{"id":323412,"date":"2025-12-02T19:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/323412\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T19:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T19:59:07","slug":"couple-on-average-income-cannot-afford-home-within-30km-of-cbd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/323412\/","title":{"rendered":"Couple on average income cannot afford home within 30km of CBD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple on an average salary cannot affordably buy a house within 30 kilometres of Sydney\u2019s CBD without additional income, as the city\u2019s median house price \u2013 tipped to hit $1.9 million next year \u2013 rapidly outpaces wage growth.<\/p>\n<p>The affordable opportunities for a couple working full-time with no children on a median combined annual income of $213,000, without the bank of mum and dad or other income to relieve mortgage stress, fall to the west of a rough line running north-south through Sydney, based on data commissioned from Cotality by The Australian Financial Review.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A couple on an average salary cannot affordably buy a house within 30 kilometres of Sydney\u2019s CBD without&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":323413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-323412","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-economy"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/323413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}