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Hidden black mould revealed after renters pulled a couch from the wall, submitted to the Facebook page Don’t Rent Me.

Aimee’s rental is making her sick. One in three homes have the same issue

Despite minimum-standard regulations introduced by the Queensland government last year, tenants have limited options when homes become unsafe to live in.

  • Courtney Kruk

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Brisbane lord mayor Adrian Schrinner delivered council’s annual 2025-26 budget.

Lord mayor defends $100 rate hike for inner-city Brisbane units

But others worry it sends the wrong message in a housing crisis.

  • Courtney Kruk
Aaron Christie-David, the managing director of Atelier Wealth Mortgage Brokers, said first home buyers are sitting on the sidelines.

FOMO has hit the housing market, and it’s just the beginning

House prices are on the move and buyers have a sense of urgency – some would say panic – to get in before they are priced out.

  • Elizabeth Knight
Demand has swelled at the same time as a construction slowdown has hit WA’s housing industry.

WA ‘not doing enough’ to fix worsening housing crisis

Experts have urged the state and federal government to act urgently, after a new report revealed the state of WA’s housing market was worse than ever.

  • Holly Thompson
It’s the rental market where the supply shortfall bites hardest.

Australia’s housing crisis has been laid bare – and there’s one major factor to blame

This crisis has been years in the making and its consequences are being felt by hundreds of thousands of renters, first home buyers and, increasingly, middle-income earners on good salaries.

  • Alan Duncan
A makeshift homeless encampment under the Riverside Expressway in Brisbane CBD.

Tents have disappeared, tunnels cleared. Where are homeless sleeping?

As winter settles in, advocates are again asking for all levels of government to step up.

  • Courtney Kruk
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The media rent price in WA is now $613 a week.

‘Poverty trap’: Perth is now the second most expensive city to rent in Australia

New data shows a sharp increase in the price of rentals in WA over the past six years, making it one of the most unaffordable places for tenants in the country.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
WA’s stamp duty exemption threshold has barely increased in the past decade.

House price rises were meant to ease. So what’s happened?

The theory that the Australian home market will bump up against affordability constraints has made a mockery of price predictions.

  • Elizabeth Knight
Nurse Penny Farries spends up to an hour and a half commuting to work from her home in Illawong

Penny’s commute is 90 minutes each way. No wonder workers like her are quitting

Most of Sydney’s care workers live in the city’s west, but demand is highest in the east. That mismatch is taking a growing toll.

  • Matt Wade
The fate of Rosehill racecourse is being decided today.

D-Day arrives: Rosehill mini-city proposal rejected

Rosehill racecourse’s mooted transformation into a massive new housing development has been dealt a fatal blow.

  • Michael McGowan, Jessica McSweeney, Kayla Olaya and Max Maddison

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