New data has revealed the suburbs around Australia that have undergone the biggest median weekly rent increases for houses in the 12 months to April this year.
Less than one per cent of available rental properties across the country are affordable for a person working on a minimum wage, a "shocking" new report has revealed.
39-year-old Alistair Turner has resorted to living in a caravan with his family in his parent's front yard to avoid homelessness, after applying to over 175 rental properties.
The fibro home on David Street in Greenacre is three bedrooms and two bathrooms but it is in urgent need of repair, with the landlord promising to offset spending.
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With rental vacancies across the county dipping to just 1.47 per cent, and conditions showing no sign of slowing down, it's tough out there to be a renter right now.
After 12 months of turbocharged rental increases, a new report has warned that millions of tenants across Australia will endure even more pain this year.
In the suburb where Shane Channing lives, rental prices have increased by 60 per cent over the past five years. He says one more increase will leave him homeless.
People should be able to choose whether or not they want to include a parking space in their rental price, experts say after finding that $6 billion worth of off-road parking was going unused.
Vulnerable Western Australians are being robbed of thousands of dollars while looking for new homes as opportunistic scammers prey on the rental crisis.
An Aussie landlord who has multiple mortgages says his portfolio has become unaffordable after the RBA hiked interest rates for the 10th consecutive time.
With inflation stubbornly high, wage growth stagnate and rental prices on the rise, Australians are feeling the pinch in a way many have never experienced before.
Business NSW crunched the numbers to determine what it costs a single person to rent a unit in the state, and what their yearly salary would need to be to avoid housing stress.