Deposit hurdle gets slightly lower for first home buyers
First home buyers are able to enter the market a little faster than a year ago, new research has found.
At a national level in February, it took 4 years 9 months for a first home buyer to save a 20% deposit on an entry-level house, compared to 4 years 11 months the year before. For an entry-level unit, the time to save a deposit was 3 years 5 months – one month faster than the year before.
The reason that first home buyers are now able to save a deposit more quickly is not because property prices have fallen over the past year – because they've actually increased. Rather, it's because earnings power (through a combination of higher wages and higher savings account interest rates) has grown faster than property prices.
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