Property Investors And Property Renters BOTH Being Crushed!

Digital Finance Analytics (DFA) Blog

Mar 12 2026 | 00:25:39

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Show Notes

Our latest surveys highlight that BOTH property renters AND property investors are facing significant challenges, given the low levels of supply, rising costs and regulatory intervention. The truth is the system is broken, as APRA tries to clamp down on highly leveraged loans, even as the growth in investor lending outstrips owner occupied lending, while rental vacancies continue to fall, and rents rise. Its a policy led mess, long in the making, and now the chickens are coming home to roost in the higher for longer interest rate environment. Even so, as we show, not all post codes are behaving […]

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