Immigration collapse bogs Sydney and Melbourne rents
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CoreLogic’s April housing market update shows that Australia’s rental market remains two-speed, with the smaller capital city markets recording strong rental growth, while Sydney and Melbourne flounder.
As shown in the next chart, Darwin and Perth’s rental markets are booming, catching up on years of falls leading up to COVID. Across both houses and apartments rents have risen at a record annual pace of between 13% and 20%.
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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.
