It's hard to dispute the single biggest issue facing Australia today is a seemingly runaway housing market.

A now two-decades long housing crisis has seen the family home increasingly being treated as an investment, rather than a human right.

It's frustrated a generation of renters.

But it's also made for some of the wealthiest Australians in a generation.

RBA leaves rates on hold Photo shows Michele Bullock stands behind podium with microphones, with RBA logos behind her

The Reserve Bank leaves interest rates on hold at 3.6 per cent.

The latest official data show total household wealth rose 2.7 per cent, or $470.1 billion, in the three months of the June quarter 2025, driven mainly by increases in property and land values.

And the higher property prices go, the longer it's takin

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