{"id":503819,"date":"2026-02-25T20:23:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:23:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/503819\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T20:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T20:23:14","slug":"australias-rental-squeeze-eases-but-remains-tight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/503819\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia\u2019s rental squeeze eases but remains tight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Capital city markets led the shift.\u00a0Vacancy in capital city areas rose to 1.51% over January, slightly above the regional rate of 1.40%.\u00a0Among the capitals,\u00a0Hobart recorded the largest monthly jump in vacancy, up 0.36 percentage points, yet remains the tightest market at just 0.72%.\u00a0Perth and Brisbane followed as the next-tightest markets, with vacancies at 1.11% and 1.13%, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Capital city markets led the shift.\u00a0Vacancy in capital city areas rose to 1.51% over January, slightly above the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503820,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,44],"class_list":["post-503819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503819","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=503819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503819\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503820"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}