rental vacancy rate

Despite being used by less than 1.06 million Australians (or 4.1 per cent of the population) in the latest available data, negative gearing is a hotly debated issue and seen by many as political Kryptonite for governments and oppositions…

Just about everywhere you look, there are worsening signs that Australia is no longer the lucky country.From record-high rents to skyrocketing mortgages, a cost-of-living crisis to the alarming emergence of a ‘working poor’ population, the…

This month, the Albanese government has broken three records for poor economic management and declining living standards.The first of these records relates to Australia’s real household disposable income, which is arguably the single best…

Australia’s rental shortage has continued to worsen with the total number of listings falling to a record annual low, a new report has revealed.Released on Monday, new analysis from PropTrack has found the number of new rental listings fell…

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…

A single mother of two has been forced to move 40 times as she struggles to keep a roof over her family’s head in Australia’s rental crisis. Sharon Westin, 46, lives in a three-bedroom rental with her two teenage sons in the Melbourne…

The national rental vacancy rate is at its lowest level since 2018, reflecting a further tightening of an already scarce rental market. The capital cities experienced a 0.1 percentage point drop in the vacancy rate in February to now sit at…

An Australian woman has called out a landlord for renting out a “studio” which appears to be a just a room in the basement of the home.Rachel McQueen, under the username rachmcqueen1, has been posting her “Real Estate with Rachel” series of…

A greedy landlord has been brutally shut down after a concerned citizen realised the homeowner was trying to illegally rent out a granny flat. On Facebook Marketplace, good Samaritan Ben* spotted a landlord advertising a tin shed based in…