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The New Daily
Matthew Elmas

‘Not necessarily good news’: Property plunge no panacea for housing affordability crisis

Anyone hoping falling house prices will improve affordability is going to be disappointed, new research suggests. Photo: TND

Hopeful home buyers have been warned that falling property prices won’t improve housing affordability, despite the average time taken to save a deposit blowing out to more than 11 years during COVID.

New data reveals that many households have gone backwards in their efforts to overcome the property deposit hurdle in the two years to March, with soaring house prices far outpacing income growth. 

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