🏠While you're renting

Landlord harassment — repeated unlawful entry, threats, excessive contact, deliberately interfering with your enjoyment of the property — is not just…

Fixed-term leases end — and if you want to stay, you need to act before that date.

Discovering cockroaches in the kitchen, mice in the ceiling, or termites in the walls is bad enough.

Commonwealth Rent Assistance is one of the most underclaimed payments in the Australian welfare system.

Excessive noise from neighbours is one of the most common sources of tenant misery — and one where renters often feel they have no power.

A burst pipe at midnight, a gas leak on a Sunday, no hot water in winter — urgent repairs cannot wait for office hours.

Co-living brands itself as the modern, flexible alternative to renting — all-inclusive bills, furnished rooms, community events, short notice periods to move…

The 482 visa was renamed the Skills in Demand (SID) visa in December 2024, and the reform did more than rebrand it — it restructured how sponsors engage with…

University students in Australia have two major housing paths: purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) — the large operators like UniLodge, Scape, Iglu,…

Every other mainland Australian state has a tenancy tribunal — NCAT in NSW, VCAT and RDRV in Victoria, QCAT in Queensland, SACAT in South Australia, NTCAT in…

Queensland handles rental disputes differently to every other state.

If you rent in New South Wales and cannot sort a dispute out with your landlord or agent directly, the next stop is usually the NSW Civil and Administrative…