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More coming to WA, but where can they live?
http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-new ... 20130107-2ccmr.html
About 1500 people move to Western Australia each week, most of them to Perth, squeezing into an already tight housing market.
Most are coming for work and are having to deal with high rental costs and a vacancy rate for rental properties of less than two per cent.
The average asking price for house rentals increased 15.4 per cent to $450 per week between September 2011 and September 2012, and preliminary figures are already showing a further rise of about $20 a week.
According to an expert in sustainability, many new arrivals are having to find accommodation further away from the CBD and their workplaces and in some cases are pushing others out of the market.
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Recruitment companies say the cost of housing is a surprise for many heading west.
Hays regional director of technical recruitment Chris Kent said most people who moved to Perth for work rented first to test an area out to see if they liked it.
He said while executive positions usually offered some accommodation initially, people in other roles, especially single people, were turning to shared accommodation as it was the only affordable option.
Mr Kent said people coming from Europe generally chose to move into the northern suburbs, whereas those coming from the eastern states were more likely to relocate somewhere near Mandurah.
"I guess that's just based on the information available to them back home," he said
Wood Recruitment managing director Scott Van Heurck said some workers moving to Perth were shocked at the price of housing.
"They do find it a bit expensive," he said.
Mr Van Heurck said while most dealt with the high price of accommodation, it was a deterrent for some.
He recalled one man who came from the United Kingdom to Perth and spent two or three weeks attending interviews and applying for roles before being put off by the price of housing.
"When he looked at the cost of living and property he went home," Mr Van Heurck said.
"He reckoned the Perth market was like the Irish housing market before it crashed," he said.
REIWA president David Airey said another factor making it difficult for people from outside of Western Australia to find a rental property was that they needed to do a physical inspection of a property to apply for it, so in many cases could not organise a property before they arrived.
He said real estate agents also looked for the best possible tenant, which meant that people coming here without employment may not be at the top of the list of candidates.
Head of the Sustainability Policy Institute at Curtin University Professor Peter Newman said Perth would grow at an even greater rate if there was the housing to cater for more people.
He said if there was housing for as many people who were willing to move to WA, the state could welcome even more people.
There are currently about 1500 new arrivals to the state each week.
"You could double that without any trouble, it's really only a question of the housing market and infrastructure," Professor Newman said.
"They are going further and further out and many don't want to be further out," he said.
Professor Newman said some had even moved to places such as Harvey, York and Northam and commuted to Perth.
"There's no doubt that the price of housing in Perth has become ridiculous," he said
"There will always be some at the bottom end of the rental market pushed out by those prepared to pay more."
Professor Newman said a simple solution was local governments allowing more apartments to be built and builders building "reasonably priced" apartments.
"It's a planning crisis, we don't build enough apartments," he said.
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