The Price Ladder.
Every market measured against the dearest — or the cheapest — in the country. The benchmark market is 100; everywhere else is read as a plain share of it, so you can see exactly where a market sits on the national ladder. Switch the yardstick, prices or rents, houses or units.
How to read it: the most expensive market in the country is set to 100 (under Vs dearest), and every market is shown as a percentage of it — a market at 45 costs 45% of the dearest. Flip to Vs cheapest and the cheapest market becomes the base, with everywhere else shown as a multiple of it (2.5× means two-and-a-half times the floor). Pick prices or rents and houses or units. Within each capital, markets are ranked dearest first; the slider sets where a market glows. Markets are SA3 areas. Greater Capital City areas, ABS GCCSA. Source: Suburbtrends, May 2026.
Kent will send the full ranking behind this exact cut — every market, by capital city and rest-of-state — and a quote you can attribute, with an embargo if you need one. Kent is available for interviews and podcasts — he'll confirm a time.