Landlords exploit Australia’s rental crisis with garden SHED up for $350 – and wooden box for $330
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The reality of renting in Australia’s biggest cities in 2023: Fury as a landlord has rented a garden SHED for $350, while another rents a wooden bed frame for $330
- The rent crisis in Sydney and Melbourne has been exposed
- A dilapidated wooden garden shed and deck are listed online
- Both advertise for hundreds of dollars in rent.
The shocking scope of the rent crisis in Sydney and Melbourne has been laid bare with a couple of ads urging tenants to pay hundreds of dollars for a dilapidated garden shed or wooden deck.
A converted garden shed for $350 per month is advertised on Facebook in an anonymous Melbourne suburb, described as an open-plan room with enough space for three beds plus a bathroom.
Astroturf is used as carpet and an old mattress is piled on the floor in photos seen by Daily Mail Australia.
It may look like a typical garden shed, but for an enterprising landlord, this is a room that advertises for $350 per month.
Inside the shed is a carpet of artificial grass and a single mattress stacked on the floor with wooden planks suspended above it
As an alternative for Sydneysiders, renters have the option of a rare wooden loft in Pyrmont’s city center for $330 per week.
Images uploaded to Flatmates.com.au show a wooden box raised off the ground with room for a mattress, but not much else.
The ad describes a living room below as a separate common space.
The room is shared with another tenant who also lives in a loft, although his own has “its own coach and space to relax below.”
The loft that was rented in early March, “which is the largest,” according to the listing, shares its lower space, but privacy is accommodated with a door separating the two areas.
The unique loft is located “in a beautiful historic building” according to the listing, I was looking for a tenant willing to stay a minimum of nine months close to Sydney’s CBD.
This ramshackle loft (pictured), a homemade wooden box with visible nails hammered into its exterior, was advertised for $330 a week.
The attic included a small coat rack above the ladder that led up to it.
There have been “staggering” increases in rents across Australia, with rates in Melbourne’s CBD rising by 42% in the last year, while rent in suburban New South Wales has risen more than 30%, according to a rental report from PropTrack.
Last week, Daily Mail Australia reported on a metal shed promoted as a “granny flat” being demolished after it was found to be in breach of council and national codes.
Meanwhile, a Sydney balcony with canvas and curtains acting as walls went up for sale for a staggering $300 a week in early February of this year.
The tiny room, barely big enough to fit a single bed, generated “a lot of interest,” according to the owner.
‘Permanent’ tents have reportedly popped up in Melbourne during a housing shortage there, with prices ranging from $90 to $130 a week on balconies across the city’s CBD.
The ‘granny flat’ was listed online for $1,000 a month (pictured) before complaints led Campbelltown council to order it torn down.
This ‘converted balcony’ (pictured) ‘generated a lot of interest’ according to the person who posted the listing on Facebook
‘Permanent’ tents (pictured) found on balconies, particularly in Melbourne, have been another option for desperate Australian renters.