First-home buyers
Sydney suburbs where first home buyers could save on stamp duty
Property prices in dozens more Sydney suburbs could soon be in reach for first home buyers wanting to qualify for stamp duty relief, but at what cost?
- by Kate Burke
Latest
First home buyer beats 26 others to one-bedroom unit with $847,000 bid
The Newtown unit was guided at $650,000 – almost $200,000 less than the price the buyer eventually paid.
- by Tawar Razaghi
‘Ongoing crisis’: Alarming share of young people can’t afford to save for a house
Only one in 10 potential first home buyers could achieve home ownership, and most would struggle to save a deposit, make the mortgage repayments or both.
- by Tawar Razaghi
A breath of fresh air: Three options for building better apartments
Sustainable communities. Build-to-rent-to-own. ‘Gentle’ density. Rather than wait for new apartment design rules, some developers are making new models.
- by Michael Bachelard
Series
Housing affordability
What is happening to The Great Australian Dream?
Is our love affair with housing responsible for the problems plaguing our cities, governments and way of life?
‘It’s so obvious’: How to fix Perth’s housing hell
A Perth property expert has called for action to ease WA’s worst ever housing supply crisis, to attract construction workers to the state and to slow urban sprawl.
- by Sarah Brookes
How the Australian housing industry boomed into a generational problem
The COVID-19 pandemic only exacerbated longstanding problems in the country’s housing market.
- by Rachel Clun, Shane Wright and Craig Butt
Exclusive
Housing affordability
Squeezed out of the Australian dream: Two-thirds of young people are giving up on home ownership
Experts believe the nation’s living standards and productivity performance are being harmed by the way the property sector is distorting business and consumer behaviour.
- by Shane Wright and Craig Butt
Exclusive
Housing affordability
How the great Australian dream transformed the economy into a house of cards
In a country with some of the most expensive housing in the world, Australians are carrying record levels of debt to pay for homes ever more distant from their places of work.
- by Shane Wright, Rachel Clun and Craig Butt
Opinion
Housing affordability
Australians have made the wrong choice about housing for the past 40 years
Our love affair with property is literally destroying our way of life and that of future generations.
- by Shane Wright
Blink and you’ll miss it: Perth property snapped up in days as prices rise
Despite 10 consecutive interest rate rises homes are being snapped up in under a week in many Perth suburbs with CoreLogic also reporting property values rose across March.
- by Sarah Brookes