Airteam research
Data-driven research and analysis that brings clarity to the trends reshaping how Australians live, work and engage with technology.
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Sydney’s housing market has moved beyond pockets of stress into a city-wide affordability failure, with population growth accelerating price pressure and eliminating any remaining geographic escape.
More than half of Sydney’s analysed regions are classified as impossibly unaffordable, up from 39% just five years ago, marking a rapid structural shift, not a gradual decline.
Nearly three-quarters of Sydney regions became more unaffordable over the past five years, spreading affordability pressure far beyond the inner city and coastal zones.
Across all 301 regions analysed, not a single area now meets standard affordability benchmarks, including outer-growth and fringe suburbs traditionally seen as entry points.
In fast-growth suburbs like Box Hill, population increased fourteen-fold while affordability deteriorated sharply, illustrating how outward migration is amplifying, not relieving, price pressure.
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Findings from Airteam’s research have been reported and referenced by national and regional media outlets across Australia.
