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Matthew Elmas

‘Unprecedented’: Housing crisis gets even worse as affordability plunges

Mortgages are becoming less affordable and rents are rising fast, new research shows. Photo: TND

Australia’s housing crisis has become even worse as soaring rents and near-record low vacancy rates combine with higher interest rates to squeeze millions of people who don’t own property.

That’s the latest from the Real Estate Institute of Australia, which has tracked further declines in affordability for would-be buyers and renters over the June quarter, despite recent falls in national property prices.

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