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‘Small price to pay’: the young homeowners welcoming falling house prices even as it hurts them

Some buyers say they are ready to absorb the fallout of housing weakness if it means boosting home ownership across the board

The Guardian - AU

The number of new mortgages in Australia are dropping, but not in the ACT

Australians are buying fewer and cheaper houses, new data shows.

The Canberra Times

Australia’s mortgage burden is now above 1989 levels – when interest rates were 17%

KPMG analysis rebuts claims older generations had it harder when it came to buying and paying off a home

The Guardian - AU

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Australian net overseas migration falls to lowest level since 2022 – but the Coalition says that’s still too high

Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show migration growth is above pre-pandemic levels but tracking steadily down

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Reality bites: gen X are poorer, less likely to own a home and are now turning towards One Nation

Australians in their 40s and 50s are struggling with low wages growth, rising inequality and falling rates of home ownership – and many are feeling left behind

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Gen Xers the new baby boomers: analysis identifies Australia’s richest landholders by generation

Those born between 1965 and 1980 own an average of $1.455m in housing and land, KPMG report finds

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Those angry about migration figures are ignoring what happened in Australia during Covid and other key facts

But the lack of a well-reasoned migration plan from Labor is not helping at a time when extremist views are flourishing

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Birthrate falls in Australia’s biggest cities amid cost-of-living crisis, preliminary data shows

Outer-suburban and regional Australians increasingly likely to have more children per person than inner-city residents, report shows

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How Young Aussies’ Living Habits Have Changed In 25 Years, By The Numbers

Soaring house prices have reshaped how we live, think more adults living with our folks, and lots of us playing musical chairs with rentals.

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Five ways Australians’ spending, housing and dating habits have changed over the last 25 years

New lifestyle data shows how young people are living with their parents for longer and have fewer partners – while older generations are splurging

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New home construction slumps to near 40-year low in Australia as renovation spending booms

‘This indicates that there is not enough money and resources being attracted to expanding the housing stock,’ urban economist says

The Guardian - AU

Victorian government to rezone affluent areas in bid to attract ‘locked out’ young people to 50 suburbs

Planning overhaul will clear way for buildings of up to 20 storeys near stations including Brighton and Toorak in a move likely to draw strong opposition

The Guardian - AU

Canberra's decline in young children in 'prime residential areas': report

But analysis also shows Canberra has bucked a national trend.

The Canberra Times

Canberra suburbs with the most and fewest babies

Canberrans are bucking national baby trend, data reveals.

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Baby drought as house prices push parents out of cities

Australians are having less babies and the fertility plunge is being blamed on high housing costs with analysis showing parents are being pushed to the fringes.

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Almost 40,000 homes across Australia waiting to be built as interest rates and building costs hit developers

KPMG analysis reveals 15,593 dwellings in NSW and 7,897 in Victoria are yet to break ground despite planning approval amid higher cost of materials and finance

The Canberra Times

Housing supply threatens ACT's projected jobs boom, expert says

There will be 35,000 new jobs in the next five years: report

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‘It makes no sense’: Victorian government urged to reconsider sale of dozens of properties

Residential land acquired for level-crossing removals in Melbourne’s south-east being prepared for sale

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Thousands of approved housing projects on hold in Australia as construction costs soar

Apartments and townhouses hardest hit as developers opt for detached home builds that offer ‘much less uncertainty’

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Why the great unretirement movement has been on the rise in Australia in the past three years

Many Australian retirees are returning to the workforce these days. For some, it's out of necessity; for others, it's for more philosophical reasons.

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Future of Brisbane inner-city schools in doubt as population pressure ramps up

Brisbane residents facing a population surge want answers two years after plans were announced to build a new primary school and to redevelop the Gabba, which could threaten an existing school.

The Guardian - AU

Can woolgrowers ride an activewear boom out of the industry’s pandemic bust?

As locked-down white-collar workers swapped office wear for tracksuits, wool prices took a tumble

The Guardian - AU

Experts doubt NSW’s $500 after-school care vouchers will get parents back into offices

Dominic Perrottett says scheme will help parents with ‘daily juggle’ but KPMG’s Terry Rawnsley says pandemic behaviours are ‘entrenched’

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