{"id":447591,"date":"2026-01-30T15:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/447591\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T15:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T15:26:09","slug":"housing-shortages-to-drive-prices-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/447591\/","title":{"rendered":"Housing shortages to drive prices higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kpmg.com\/au\/en\/insights\/economics-geopolitics\/residential-property-market-outlook.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">KPMG\u2019s January 2026 outlook<\/a> paints a picture of broad\u2011based, shortage\u2011driven price growth, with affordable suburbs and unit markets outperforming, and Melbourne, Brisbane, and Perth emerging as standout markets.<\/p>\n<p>Despite affordability challenges, Australia\u2019s housing market is expected to remain tight, competitive, and upward\u2011trending through 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Last year recorded stronger\u2011than\u2011expected growth, with national house prices rising by 8.6% in 2025 and national unit prices rising by 7.3%.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KPMG\u2019s January 2026 outlook paints a picture of broad\u2011based, shortage\u2011driven price growth, with affordable suburbs and unit markets&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":{"0":"post-447591","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\/447591","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=447591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}