Housing affordability
- Analysis
- Victoria residential property
A new book aims to fix housing affordability, but there’s better solution for Victoria
Abundance has captured the attention of economists and politicians alike, but could a simple solution be sitting right under their noses?
- Jim Malo
Latest
Brisbane house prices hit a record high - and one suburb nears a $3m median
Brisbane’s median house price has surged by $22,000 in just three months, reaching a new record high as interest rates fall.
- Sarah Webb
‘Affordability is poor’: Melbourne house prices rise above $1.06m
Falling interest rates are pushing up property prices, and buyers are starting to worry they might get priced out of their preferred areas.
- Caroline Zielinski
Public housing tower demolition plan is ‘ethnic cleansing’, says mayor
Yarra Mayor Stephen Jolly has slammed the state’s plan to demolish Melbourne’s public housing towers as a land grab and threatened street resistance in explosive inquiry testimony.
- Rachael Dexter
Justin has $300,000 in the bank but can’t get a home loan
He’s among many Australians getting closer to retirement who are trying to solve the puzzle of owning a home that suits their life.
- Caroline Zielinski
Sydney suburbs where house values rose most over 20 years
Home buyers are moving in and longer-term owners are taking the opportunity to sell after property prices multiplied fourfold or more.
- Kristy Johnson
Melbourne suburbs where house values rose most over 20 years
Home buyers are arriving in droves, sellers are pocketing the growth and investors from near and far have started to catch on.
- Melissa Heagney-Bayliss
- Opinion
- Housing crisis
Want to ruin your weekend and make a bunch of enemies? Attend an open home
Cramming into an unfamiliar house with a collection of strangers on a Saturday morning is a great way to become the worst version of yourself.
- Thomas Mitchell
‘I had no idea about some of the issues’: The Aussies finding the downsides to downsizing
Downsizing is touted as the easy route to a lock-up-and-go, low-maintenance, maximum money-in-the-bank lifestyle. But you won’t see its many downsides mentioned in the glossy brochures for new apartment complexes.
- Sue Williams
The new type of regional town that’s booming
Property prices have jumped by double digits to record highs in a string of regional areas, but not Byron Bay or Torquay.
- Elizabeth Redman
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