“the Victorian government introduced extra land tax for investors, amounting to about $1,300 a year for a property worth $650,000. A levy on platforms such as Airbnb and expanded taxes on vacant properties and land came soon after.”
Along with strong and consistent new construction are cited as the drivers behind this but the catalyst has been remote work and the COVID lockdowns.
Victoria’s lockdowns were particularly onerous and many Melbournites realised they could move to south east QLD and pocket the potentially massive difference between the QLD and VIC properties, while still earning capital city $$$ and having better weather.
Melbourne will surge again eventually as their government takes a long view on infrastructure while QLD is adversarial to public utilities.
Just left from a month work there, and what I heard is that everybody is moving from Melbourne to Mildura, because more affordable, more work, and less needles in the parks and beaches.
I recently returned to Melbourne after being away for 5 years. They've been building a lot, particularly in the Western suburbs, and in satellite towns. Also there are a lot more people working remote / hybrid and living farther out in the country. A house in a smaller city like Bendigo is $400+ a week. But I expect this has been driving prices in Melbourne down -- but I'd hardly call it 'affordable' at ~$500 a week for a small house.
You don't need to argue it out with HN, if you want to negotiate landlords generally are happy to at least consider it. I've paid rent as an annual lump sum before.
Makes more sense since most live week-by-week. Similar to how AM/PM notation makes more sense since it's how we tell time. US date format is harder to defend, but...
“the Victorian government introduced extra land tax for investors, amounting to about $1,300 a year for a property worth $650,000. A levy on platforms such as Airbnb and expanded taxes on vacant properties and land came soon after.”
Along with strong and consistent new construction are cited as the drivers behind this but the catalyst has been remote work and the COVID lockdowns.
Victoria’s lockdowns were particularly onerous and many Melbournites realised they could move to south east QLD and pocket the potentially massive difference between the QLD and VIC properties, while still earning capital city $$$ and having better weather.
Melbourne will surge again eventually as their government takes a long view on infrastructure while QLD is adversarial to public utilities.
Have you seen an analysis of the relative impact of the taxes versus allowing growth versus external factors?
Just left from a month work there, and what I heard is that everybody is moving from Melbourne to Mildura, because more affordable, more work, and less needles in the parks and beaches.
I recently returned to Melbourne after being away for 5 years. They've been building a lot, particularly in the Western suburbs, and in satellite towns. Also there are a lot more people working remote / hybrid and living farther out in the country. A house in a smaller city like Bendigo is $400+ a week. But I expect this has been driving prices in Melbourne down -- but I'd hardly call it 'affordable' at ~$500 a week for a small house.
Competition at the $500 per week range is intense, because there are many people who can't afford more than that.
Off topic but: seeing rent measured per week is so very strange (to me; and I suspect to most Europeans and US/Canadians).
Landlords earn more that way, because months are 28,30,31 days but weeks are constant 52/year, even in leap years.
It's not uncommon in NZ/Aus to be paid weekly and pay rent weekly. I find monthly rent to be just as strange!
Somebody needs to teach NZ/Aus the concept of the float.
I worked somewhere they moved payday by 1d explicitly for financial reasons ...
Let's split the difference and go bi-weekly. Or bi-monthly. Or some other arbitrary period we can define "ambiguously".
You don't need to argue it out with HN, if you want to negotiate landlords generally are happy to at least consider it. I've paid rent as an annual lump sum before.
Olympic swimming pools of rent.
That sounds like a lot. Like, Uncle Scrooge amounts.
Makes more sense since most live week-by-week. Similar to how AM/PM notation makes more sense since it's how we tell time. US date format is harder to defend, but...