The Dandenong area of Melbourne has been named Australia’s first-home buyer capital and the wider city cemented as the nation’s top hotspot for market entrants.

It comes as part of new research showing more first-home buyers are making a move today than they were before the pandemic — despite a typical market entrant household being able to afford the mortgage on fewer than one five homes sold nationwide in the past year.

With the report also identifying the areas that are on top of first-home buyer shopping lists around the nation, it’s also a shortcut for where they could soon be driving a market boom off the back of boosted government support schemes and interest rate cuts.

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