Brisbane is now the second most expensive city to buy a house, leapfrogging the nation's capital Canberra to sit behind Sydney for the first time since 1997.
The ever-increasing cost of housing is one of the big challenges facing young people but their future is not bleak, the Treasury secretary says.
High housing prices and cost-of-living pressures are driving an exodus from cities, data reveals, with one capital losing residents to the regions in droves.
CoreLogic has revealed regional house values and rents have sky-rocketed to all-time highs, with Western Australia experiencing the biggest jump.
Rental reforms have passed Queensland parliament but a peak body fears it might not deliver necessary relief.
Queenslanders are spending the first decade of their mortgages paying taxes as the government reaped $3.5 billion more than forecast, research suggests.
A small lift in vacancy rates offers a ray of sunlight for renters as challenges in the housing market become a sharper focus for the major political parties.
The federal government has announced $11.3 billion to fast-track the delivery of new homes but faced criticism for not extending further support to renters.
Landlords are charging more on the fringes of capital cities as migration meets a shortfall in new housing, driving rents up even further.
A judge has dismissed class action by Melbourne public housing tower residents against the Victorian government, but will allow them to reframe their case.
Housing affordability has worsened in Australia and could be set to deteriorate further but there is no easy fix on the horizon.
A poll shows almost half of all migrants and refugees feel they are copping the brunt of Australia's housing affordability crisis.
Rentals are in short supply and prices are rising fast but there's more to the story than international students, the Student Accommodation Council says.
A decision to use an empty $400 million quarantine facility for police training has been described as a "bitter blow" in the fight against homelessness.
Queensland renters could have saved $5400 in the past two years if the government had established a cap amid soaring prices and low vacancies.
Crushing rent increases are becoming the new normal with lower-income earners and people on welfare priced out of the market, Anglicare Australia has warned.
Tax reform, building more public housing, and lifting social support payments have all been floated as pieces of the housing affordability puzzle.
Homes purposefully built for renting long term could help boost rental supply in the future but the emerging model is no silver bullet nor a short term fix.
The most significant measure to solve Australia's housing crisis won't be achieved, builders predict amid workforce shortages.
Only one jurisdiction is forecast to achieve its share of a five-year national housing plan, but one premier has defended the goal over "mushy" targets.
Overseas buyers could face higher state taxes to buy property in NSW as the government looks for ways to free up homes for local residents.
Growing confidence that interest rates are going no higher and cuts may start later this year could improve consumer sentiment and home-buying activity.
If homebuyers use super to put down a deposit, median house prices will increase across the nation and young people will be no better off, modelling reveals.
A radical plan to fix the housing crisis by competing with the private market has been dismissed despite being borne out in several developed nations.
Victorian taxpayers will again come to the rescue of customers who lost their home deposit after the builder went belly up.
Property prices in Perth, Adelaide and Brisbane still grew the fastest in January but Melbourne and Sydney also had a more convincing month.
A shared equity scheme allowing first homebuyers to buy a property with a two per cent deposit has passed the House of Representatives.
Opponents of a homebuyer scheme that would split upfront costs with the government are being urged to back the plan to help more people buy their first house.
Higher interest rates are a double-edged sword for wannabe home buyers - shortening the time to save for a deposit but pushing up mortgage repayments.
BlueScope Steel expects local housing starts to recover and strong demand in the United States for infrastructure, including steel-intensive renewable energy.
More than 2000 homes will go under the hammer on Saturday, a 13 per cent surge from the same weekend in 2023.
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