They certainly cant afford it play2win,if they work in the local steel fabrication industry. What a joke, theres a lot of remedial steel fabrication work been done in Perth to fix up dodgy Chinese work,which should have been done locally in the first place. That said if a young couple are working "upnorth" why cant they buy a $500k house? Please spare me big cols imput,whatabout the coogee business thats got a contract to supply the "stealth bomber" project,their moving to Sydney and will employ 400 odd people,if it aint a hole cols not interested,hes pathetic. Regions for royaltys,yeah right,fake cows on the way to margaret river,musical dunnies,the mantra from big col=is full cost recovery,please play2win what about the stamp duty on houses,which is bloody criminal IMHO,removing this anathema should IMHO be a priority from both sides of the WA parliament. This is just one immediate measure which would impact the housing market for the better. You mentioned housing finance in the US,they have fixed rate 30 year mortgages,why cant we have them here?