Single trend emerges amid ‘impossible’ housing crisis
A young tradie who has been working since he was a teenager has revealed the creative workaround he has discovered to enter the property market. Jared Johnston, 26, lives on the Gold Coast and is a plumber. He rents in a share house and is careful with his spending, yet cannot afford to buy his first home – despite entering the workforce at just 14 years old. The median price for a home on the Gold Coast reached $1.32 million in 2025. The sunny city is catching up with Australia’s most expensive city, Sydney, where the median house price is over $1.5 million. The Gold Coast is fast becoming an unaffordable destination for first-home buyers, and since Mr Johnston is single, trying to buy a property – even with a decent wage – is near-impossible with one income. Read more- https://www.news.com.au/finance/real-estate/buying/impossible-tradie-shocked-by-mortgage-broker-finds-clever-solution/news-story/8c0c1ac03d2b6e3ee700fe126d55f70e