rental prices

The federal budget has been delivered and, while it’s very good news if you are a high-income earner, young Aussies feel they have been, once again, left behind.Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Treasurer Jim Chalmers handed down their…

The stories about the rental crisis are terrifying. Renters are facing big price hikes from their current landlords, and anyone entering the rental market is looking at even bigger price hikes. When a landlord gets new tenants, they tend to…

Australian tenants are being hit hard by inflation with fresh analysis showing 75 per cent of rental properties have increased in price over the past year.Before the pandemic, landlords had increased the rental prices of only about a…

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…

Warnings have been issued over a deepening housing crisis, with more and more Queenslanders forced to live in cars and ‘tent cities’. Calls for more short-term and crisis accommodation come ahead of the state government’s housing summit on…

Students and young people are barely holding on during the current rental crisis, with dozens of young people taking to Sydney streets to protest what they say is a lack of action from the major parties. One student revealed that he and his…

A triple threat is headed towards desperate Australians after the Reserve Bank of Australia hiked rates for the tenth time in a row.While some experts accused the RBA of taking a “sledgehammer” to the economy by pushing rates to a 11 year…

As the nationwide rental crisis tightens its grip on those looking for a home, relief is on the way for people in one state. The practice known as rental bidding, where tenants are encouraged to offer above the asking price of a property,…

Comments made by one of Australia’s best known real estate CEOs defending “greedy landlords” have divided the country as further rent increases loom. Leanne Pilkington, Chief Executive Officer and Director at Laing+Simmons, is calling on…

You might want to brace yourself for this one.A pair of dilapidated “studio apartments” up for rent has dumbfounded users on a Sydney Facebook group, with some wondering how it ever came to this.The tiny rooms — one featuring cracked tiles…