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Emilia Terzon

Share houses make comeback as rental crisis continues and people lease out spare rooms

Melody Kwan and Leo Ng moved back into a share house after the rent on their one-bedroom apartment rose to $600 a week. (ABC News: Daniel Irvine)

The demand for share houses is back to pre-pandemic levels as vacancy rates sit at historic lows, according to data from a flatmates listing service owned by property website REA Group.

But the data also shows that in many key suburbs, moving in with a flatmate is not a cheap alternative to living alone. And there are concerns rent will keep rising this year.

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