What made rents soar? It might have been COVID, and pairing off
- Written by Peter Martin, Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University

So, you think you know why rents climbed.
You probably think was skyrocketing interest rates and a tsunami of migration.
It’s true that interest rates have jumped more over the past year than at any time on record, and it’s true that migration has roared back – in the six months to September 2022 (the latest month for...