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Australia's Housing Supply Crunch FY23/24
Australia is experiencing a chronic supply crunch. This is the FY23/24 edition of our popular supply crunch whitepaper series. In this edition, the InvestorKit research team presents 20 Statistical Area Level 3 (SA3) regions that suffer the most from the supply crunch.
What You Could Learn
A clearer view of the market.
- How has Australia’s housing supply trended as interest rate hiked in the past year
- What caused the current housing supply crunch
- 20 regions’ Supply Shortage Scores, and analysis on their housing supply in both the short and the long term
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National Housing Supply Overview
How Australia's housing supply has trended and the macro factors driving the crunch.
What Caused the Supply Crunch
The structural and policy drivers behind Australia's chronic housing undersupply.
Supply Shortage Methodology
How we score each region's supply risk — established supply, future pipeline, population flow, and availability.
Region Deep Dives
Detailed analysis of each undersupplied region's sales pressure, rental pressure, and price trends.
A closer look
A taste of what this report reveals
20 regions
SA3 regions identified with the most severe supply crunch
50+
Regions where supply is still extremely low — we narrowed to the tightest 20
6 factors
Supply risk, future pipeline, availability, movement, and pressure scores
Many sub-markets’ supply crunch has been relieved due to a shift in some market conditions. However, it’s still not difficult to list 50 regions where the supply level is still extremely low compared to the demand — some even lower than last year.
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