Research commissioned by The West Australian shows how much extra those with the average-sized variable loan of $433,000 have paid in interest since the first rate hike in May 2022.
Kim Macdonald
Eric Hartanto has sold more than $1 billion worth of homes in his career, so he knew where to get bang for his buck when he recently bought his own family home.
The biggest coastal landholding in Perth and its mansion has hit the market with a price tag set to smash the City Beach record.
Perth is now Australia’s least affordable rental market, surpassing Sydney, and it also has the poorest housing standards.
One in five Australians living in outer-metropolitan suburbs suffers inadequate access to schools, healthcare and other amenities and basic infrastructure, according to a new report.
Nicola Smith
New research from ANZ-CoreLogic shows that a median wage earner would have to spend eight times their income to purchase a property.
Jackson Hewett
Constraints on huge swathes of Perth’s land supply is preventing the development of 60,000 houses, according to a new report by the Urban Development Institute of Australia (WA)
A housing estate on the suburban fringe and an inner city apartment complex are targeting the same demographic of buyers, in a move that highlights changing community attitudes
Kim Macdonald and Justin Bianchini
Bunbury, Funbury, Bunvegas. Whatever you call it, increasing numbers want to call it home, as the town becomes the biggest house price hotspot over the September quarter.
Nearly 2000 square metres of land has been transferred to a Wheatbelt government for half price to support the town's housing demands.
Hannah Whitehead
Flying cars, four-day work weeks, 3D printed homes, school lessons in the metaverse and a shift away from WA’s mining-based economy. Welcome to Perth in 2050.
Alys McDonough was struggling so hard to keep up with her Sydney rent, she gave up and moved to Norseman.
Chris Reason, 7NEWS Chief Reporter
With wedding costs and property prices continuing to soar every year, many couples are finding they have to choose one or the other because they just can’t afford both.
Chris Foster-Ramsay
A 40-year-old home in the northern suburbs has sold for $1 million, the highest price ever achieved in a suburb known for its affordability.
West Aussies are holidaying on the cheap across the globe via house swaps, with families also switching cars and even social circles.
Labor’s Housing Minister John Carey and Cottesloe Liberal candidate Sandra Brewer have gone from allies to enemies on the issue of development.
Jake Dietsch
East coast investors are turning away from Perth, causing the market to slow. Here’s what experts say will likely come next.
One of Australia’s biggest financial institutions has reduced home loan interest rates, but there’s just one catch for potential customers.
Cameron Micallef
Perth had its best October for new property listings in a decade, with new homes on the market increasing by nearly a third.
Figures to make Baby Boomers shudder at what their grandkids face in today’s red-hot property market have finally been revealed.
John Flint & Cameron Micallef
There are positive signs for renters as two areas emerge from the depths of crisis to simply being in a tight market. But a senior economist says the rental shortage is expected to last years.
The building sector could not function without its many smart, hardworking women. Here are some of the exceptional ones recognised in an awards ceremony by the Housing Industry Association.
A WA developer has failed in its bid to fight a requirement for affordable housing in its nine-storey complex in Subiaco, with a DAP saying it would have set an ‘undesirable precedent’.
Justin Bianchini and Kim Macdonald
Scarborough’s fortunes are on the rise, with a recent apartment sale by former Liberal leader Liza Harvey showing the growing popularity of her hometown.
