Virtually every week brings news of rising rents or a story of still more renters forced out of their homes by unmanageable rent increases.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics says rents climbed 6.6% in the year to October.
If you’re signing a new rent agreement the situation is worse, with landlords charging on average 8.6% more than they did a year ago, and far more – about 15% more than a year ago – in the hotpots of Sydney and Melbourne.
