🇦🇺 AU · Western Australia
Perth.
Where the housing market sits.
Mining-economy proxy — undervalued during the 2014-2020 commodity downturn, sharply rerated as iron ore and lithium pricing recovered.
Updated 20h ago
Latest data: 2025-10-01
ABS RPPI Perth · RBA · 2021 Census
Perth sits in Bubble Watch — unaffordable and still climbing. Affordability scores 1/100 and momentum 95/100.
City gauges
Affordability
1
Extreme — bottom decile
0 · Most expensive100 · Most affordable
- Median price (AUD)
- A$800,000City-level median home price, source-specific (see below).
- Median household income (AUD)
- A$96,000Most recent published metro-level median household income.
- Mortgage payment burden
- 48.5%30-year amortized payment at current rates as a share of median household income.
Momentum
95
Extreme — top decile
0 · Cooling/declining100 · Running hot
- Year-over-year price change
- —Not yet sourced for this market — see methodology.
- Months of supply
- —Not yet sourced for this market — see methodology.
- Days on market
- —Not yet sourced for this market — see methodology.
Regime · What the gauges say together
Bubble watch
Unaffordable and still appreciating in real terms.
Unaffordable, and still climbing.
Context
| Real price growth (3-mo annualized) | +40.69% |
| Headline mortgage rate | 6.1% |
| CPI year-over-year | 1.02% |
| Leading equity indicators (homebuilders/REITs) | -4.1% avg vs 200-day MA · breadth 0/3 |
Data sources for Perth
- CoreLogic Daily HVI
- REIWA market reports
Full source documentation on /data-sources.
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