Australian Property Market 2025

A Market at the Crossroads

Australia’s housing market has sprung back to life, fuelled by cautious interest rate cuts and a palpable surge of buyer confidence. Yet beneath the headlines of soaring auction clearance rates lies a deeper narrative: an affordability crisis that tightens by the week and a widening generational wealth gulf that makes home ownership look like a privileged dream, not an achievable milestone.

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Many households now allocate more than 40% of their income to mortgage repayments. For dual-income families, this number hardly budges if rental markets nearby are tight or if parents have looming education costs. The situation has favoured an ever-narrowing window of buyers: those with inherited equity, a cushioned savings buffer, or recent exits from a booming foreign investment round in the tech sector.

Borrowing Power Returns, But the Deposit Mountain Grows

The slight easing of rates has momentarily expanded borrowing capacity, yet the deposit hurdle keeps Everest proportions. Sydney’s median dwelling price now devours roughly eight times the average household income. Worse, the data reveals a harsh reality: the 20 per cent government stamp on a Sydney starter home now demands 13 years of relentless savings, a steep climb from the nine years required in 2004, and from 10.6 post-COVID. The first-rung dream stands less of a rung than a chasm.

The Disappearing Starter Home

Once prized Starter homes or cosmetic fixer-uppers within 10 kilometres of the central business district are slipping from the market like ice in sunlight. Developers, encouraged by appetite from upgraders, now build largely for the high end, and the modest stock that is leftover has either been leased to investors or torn down to make way for McMansions. Experts now point to a redistribution of true affordability, with stock shifting to older, flavour-of-the-week fringe suburbs like the outer reaches of Brisbane or the well-publicised older apartments in the city’s periphery. Recent ABS and KPMG modelling underscore the acceleration of this new geographic suburban fringe reality.

Generation Squeezed: The Data Behind the Divide

The data is growing starker by the month. Today, just 43% of 25- to 34-year-olds owned homes, a decline from 58% just two decades ago, translating to hundreds of thousands of futures where employment stability no longer guarantees the sanctuary that a mortgage once promised.

Millennial owners who secured property a decade ago recorded a staggering 169% rise in wealth through real estate, in sharp contrast to Gen Z and younger millennials who face near-impossible entry hurdles.

Buyers' agents in Australia should also be thinking ahead to their next move at this stage. But proper guidance is important, since markets are continually evolving across different regions.

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