First-home buyers
The type of homeowner most likely to fall behind on their mortgage
Interest rates are putting pressure on home borrowers, but some are feeling the pinch more deeply and have fewer options to manage.
- by Shona Hendley
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‘A little piece of paradise’: The most affordable sea-change towns
Australia’s most affordable sea-change towns have just been revealed in new data that compares property prices with incomes.
- by Elizabeth Redman
‘Bulldozer’ PM blasts Senate in election clash on housing and environment
The Greens say Anthony Albanese is being a “bulldozer” like former PM Scott Morrison as Labor seeks to stare down the minor party over blocking reforms.
- by David Crowe
Where you can buy a house for less than $1m within 10km of Melbourne’s CBD
Hopeful home buyers don’t have to give up proximity to the city to buy something for less than Melbourne’s median house price.
- by Alexandra Middleton
The cheapest suburbs to buy a house within 10km of Sydney’s CBD
Home buying hopefuls will find the cheapest options close to the city centre in a string of southern and inner west suburbs.
- by Kristy Johnson
‘Cost of living is so much cheaper’: Regional towns with the smallest house price increases
Buyers looking for falls in prices will be disappointed, but a full and rewarding lifestyle is on offer in the areas where rises in house price weren’t extreme.
- by Carmen Forward
Suburbs where families can’t afford to pay the mortgage, and can’t afford not to
Most home owners have managed to keep up with 13 interest rate rises, but in some areas at least one in 50 borrowers are behind.
- by Elizabeth Redman
Jess and Will dreamt of buying a home. Then scammers took $49,000
The first home buyers saved and never ordered avocado toast – but their dream became a nightmare, one that’s happening to more and more Australians.
- by Alex Brooks
The Sydney suburbs where first home buyers are saving on stamp duty
Thousands of NSW residents are taking advantage of the state government’s help to get a foot on the property ladder – and one area is benefiting most.
- by Megan Gorrey
‘Warning sign’: Where home owners are selling their properties now
More home owners are getting ready to sell their properties in areas where it may not be the best time to make a move.
- by Elizabeth Redman
‘Parents are kicking in $200,000 or $1 million’: Home deposit gap widens
It can now take a dual-income couple almost a decade to save a deposit for their first home, but many buyers have another way.
- by Elizabeth Redman
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