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<br>The [generation born](https://dev.worldluxuryhousesitting.com) after the war were hit with huge 18 percent interest rates back in the late 1980s.<br> |
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<br>Those repayments were crippling, when they were coming of age in the seventies and eighties, however homes were significantly less expensive compared to normal earnings.<br> |
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<br>That was likewise back when Australia's population was almost half of what it is today, long before yearly migration levels soared.<br> |
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<br>Baby boomer economic expert Saul Eslake bought his very first home in Melbourne's St Kilda East for $105,000 in 1984 on a $35,000 income when he was 26, after gaining from complimentary university education.<br> |
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<br>With an $80,000 mortgage, he was borrowing little more than double his pay before tax and hits out at any idea his boomer generation did it tougher - despite the high interest rates he paid.<br> |
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<br>'I paid eighteen-and-a-half percent for some of that but my very first house expense $105,000 and it took me less than 3 years to save up the deposit,' he told Daily Mail Australia.<br> |
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<br>'Although interest rates are less than half what I was paying, it was nowhere near as tough as now and I didn't have HECS financial obligation to pay off due to the fact that I belonged to that fortunate generation when it was totally free.<br> |
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<br>The generation born after the war were struck with enormous 18 per cent rate of interest back in the late 1980s (imagined is Terrigal on the NSW Central Coast)<br> |
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<br>'My generation had it pretty simple - we [secured free](https://multiplanet.ae) education, we got very inexpensively and we have actually made a motza out of the boost in house prices that we have chosen.'<br> |
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<br>In 1980, Sydney's mid-point priced house cost $65,000, or simply 4.5 times the average, full-time male wage in an age when a lady would have a hard time to get a mortgage without a signature from her husband.<br> |
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<br>Realty data group PropTrack estimated Sydney's typical house would cost $338,000 today, or simply 4.3 times the typical wage now for all Australian workers, if house costs had increased at the very same speed as salaries throughout the previous 45 years.<br> |
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<br>In 2025, Sydney's middle-priced home costs $1.47 million or 14.3 times the average, full-time salary of $103,000.<br> |
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<br>But that price-to-income ratio rises to 18.7 if it's based on the average wage of $78,567 for all employees.<br> |
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<br>AMP deputy chief financial expert Diana Mousina, a Millennial, stated the more youthful generations were having a harder time now [conserving](https://estatedynamicltd.com) up for 20 per cent mortgage deposit simply to purchase a home.<br> |
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<br>'The problem now is just entering into the market - that's what takes the larger chunk of attempting to save |
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