RENT CHARGES – AUSTRALIA

Gurner warns tenants of 15-year rental crisis

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Original article by Sarah Petty
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 9 : 14-May-25

Data from Cotalitys shows that housing market rents have increased by 39.9 per cent since March 2019. Rent payments now account for about one-third of many tenants’ income. Apartment developer Tim Gurner has warned that the nation’s rental crisis is likely to last for up to 15 years, due to the lack of sufficient new housing supply. He notes that vacancy rates are about one per cent in every state, while construction supply is at a 10-year low and population growth is at record levels. Gurner adds that high construction costs are the biggest problem for property developers.

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Middle-income Australians experiencing rental stress with a third of pay spent on housing, report shows

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Original article by Cait Kelly
The Guardian Australia – Page: Online : 15-Jan-25

Data from Corelogic shows that housing rents increased by just 4.8 per cent nationally in calendar 2024, compared with 8.3 per cent in the previous 12 months. However, CoreLogic economist Kaytlin Ezzy says that households on the median income were still spending 33 per cent of their pre-tax income on rent charges in September 2024. CoreLogic’s figures also show that rents have increased by 36.1 per cent nationally since the start of the pandemic. Maiy Azize from the Everybody’s Home campaign has called for rent increases to be capped and more government investment in public housing.

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First-timers, low earners in housing crunch

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Original article by Nila Sweeney
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 31 : 17-Apr-24

A report from the ANZ Bank shows that the average proportion of income that is needed to service a new mortgage rose to 48.9 per cent nationwide in the March quarter; this compares with 43.1 per cent during the same period in 2023. The ANZ Housing Affordability report also reveals that it now takes an average of 10.3 years to save enough money for a house deposit. Meanwhile, ANZ found that the average renter must now allocate 32.2 per cent of their income to rent; this rises to 54.3 per cent for low-income earners.

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Rental affordability worsens as housing supply dwindles

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Original article by Nila Sweeney
The Australian Financial Review – Page: Online : 23-Jun-21

Suburbtrends has reported that 51 per cent of the 2,809 house markets it assessed require families to spend more than 30 per cent of their household income on rent, due to dwindling rental supply. It further found that there are 164 suburbs where families have to spend over 50 per cent of their household income to pay the rent on an average three-bedroom house. Suburbtrends director Kent Lardner says regions have been hit the hardest by rental shortages, while SQM Research MD Louis Christopher agrees rental supply is a big challenge for the regions.

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Minimum wage nowhere near keeping pace with rents

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Original article by Killian Plastow
The New Daily – Page: Online : 4-Jun-19

The Fair Work Commission cited a fall in inflation, which is measured by the Consumer Price Index, as the reason for a smaller increase in the minimum wage in 2019 than in 2018. Anglicare executive director Kasy Chambers notes that the CPI is based on a ‘basket of goods’ that does not include rent or housing costs. She says the CPI has only increased by 63 per cent since 1998, while housing costs have risen by 300 per cent over the same period. Australian Bureau of Statistics chief economist Bruce Hockman notes that there are other data sets that examine the sort of housing costs that Anglicare is referring to, but that the CPI was not intended to measure them.

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Don’t worry if house prices fall, says Bowen

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Original article by Turi Condon, Ben Packham, Greg Brown
The Australian – Page: 1 & 6 : 16-May-19

Property Council of Australia president Stephen Conry says the housing market is "fragile", and it is not the right time for Labor’s proposed changes to the negative gearing regime. Real Estate Institute of Australia president Adrian Kelly warns that the prices of existing properties will fall if Labor implements its reforms, while the Housing Industry Association’s chief economist Tim Reardon says housing rents will rise. Meanwhile, shadow treasurer Chris Bowen has downplayed concerns that homeowners may find themselves in negative equity, arguing that they will only incur a loss if they sell.

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Flat incomes, cost of living take harsh toll

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Original article by Michael Bleby
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 31 : 5-Feb-18

ME Bank’s latest survey of mortgage holders has found that 46 per cent are spending at least 30 per cent of their disposable income on meeting loan repayments. Although the percentage was slightly down on its previous survey in June 2017, ME Bank noted increased mortgage stress among lower-income households due to greater living costs and little or no increase in wages. ME Bank also found that the percentage of renters who are paying 30 per cent or more of their disposable income on rent payments has increased from 69 per cent to 72 per cent.

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Sydney unit rents on par with houses as affordability bites

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Original article by Michael Bleby
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 3 : 20-Jul-17

Data from Domain Group shows that the median weekly rent for apartments in Sydney rose by 4.8 per cent in the year to June 2017. The median weekly rent for detached houses increased by 3.8 per cent. Meanwhile, the median weekly rent for apartments and houses in Melbourne increased by 5.3 per cent and five per cent respectively. The figures also show that the median house price in Sydney rose by 1.6 per cent to a new high of $A1,178,417 in the June quarter, while the median price in Melbourne rose 3.5 per cent to $A865,712.

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Gearing proposal won’t hit renters

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Original article by Michael Bleby
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 36 : 23-Jun-16

Research suggests that the Australian Labor Party’s proposal to impose restrictions on negative gearing would have limited impact on rents. A study conducted by SQM Research suggests that rents would remain largely unchanged for the next few years, due to extra supply. SQM Research MD Louis Christopher calculated that the proposed policy would result in a rise of 1.2 percentage points in average rental yields. An adjustment of either rents rising or prices falling would happen only after four years of the new rules being in operation.

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Rental growth slows to 20-year low

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Original article by Michael Bleby
The Australian Financial Review – Page: 4 : 11-Sep-15

CoreLogic RP Data has reported that growth in asking rents for residential properties across Australia fell by 0.4 per cent overall in August 2014, compared with a 0.3 per cent fall in July. Growth in asking rents eased to 0.7 per cent year-on-year. Sydney was the only capital city to record a rise in asking rents during August. Cameron Kusher of CoreLogic RP Data cites factors such as slowing population growth and continued strong construction activity.

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