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When the Reserve Bank Australia (RBA) pulled the trigger on their 13th interest rate rise of the current cycle on Melbourne Cup Day, the nation’s attention swiftly shifted back to one key question: are there more rate rises to come?In the…

Prospective rental tenants across the country face even tougher conditions after the national vacancy rate dropped to its lowest level on record.The vacancy rate slumped to 1.02 per cent in October marking a 0.6 percentage point slide from…

Australians are hoovering up cocaine and methylamphetamine at alarming levels, a new report has found, with consumption of the illicit drug classes now at their highest levels since 2020.An analysis of wastewater run by the Australian…

A renter has exposed one of the most shocking properties currently up for rent in Queensland. Rach McQueen is reviewing some of the market lowlights in a rental review series – which boasts more than 50,000 followers – on TikTok titled…

The “biggest cost of living crisis” – where renters have been hit with massive rises and young people have been locked out of buying a home – was not tackled in the budget, and “bold” moves are needed solve the problem, according to…

As the rental crisis continues to unfold throughout much of the nation, it has left many of us wondering how this could have occurred in a nation as cumulatively wealthy as Australia. By going through some of the data from the ABS, RBA and…

The thousands of Australians struggling to find a rental property amid a tight market can begin to have some hope with vacancy rates rising slightly across the country. Amid months of low vacancy rates, the total number rental properties…

Essential workers are spending about two thirds of their income on housing on average as the housing affordability crisis prices them out of their communities and exacerbates staff shortages across Australia.New analysis has found early…

At the beginning of May last year, the Reserve Bank embarked on the largest and swiftest rise in interest rates in relative terms in the nation’s history. While rates have risen almost as quickly in the past, particularly during the high…

Since capital city housing prices peaked in May of last year, things have only got ever more challenging for the nation’s property market. In the past nine months, Australians have seen the largest and most rapid rise in mortgage servicing…