Renting
How Jy got his landlord to repay him $1365
Legal experts think there’s lots of money out there to be claimed and that thousands of Victorian renters could be entitled to refunds.
- by Jim Malo
Latest
Capitals will need millions of homes for 5 million new residents
Sydney and Melbourne alone will need to build at least another 1.3 million homes to accommodate an extra 3 million residents over the next 18 years, a new report finds.
- by Shane Wright
Renters in spotlight under potential real estate industry code of conduct
While detail on the work is limited, Housing Minister Meaghan Scanlon says the government is looking at the issue to align Queensland with other states.
- by Matt Dennien
The once-hot Victorian towns where rents are slowing - or at a discount
The exodus of Melburnians to work remotely in the regions has been losing steam, and the once-booming pace of rent rises followed suit.
- by Melissa Heagney-Bayliss
Opinion
For subscribers
I was shamelessly catfished ... by a rental property
Sydney’s rental crisis is so severe that renters - including me - are lowering their standards and upping their desperation levels.
- by Laura Chung
‘Won’t be solved overnight’: Perth rental warning as vacancy rate drops further
With WA growing faster than other states and very little stock on the market, it is getting harder and harder to find a rental in Perth.
- by Sarah Brookes
There will be no peace without a prosperous Palestine
Readers on the escalating conflict in the Middle East; the Voice vote; and ‘tiny housing’.
Cold air in Natasha’s old home gave her sores. In her new home, she can’t sleep
She was priced out of her suburb and kept getting outbid on properties. Her new place isn’t ideal, but what choice did she have?
- by Jim Malo
How to live in a share house during a rental crisis
How do you find your first flatmates and what’s the best way to interact with your landlord?
- by Jim Malo
Analysis
Housing affordability
Latest rent hikes bring Sydney another step closer to ghetto for the rich
There is now a massive, weekly transfer of wealth from young renters who supply a city with energy, creativity and dynamism to older property-owning classes who don’t.
- by Michael Koziol
Brisbane rents just reached a record high. Is any relief in sight?
Brisbane is now the second most expensive capital in which to rent a unit after the median weekly rent climbed $90 over the past year.
- by Sarah Webb