps individual author archive pages for its reporters and regular expert contributors, so its publishing record can be browsed directly from its 2021 launch coverage through to its September 2026 awards features.

Ownership and Organisation

The Property Tribune is founder-led. Its chief executive officer and founder is Evan Cunningham-Dunlop, who also founded the Perth digital agency Living Online and Perth SEO Studio, and the publication was launched from Living Online's Subiaco office in Perth; Cunningham-Dunlop's own profile on the site records more than 20 years across media, technology, sales and marketing, including senior consulting roles with the Change Corporation and Rio Tinto. At launch the managing editor was Charlie Gunningham, and the current team page lists journalists and contributors including Brenda Ledwith, Thierry Ng, Rhys Tarling, Henry Thai, Ben Newport and Michael Cameron, together with a large panel of regular expert contributors from the property industry. The publication's contributor model is governed by published editorial guidelines under which contributions are invited or submitted for consideration, comment on parties in the news is sought where a party is identifiable, and the publication reserves its editorial independence — the framework through which it distinguishes its news content from contributors' opinion pieces.

Contact and Availability

The Property Tribune is published from Perth, Western Australia — its launch, founder and newsroom are all Perth-based, centred on Subiaco — and is available free to readers everywhere online at thepropertytribune.com.au. Its editorial guidelines publish an editorial contact email, editor@thepropertytribune.com.au, for contributions and queries, and its team and contributor pages on the site carry the publication's current bylines. No street address is published by the outlet, so none is given here.