Perth, the capital of Western Australia, is benefiting from one of the biggest mining bonanzas in Australia's history and housing prices there are set to boom.
Situated nearly as far from Singapore as it is from Sydney, Perth is the fourth-largest city in Australia with a population of 1.7 million. It has the highest population growth rate of all Australian capital cities as a result of the wealth from the mining boom in recent years.
The industrial expansion in China, the world's second-largest economy, is generating a huge demand for high-grade iron ore and Western Australia has more than 90 per cent of Australia's total identified resources, most of it in the north of the state.
Large-scale iron ore mining began in 2004 and, within two years, housing prices in Perth doubled. Since then, rents have been rising steadily as there is still a huge shortage of homes.
Perth's housing shortage is due to a lack of skilled construction workers. Mining companies offer high wages to entice builders, carpenters and other construction tradesmen away from Perth to move to Western Australia's northern mining towns and ports. As a result, not enough are left behind to build new dwellings that the city's rapidly growing population needs.
The people of Perth receive other benefits to compensate for the housing shortage - the royalties from iron ore exports flow through the entire community and make Perth the most affluent city in Australia.
Average incomes are the highest in the country and many of the international mining companies have offices in Perth which provide excellent employment prospects. Perth, the administrative centre for an area that covers nearly one third of the continent, has consistently achieved an unemployment rate lower than other Australian capital cities.
Rents in the mining boom towns and ports in the north are becoming prohibitive. No mining company wants to pay rental subsidies that can cost over a thousand dollars per employee weekly, so they construct temporary camps near their mines and fly the workers in and out at rostered changeovers.
The mining families live in Perth while the companies subsidise their rent and pay the costs of flying workers to and from the mining towns and ports in the north. This practice is growing rapidly and rents have been rapidly rising in many of Perth's inner suburban areas as a result.
There are many reasons why Singaporeans should consider investing in Perth's housing market.
First, Australian housing prices had demonstrated resilience during the global credit crisis, surviving the sub-prime market crash without any fall in prices. Overall prices are now higher than they were before 2008. Second, Perth's housing shortage is becoming worse, leading to high price growth and rent increases of more than 10 per cent in the last year.
Third, the types of accommodation most sought after by renters in Perth are precisely those most suited to Singapore investors - new and off-the-plan units in desirable suburbs located near the airport, along the transport corridor to the CBD, along the Swan River and near the popular entertainment precincts of Perth.
Perth has the brightest future among the capital cities in Australia and property investors stand to reap the benefits.
It's good to have you back BP. Is this a sales pitch at Singaporeans? A few inaccuracies in that article. It says the housing shortage is due to a shortage of construction workers resulting in not enough houses being built. I'm pretty sure it's because most people can't afford to buy the new homes on offer.
The cash is there for a boom. we have full employment and increasing wages. Fear is whats stopping it. I'm prepared to put my cock on a block and say prices will shoot up 10% next year, this year will be stagnant.
*edit - i'd just like to qualify that i meant PERTH prices. the rest of you are screwed!
The cash is there for a boom. we have full employment and increasing wages. Fear is whats stopping it. I'm prepared to put my cock on a block and say prices will shoot up 10% next year, this year will be stagnant.
*edit - i'd just like to qualify that i meant PERTH prices. the rest of you are screwed!
Lots of talk on streets about a Perth boom, that alone will tempt civilians to purchase!
Things are really starting to heat up in perth, everyone is talking about house price rises, the rental crisis. Go to some home opens, and see the competition now for houses under $600,000. Bidding wars have started up again, sales are up 40-50% so far this year. Housing stock levels are declining quickly over the last month, rents are up 17% this year at least and that was to april.
The interest rate cuts which are meant to prop up the eastern states is like throwing petrol onto a fire over here. We dont need the cuts and it is going to fuel a real estate boom in Perth. If the RBA drops rates again in June or July, its going to go crazy here.
The cash is there for a boom. we have full employment and increasing wages. Fear is whats stopping it. I'm prepared to put my cock on a block and say prices will shoot up 10% next year, this year will be stagnant.
*edit - i'd just like to qualify that i meant PERTH prices. the rest of you are screwed!
You have called me a fool before. Your comment cleary explains you owe to much money somewhere in WA. Hope you wont be needing that Timmy
What is also clear is that Mike owes more money on WA property than you do , so you will always know that there will be others worse off than yourself.
Lots of talk on streets about a Perth boom, that alone will tempt civilians to purchase!
Things are really starting to heat up in perth, everyone is talking about house price rises, the rental crisis. Go to some home opens, and see the competition now for houses under $600,000. Bidding wars have started up again, sales are up 40-50% so far this year. Housing stock levels are declining quickly over the last month, rents are up 17% this year at least and that was to april.
The interest rate cuts which are meant to prop up the eastern states is like throwing petrol onto a fire over here. We dont need the cuts and it is going to fuel a real estate boom in Perth. If the RBA drops rates again in June or July, its going to go crazy here.
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