Housing affordability
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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‘Attractive place to live’: Sea-change towns in the million-dollar club
They have great natural amenities as well as features such as popular restaurants or in-demand schools, and prices are on the rise.
- Shona Hendley
Anthony is trying to build a house. It comes with 86 conditions
The builder has seen regulations blow out over the years, making it harder to deliver affordable housing.
- Elizabeth Redman and Kristy Johnson
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
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
What we know so far about plans to make Australia richer, happier and more productive
Three days, 900 submissions and a few dozen attendees. Here’s what we can expect from the economic reform roundtable this week.
- Millie Muroi
How the stamp duty burden near-tripled in a generation
Stamp duty has risen faster than incomes over the past two and a half decades, slugging current home buyers with extra costs compared to a generation ago.
- Elizabeth Redman
The rules you must follow when building a home – and how much extra it costs
Ever tighter government rules cover everything from balustrade heights to windows and parking, sparking warnings that well-intentioned rules are strangling housing supply.
- Millie Muroi
The luxury suburbs where the most expensive homes are going through the roof
The gap between top-end house prices and more affordable abodes has narrowed, but mansions in some areas are priced far above the rest.
- Elizabeth Redman
The type of negatively geared landlords who lose the most money
Some owners of an investment property are losing $6900 per year, but others have managed to lose less.
- Caroline Zielinski