Interview: The international student renting crisis
Big-budget rentals with unfair contracts; high-density living that creates social isolation. These are some of the challenges international student renters face in the midst…
Interview: The international student renting crisis
Big-budget rentals with unfair contracts; high-density living that creates social isolation. These are some of the challenges international student renters face in the midst…
Ownership answers for ‘Generation Rent’
While it is easy to claim young Australians are locked out of the property market because policy initiatives favouring investors have driven up prices in desirable areas, could there be another cause? Yasmine Lomax reports.
No chance for first home buyers in Kooyong
Investment properties, exorbitant house prices and misleading information from agents is making it hard for first home buyers to buy property in Kooyong, write Steven Blacker and Dylan Piscioneri.
A new Aussie dream
Rising house prices and population pressures on supply raises the prospect that instead of buyng a home young Australians will rent an apartment all their lives. Donal Sheil reports.
Agents under-quote the young, says agent
Young buyers are struggling to negotiate house prices amid claims many are victims of misleading prices listed by real estate agents. Jessica Baum reports.
Determined dreamers
A survey of young Australians has highlighted a crisis in the Melbourne’s rental market. Two-thirds of respondents had experienced difficulties in finding somewhere to rent.
The unavailability of suitable housing, and its affordability, top the list of concerns for the 202 men and women who responded to the survey by Swinburne University journalism students.
Other prominent grievances include accusations that real estate agents and landlords discriminate against the young. The Standard news team reports.
High rent’s a home wrecker for young marrieds
The cost of renting a home is keeping a young married couple apart. Khalid Farah reports.
More Melbournians seek sustainable housing
Despite the Federal Government cutting sustainable housing initiatives, the last decade has seen an increase in the amount of people seeking sustainable housing in Melbourne, as Michaela Hickey reports.
Renters liking Facebook house hunt networks
Young renters are using social media to find the right housemates. Tarnay Sass reports.