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PHOTO: Leane Van Essen and Gin Di Francesco at their rental property in Mascot. They are just some of thousands of Australians who have fallen victim to widespread rental hikes. Picture: Adam Yi<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Renters are suffering from \u201cridiculous\u201d rent hikes due to a chronic housing shortage, as city-dwellers flood regional markets and landlords flip rental properties to short-term housing to accommodate an influx of tourists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Suburb-level analysis collected by\u00a0PropTrack exclusively for The Oz<\/a>\u00a0revealed Killcare Heights on the central coast of NSW experienced the greatest rent increase over the past 12 months at 72.6 per cent, followed by Rainbow Beach on Queensland\u2019s south coast (72.5 per cent) and Stahan in western Tasmania (68.4 per cent).<\/p>\n

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Killcare Ray White agent Sue Rallis said some local properties have risen from $700 to $1500 a week since the pandemic began, due to Sydneysiders making the most of a Covid-induced at-home lifestyle and moving into regional areas.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are happy to come out of the cities and move regionally, which has pushed up the rent over the last year or two,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s been hard for the locals. They have been living in an area that a lot of people didn\u2019t want to live in, and have been paying quite low rents there over the years. Now it\u2019s very difficult for the locals to afford some of the rents.\u201d<\/p>\n

Median weekly rental prices in June were up 7 per cent on the same month last year, marking the strongest annual rental growth recorded since before 2015. Rising prices have been felt the most regionally, where they increased 11.4 per cent year-on-year to June, compared to 4.4 per cent in the capital cities.<\/p>\n

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This came as the total supply of rentals dropped 27.7 per cent below its decade average.<\/p>\n

PropTrack director of economic research Cameron Kusher said a devastating lack of supply has driven prices upwards, as fewer owners put their second properties up for rent.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people that have bought quote unquote \u2018investment properties\u2019 aren\u2019t necessarily buying them to make them available for rent, they\u2019re buying them as second homes,\u201d he said. \u201cYou\u2019ve also got the added pressure now that domestic and international travel is back that the supply of rental stock is spinning out because people are putting their properties into short term rental accommodation, rather than long term.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr Kusher said rental growth in inner-city areas has been \u201cpretty weak\u201d over the past two years as tenants stayed put, but has suddenly increased over the past six months after long term lockdowns ended.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have seen again in Sydney and Melbourne in those inner and middle ring markets in the apartment markets in particular, it has been very hard to rent out a property over the last few years,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, a lot of people sold out of their investment properties, and we haven\u2019t seen a lot of developers building new one and two bedroom apartments. Therefore, we haven\u2019t had that increase in supply we needed to keep up with demand.\u201d<\/p>\n

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