Comment on Discussion Thread 🍰 Wednesday 10 September 2025

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Nath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁊ ⁨weeks⁊ ago

There are some essential criteria for a place to live:

  1. 3+ bedrooms
  2. 2+ bathrooms (there are four of us including a teenager)
  3. Inside the catchment of the high school.

With those points, there are presently two places in our suburb for $750/week. Moving is a lot of effort to save $2,600 in a year - assuming either place is comparable to our present (fairly nice) townhouse.

It honestly does appear to be the going rate for houses in Perth. Even going out of the school catchment doesn’t save much. The “cheap” suburbs with crime being a variable are still $550-$600/week. Which is what we were paying for a decent 4 bedroom home in the next suburb over only three years ago. Housing prices in Perth have gone bananas.

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