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Rents are determined by the market supply and demand,
Supply of dwellings available to be rented vs Amount of people wanting to rent them determines the rental price.
2. renters leaving a certain market. will reduce prices.
No, people will sell or be foreclosed on and live in their cars, move in with family or rent a caravan in some ones back yard like they did in the 80's and this will put more property's on the rental market at a lower price and if the land lord buys he will most like reduce rents to cover costs only.
Wouldn't the above be the determinant of vacancy rates, rather than rental price?
Surely the major determinant of rental prices is 'ability to pay a certain price' rather than simply the demand for rental properties. i.e. higher unemployment and slow wage growth may not have a major impact on demand for rentals, but would have a significant impact on prices.
therefore if renters are leaving the market to buy their own house due to rapidly dropping or bottomed out prices would in fact reduce rent prices...?
But if they are buying houses in the same market the net affect is the same.
eg, A sydney renter stops renting and buys a property from a sydney land lord, He has vacated a rental property but taken another off the market,
Only if people are moving out of the market to another city does it have any affect, if the city is maintaining the same number of house holds and it is only the ownership being shuffled there will be little affect on rents being charged.
1, foreign investors who have numerous houses sitting totally vacant in sydney, might be forced to sell up
2, as previously discussed boomers who are downsizing to units or small townhouses, or even retirement homes(which would possibly come under your 'those who move cities' category.
3, the assumption that people who move out of a rented property will then only buy from a landlord/property investor is absurd.
4, there is no guarantee landlords will be able to offload their property, not to mention potential lag time of months or even years between the renter leaving and being able to sell the property if tenants cannot be found.
5, if you are right and rental price is dictated by supply and demand then you would expect investors to see the same prices well into the future as they are now if not increasing steadily, as in a declining property market people arent rushing out to buy houses that are plummeting, but are far more likely to rent until they think it's bottomed. im struggling to see prices going up if things go south
3, No they will also be buying from home owners, But then the home owner has to live some where, they will either rent or buy another house either way it's a zero sum.
HOUSING UTILISATION
While Australian households are becoming smaller on average, dwelling size (as indicated by the number of bedrooms) is increasing. The average number of persons per household has declined from 3.1 in 1976 to 2.6 in 2007-08. In the same period, the proportion of dwellings with four or more bedrooms has risen from 17% to 29% and the average number of bedrooms per dwelling has increased from 2.8 to 3.1.
In 2007-08, most households enjoyed relatively spacious accommodation. For example, 86% of lone-person households were living in dwellings with two or more bedrooms; 75% of two-person households had three or more bedrooms; and 35% of three-person households had four or more bedrooms. Over a fifth (21%) of three-bedroom dwellings, and 8% of four-bedroom dwellings, had only one person living in them (table 10.3).
So....
Crashing economy.
Job losses.
Mortgage defaults.
Low rental vacanies.
High rents.
High homelessness.
If events come to pass. Will be an interesting ride.
How does homeless people squatting in repo'd IPs no one wants to buy sound ?
exaggeration I know, but still it is lol.
Not necessarily zero sum, they may have just inherited a property, they may be moving back in with the parents, they may be moving into a retirement home, they may be moving in with the kids.....there's a whole bunch of scenarios.3, No they will also be buying from home owners, But then the home owner has to live some where, they will either rent or buy another house either way it's a zero sum.
That is because some employment sectors (mining, construction/engineering) have had considerable wage increases while most sectors have not. Plenty that can't afford a home on their wages.4, it takes very little time to find a tenant,
Not necessarily zero sum, they may have just inherited a property, they may be moving back in with the parents, they may be moving into a retirement home, they may be moving in with the kids.....there's a whole bunch of scenarios.
Cheers
in a falling market something has to give.
1, if everything went as per your rosey examples prices would never rise nor fall in house prices or rentals.
2,can you please give some examples as to what would cause a fall in rental demand and in-turn rental prices, if not house prices themselves?
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