二季度悉尼房价略降但房租飙升

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二季度悉尼房价略降但房租飙升




8月16日《悉尼晨锋报》报道，悉尼房价近来有所下降，但是房屋租金价格却一路上涨，几乎达到顶峰。

上个季度，悉尼房屋价格平均下跌5.7%，但新的数据显示，去年以来，在某些城区，房租的中位价格却飙涨了50%以上。

过去的一年，悉尼内城区房屋售价上涨约1%，然而有些城区价格却下跌了4.2%。

下跌最多的区是Strathfield，达19.3%，而升幅最大的区是North Sydney，达26.4%。

同时，新州政府最近的“租赁及销售报告”显示，Woollahra区的房租上涨已经超过可控制水平，三房别墅的租金上涨了53.8%。

悉尼远郊的房租上涨还不算过分，大约为8.3%。

去年以来，房租的中位价格每周上涨约$25，而内城区租金每周平均上涨$35。

Auburn及Marrickville的一房公寓租金上涨约20%，而Mosman的两房租金上涨约16.6%。

Macquarie银行的高级经济学家Brian Redican说，那些潜在的首次购房者可能会延长租房的时间，这导致目前悉尼房屋空置率仅为1.5%，增加了租房的压力。

内城区房屋需求量不断上涨，租金也随之水涨船高，从去年到现在已经上涨9.6%，每周平均租金超过$400。

新州租赁联盟的Chris Martin说，目前还有一种情形，即房东由于无力支付贷款，房屋可能被银行收回。如果租客这时自愿离开，但房东后来又和银行达成还贷协议，房东就有可能强迫租客支付所谓“抛弃”租屋时的租金。但目前法律对处于这种情形的租客还没有任何保护。



Prices fall, but no joy for renters



August 15, 2007 - 10:54PM  Sydney Morning Herald


HOUSES may be becoming a little more affordable but Sydney rents are going through the roof.

Sydney's average house prices fell 5.7 per cent in the last quarter, and new figures show median rents in some suburbs have risen more than 50 per cent since last year.

In the past year the median sales price increased in the inner-city by 1 per cent, but in the middle suburbs fell 4.2 per cent.

The largest fall was in Strathfield (19.3 per cent), while the largest rise was in North Sydney (26.4 per cent).

Meanwhile the State Government's latest Rent and Sales Report shows rents rising out of control in Woollahra, where rent on a three-bedroom house has jumped 53.8 per cent.

Sydney-wide the picture was not so bad, with a median rise of only 8.3 per cent.

Median rent for all dwellings has risen $25 a week since last year. Inner-city renters have been hit with an average rise of $35.

Rents on one-bedroom flats in Auburn and Marrickville rose by more than 20 per cent, while rent on a two-bedroom Mosman flat rose 16.6 per cent.

Demand for family housing in the Blue Mountains pushed up median rents on two-bedroom houses by 15.8 per cent.

Brian Redican, a senior economist with Macquarie Bank, said potential first-home buyers were renting longer, and investors had decided that the stockmarket offered better returns.

This had led to a record low rental vacancy rate of 1.5 per cent, putting pressure on rents.

Demand for housing continues to grow in the inner city, where the median rent is $400, up 9.6 per cent from last year.

Chris Martin, a policy officer with the NSW Tenants Union, said there was a drop in the number of bonds being lodged, indicating more renters were staying put.

He said more people were being evicted because their landlord could not pay their mortgage and the house was being repossessed. In a cruel twist, a number of tenants in that situation found if they left voluntarily but the landlord later came to an agreement with the bank, the landlord could force them to pay lost rent money for "abandoning" the property. "The law offers no protection to tenants in these circumstances and we are hearing more of it," he said.

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By the end of the decade, 750,000 Australians will be classified as under rental stress.




2010年：半数租房者将以1/3家庭收入付房租




据7月21日澳洲本地媒体报道，澳大利亚的住房危机又出现了不祥的预兆。将近半数澳洲租房者感受到入不敷出的困扰，原因是由于租房市场房源短缺，使得房租大幅度上涨。

由堪培拉大学“国家社会经济模式中心”及建房业协会合力所作的研究预测说，澳大利亚赁屋居住房租高涨引发家庭承受压力的情况将会不断地恶化。建房业协会的全国总执行官斯尔波格说，现在必须采取紧急行动来增加平价出租房屋的供应。

鉴于房租不断地飙升，预计在今后三年中，承受租赁房屋压力的家庭数量会增加二十三万个。他说，这表示将有七十五万个租房居住的家庭将收入的百分之三十或更多的收入用于租赁房屋。这个数字将是全国租房人数的一半。

不管是大城市还是边远地区，租房市场房源短缺的危机遍及全国，其中又以新州和昆士兰这两州的情况最为糟糕。

2006年的统计数字表明，有500,248个家庭面对“租房恐慌症”，占租房总数的35%。




Rental squeeze set to worsen



July 20, 2007 03:08pm  Article from: AAP


HALF of Australian renters will be in financial stress within three years because of rising rents caused by a lack of rental housing supply, new figures show.

The crisis will affect renters across all states and territories and those in regional areas as well as cities, says Chris Lamont of the Housing Industry Association.

Private renting households spending 30 per cent of their income on rent will rise to 730,908 by 2010, according to research by the HIA and the University of Canberra.

The figure is equal to more than 50 per cent of the private rental market.

The 2006 census figures show 500,248 households, or about 35 per cent of the rental market, are already in rental stress.

The forecast was reached by comparing the current rental market with the expected rise in rents as well as expected wage levels over the next few years.

"We've broken the incidences of housing and mortgage stress down by electorate and by region, and the scary thing was that it went right across Australia," Mr Lamont said.

"There was a belief that rent stress and mortgage stress only affected capital cities.

"The reality is, in regional Australia, wages tend to be lower, so the incidence of mortgage and rent stress in some areas was higher than what it was in the cities."

NSW and Queensland were expected to be the hardest hit states because of the lack of rental housing supply in those markets, Mr Lamont said.

He said supply was dwindling because potential investors were being attracted to the high returns available in the share market as well as incentives to invest in superannuation.

Mr Lamont said investors needed a stimulus to return to the housing market, such as a doubling of the depreciation allowance from 2.5 per cent to five per cent for housing valued up to $550,000.

"We need some market stimulus. The market won't simply just bounce back," he said.

If the issue was not addressed, some renters would delay buying property due to the lack of affordability, while others would be locked out of the market completely, Mr Lamont said.

coolyn

这里的政府好像只做统计，不采取相应政策。

flyspirit

Thanks for this information