Rental growth strong again in November

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CoreLogic has released rental data for November, with rental growth continuing at its strongest pace since 2008:

The trend in rental growth has held reasonably firm since April, with the monthly change in national rents holding between 0.6% and 0.7%, well above the decade average monthly movement of 0.2%.

Every capital city and rest-of-state region recorded a rise in dwelling rents over the month, with house rents generally continuing to record a faster rate of growth than units. Melbourne is one of the few exceptions, where unit rents have risen at a faster pace than house rents over four of the past five months.

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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.