Rental Report - Quarterly: Moving Annual Rents by Suburb

Brief description

This section of the Rental Report provides a summary of the affordability of

rental housing for lower income households in Victoria. The method used in

this section measures the supply of affordable new lettings based on the

Residential Tenancies Bond Authority data used in this Report. The

affordability benchmark used is that no more than 30 per cent of gross income

is spent on rent. Lower income households are defined as those receiving

Centrelink incomes.



The Rental Report provides key statistics on the private rental market in

Victoria. The major source for the statistics presented in the Rental Report

is the Residential Tenancies Bond Authority which collects data on all rental

bonds lodged under the Residential Tenancies Act 1997.