{"id":484549,"date":"2026-02-16T23:36:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/484549\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T23:36:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T23:36:11","slug":"rising-land-costs-cripple-housing-affordability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/484549\/","title":{"rendered":"Rising land costs cripple housing affordability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2024-25 annual national accounts from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) revealed that the total value of residential land increased by 7.0% over the financial year to a record $8.3 trillion.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Australian-land-values.png\" width=\"660\" height=\"471\" alt=\"Australian land values\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Total residential land values in Australia have risen from 1.1 times GDP in 1989 to 3.0 times GDP in 2024\u201325.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Australian-land-values-index.png\" width=\"660\" height=\"475\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Autralian land values index\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Land now accounts for 75% of Australia\u2019s housing stock, up from 54% in 1990-91.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/Residential-land-as-a-of-dwellings.png\" width=\"660\" height=\"446\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Residential land share\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 2024-25 annual national accounts from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) revealed that the total value of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":484550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[64,63,99,164],"class_list":["post-484549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484549","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=484549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}