Swift Rise in Rents Fuelled by Supply Crisis

While housing value growth has slowed, rents continue to rise swiftly. Nationally, CoreLogic’s Hedonic Rental Index increased 1.0% in May, taking the quarterly rate of growth to 3.0%, up 60 basis points on a year ago. The annual change in rents is now tracking at 8.8% across the combined capital cities and 10.8% across the combined regions. Unit...