Suburbtrends Media Desk — The Cost-of-Living Desk
Suburbtrends Media Desk
The Cost-of-Living Desk

What your money buys.

Set a budget. See where the typical home is still within reach — and how far that's shifted in a year — across the eight capitals. Scroll the budget to find your story.

Buyer's budget
$750,000
$450k$2.5m
The angle

CapitalShare of markets where the typical home is within budgetvs a year ago

How to read it: the bar is the share of a capital's markets where the typical (median) home is at or under your budget, today; the gold line marks where it sat a year ago. Each capital is split into its local markets. Comparison is today against twelve months ago from the same monthly dataset — three- and five-year cuts unlock once older files are loaded.

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