First-home buyers

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Rising rents make it harder to save for a home.

The modest type of housing where rents have soared

Landlords are asking tenants to find hundreds of dollars more a week for the same properties than they were a few years ago.

  • Elizabeth Redman

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Australia has many small households, but not many one-bedroom homes.

Call for ‘desirable’ spare bedrooms to be taxed to help fix housing

More than 60 per cent of Australian households contain only one or two people, but new research shows most homes are family-sized.

  • Elizabeth Redman
As housing costs rise, more people move in together.

We’re building 1.2m new homes, but we’re not using the homes we have

Work has started on speeding up the delivery of new home-building, but there are also options to put existing homes to better use.

  • Elizabeth Redman
Three parties competed for the period home in Essendon.

‘Melbourne’s coming back’: Young family pays $200,000 above reserve to nab $1.45m period home

Three parties fought with rapid-fire bids, pushing the price more than $200,000 above the sellers’ hopes.

  • Elizabeth Redman
Christine Clark, a 56-year-old single mother, cannot afford to buy a house that suits her life following her divorce.

Christine owned a home. Then she separated and can’t buy back in. She’s not alone

The 56-year-old can’t rent-vest, her ex couldn’t buy her out and buying a family home is no longer an option.

  • Caroline Zielinski
New homes are getting approved, then getting stuck.

Australia is trying to build 1.2 million homes, but they’re getting stuck

Never have so many homes been delivered over a five-year period – but there could be a better solution.

  • Elizabeth Redman and Jim Malo
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Home prices have risen faster than wages.

‘It only gets worse’: How it got even harder to buy a home

The challenge of getting onto the property ladder has blown out beyond what previous generations faced themselves.

  • Sue Williams
Who’s the main breadwinner in your house? Could it be the house itself?

The Perth suburbs where house values rose most over 20 years

The cost of living is pushing people further away from the CBD – but there is a limit to how far people will move.

  • Holly Thompson
6/16 Church Street, Hunters Hill NSW 2110

First home buyer pays $1.02 million for unit in ritzy Sydney suburb

A first home buyer living in the family home in Hunters Hill, paid $1.02 million at auction on Saturday for a unit in the suburb.

  • Kristy Johnson
The best returns over the past five years were not from the typical home in Sydney or Melbourne.

A new book aims to fix housing affordability, but there’s a 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