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Housing affordability has barely improved despite the property market downturn, although a handful of affluent areas are the exceptions.
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Home ownership is not on 34-year-old town planner Eric Smith's to-do list as soaring property prices push the prospect of buying a house out of reach.
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The next federal government is being urged to look to the northern hemisphere for possible solutions to Australia's housing and rental crises.
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Experts are asking why affordable developments can’t be built specifically for first home buyers, in the same way as retirement villages or over-55s seniors liv…
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Labor has detailed its key housing policy, offering to help 10,000 households a year into home ownership by dramatically cutting the price of a property.
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A new survey suggests two-thirds of young voters have conceded they may never own a home.
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Housing experts have criticised the federal government’s failure to seriously address housing affordability in the budget.
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Queensland’s peak industry and community bodies are urging the federal government and opposition to convene a national housing summit.
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More than half of all renters in some major capital city federal electorates are living in housing stress, according to new data.
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Legislation passed on Friday (2 June) means first-home buyers in New South Wales will be granted increased stamp duty exemptions and concessions but will it be enough to turn renters into buyers?
While paying off a mortgage is usually more expensive than renting, that balance is shifting as rents soar and a new report reveals 17 suburbs around Australia where it is now cheaper to buy than rent.
Australia's three biggest cities are making progress towards regaining the lost ground their property markets conceded in the wake of the pandemic.
The Gold Coast is awash with short-term rentals, driving long-term rental yields to very high levels and providing temptation for property investors seeking cashflow and other buyers escaping the rent hike cycle.
The property clock is ticking towards noon for many regional property markets listed as being in a capital growth phase but only one state capital was seen as being in a growth period.
Concrete is everywhere yet its use comes at an alarming environmental price, but new production techniques and alternative materials could help cure the cancer that concrete represents for the planet's health.
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