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The housing squeeze is hitting places people still aren’t watching

Australian Property Review··7 May 2026·7 min

About this episode

Everyone talks about housing pressure like it’s one clean story. It’s not. In this episode, Ryan and Maedeh unpack how the squeeze is spreading through first-home buyers, stressed suburbs, borrowers, renters, investors and even the kind of homes Australians keep trying to buy. They get into: why the hard part for some first-home buyers starts after settlement why borrowers are running out of easy moves why suburb-level stress matters more than broad headlines why hitting landlords doesn’t automatically help renters and why regional markets are getting harder to ignore Read more at Australian Property Review: https://www.apreview.com.au/ Subscribe to the newsletter: https://newsletter.apreview.com.au/ Follow the podcast and share this episode with someone who’d find it useful.