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If the demand for home commodities should be diminished, because of the fall of rent on the part of the landlords, it will be increased in a far greater degree by the increased opulence of the commercial classes.

A strong economy causes an increase in the demand for housing; the increased demand for housing drives real-estate prices and rentals through the roof. And then affordable housing becomes completely inaccessible.

We've got to make greedy banks pass on interest rate cuts in full, and we've got to see rents coming down.

There are tremendous barriers to building housing. If we could break them down, the need for rent controls would go away.

I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century.

The housing market will get worse before it gets better.

Rent and the cost of essentials like food and child care are rising so fast that wages are not keeping up.

As soon as the land of any country has all become private property, the landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed, and demand a rent even for its natural produce.

In Sydney, we always have a deficiency of housing. So that's one good thing, which will cause real estate to keep going up. Not fast, but it'll go up.

One common way of judging whether housing's price is in line with its fundamental value is to consider the ratio of housing prices to rents. This is analogous to the ratio of prices to dividends for stocks.