What the top 10 suburbs of 2025 reveal about Australia’s affordability crunch
Australia’s strongest property markets in 2025 delivered eye-watering gains, but the surge in lower-priced suburbs has pushed home ownership further out of reach for average-income households.
It takes up around six years just to save for the average Aussie home deposit on a median household income. (Image source: Craig Francis)
National property prices continued their inexorable rise in 2025, almost tripling the rate of inflation as they were poised to rise by more than 8 per cent for the year.
It represented a dire outcome for those not already benefiting from property ownership, a situation exacerbated by rents that also kept rising.
In parts of Sydney, those rent hikes were epic in scale, including Kareela
where prices soared by 17.8 per cent and Como and Oyster Ba…
