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What made rents soar? It might have been COVID, and pairing off

  • Written by Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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So, you think you know why rents climbed.

You probably think was skyrocketing interest rates and a tsunami of migration.

It’s true that interest rates have jumped more over the past year than at any time on record, and it’s true that migration has roared back – in the six months to September 2022 (the latest month for...

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