Soaring house prices may be locking people into marriages, new research shows
- Written by Stephen Whelan, Associate Professor of Economics, University of Sydney

House prices continued to rise across Australia in June, recent data shows. Nationally, prices have risen about 38% in the past five years.
Higher housing prices are simply one contributor, albeit a very important one, to the cost of living crisis that Australian households face. Energy prices are another.
Those higher costs...