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The Greens will call on the federal government to develop 360,000 homes in the next five years for the public to buy or rent.
AFFORDABILITY
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Home buyers who have a $500,000 budget could afford fewer than one in 10 properties in some markets as affordable property options plummet.
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Australian property prices have rebounded strongly this year, but there are still some affordable pockets where would-be buyers can pick up a home from just $17…
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Home buyers would need to earn up to $90,000 more than they did early last year to afford to buy a median-priced house as rising interest rates slash buyer budg…
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Australian housing wealth is meaningless, destructive and fundamentally changing our society (The Guardian)
High-priced homes do not create wealth, Alan Kohler says, they redistribute it. Now financial success is largely a function of geography, not accomplishment.
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Getting into the property market has become almost impossible for young people, to the point that even cashed-up tradies are struggling to buy and maintain thei…
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Although property prices continue to climb, data reveals it is possible to still buy a home for under $500,000.
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The real estate agent selling a Tasmanian property for $80,000 doesn’t remember a time during his youth when the decrepit Queenstown residence wasn’t vacant.
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Households on median income could afford to buy 13% of homes.
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Sydney unit rents have soared by $145 a week over the past year, putting pressure on household budgets already stretched by other rising costs.
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The Greens and the Coalition have teamed up again to present a vote being taken on the government’s $10 billion Housing Australia Future Fund.
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As Aussies battle rising interest rates and a rental shortage, one town has just auctioned off 11 properties for extraordinary low prices.
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