Inner Sydney rental vacancy rate rise
Tighter vacancy rate in middle, outer suburbs reveals need to boost density outside the inner city.
Tighter vacancy rate in middle, outer suburbs reveals need to boost density outside the inner city.
Record household debt and the most expensive house prices in history mean Aussie families will enter their twilight years with more debt than ever, and their super may be woefully inadequate.
Adelaide-based developer Greaton is dabbling in townhouses.
Most people in their mid twenties are wondering how they can ever afford to move from being renters to buyers. Or whether they should just decide it's all too hard.
NAB has cut its growth forecasts for both houses and units this year on the back of sharply deteriorating sentiment about the property market.
"There is a limit to how many tricks we can do," Harry Triguboff says.
Two RBA rate rises is all it would take for property investors to quit the Sydney market, according to research firm Riskwise.
Property insiders predict real estate growth will halve in the next year as more evidence emerges of a cooling market.
Dwellings for sale are up sharply on last year, suggesting buyers are trying to get in and sell before an expected slowdown.
Scentre Group''s Westfield buys town centre in Melbourne's newest suburb, Mt Atkinson.
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