In February 2025, the Australian city of Adelaide had a residential rental property vacancy rate of 0.7 percent. The residential rental property vacancy rate in Adelaide had decreased each year between February 2017 and 2024.

In the first quarter of 2021, the vacancy rate of prime office real estate in Adelaide CBD was 12.3 percent. The vacancy rate had been decreasing until the end of 2019. However, the recent COVID-19 outbreak seemed to have led to a decline in office leasing enquiries, and therefore an increase in the vacancy rate in 2020 and 2021.

As of May 2021, hotel occupancy rates in Adelaide, Australia were at around 95 percent of the levels seen in May 2019. Perth's recovery from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic may be attributed to the opening of six new hotel properties since the beginning of the pandemic.

In the fourth quarter of 2024, the house price-to-rent ratio in Australia was estimated at *****, marking a decrease from the same quarter of the previous year. An indicator of how strong the property market is, the house price-to-rent ratio was calculated by dividing nominal house prices by rent price indices. Within the given period, after reaching a peak in the first quarter of 2022, the price-to-rent ratio decreased each quarter until the second quarter of 2023. From then on, the house price-to-rent ratio fluctuated, but largely trended downwards. Is Australia in a property bubble? Many industry experts believe the country is in a property bubble, indicated by the rapid increase in Australian property market prices to the point that they are no longer relative to incomes and rents, followed by a decline. The house price-to-income ratio was on an upward trend between the third quarter of 2022 and the second quarter of 2024. Nonetheless, after hitting its peak, it declined to ***** in the fourth quarter of 2024. Rental property demand In March 2025, the rental vacancy rate, which indicates how many properties are available for rent out of all the rental stock, was relatively high in Melbourne, Canberra, and Sydney. That year, the average weekly rent prices varied across the country depending on the city, with the highest average weekly rents for houses and units in Sydney. Hobart, on the other hand, had the most affordable rental properties across Australia's capital cities.