Australia’s love affair with housing has helped to blunt the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and consequent recession. Retail figures show consumer spending on white goods has been red-hot and there has been a trend away from inner-city units towards bigger properties in the suburbs or in regional centres with good transport links to major cities. Working from home while the kids study under the same roof has produced an epiphany: if there is a risk of being confined to barracks by government, better to make those lodgings as spacious and comfortable as possible.

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