Young Aussies wanting to get their foot on the property ladder have been given a brutal reminder of how bleak the real estate sector is right now. There have been loads of statistics recently that highlight how bad the housing crisis has become with rents reaching record highs in some cities and mortgage repayments costing people as much as half their salary.

Real estate auctioneer Tom Panos told Mark Bouris' Yellow Brick Road podcast a young person with very little in the bank will take around two decades to "comfortably" afford a deposit for a Sydney apartment. Let that sink in for a moment.

If they keep up with the cost of living and rental market, they will be 40 years old by the time they can put down a deposit for a unit in the NSW capital. And that's just based on figures today, let alone what happens with prices and wages down the track.

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It's even worse for people wanting something larger.

"A house, if you’re age 20. It will take you until the age of 60 to get a deposit," Panos said.

“Back in the old days, that was the goal to have your home paid off by then, not to be saving for a deposit.”

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Bouris added that 15 years ago the average Aussie could afford a deposit at just 23 years old. That's now jumped to 32 years old.

In addition to inflation and wages impacting the housing crisis, it also doesn't help that new home starts have dropped to their lowest level in more than a decade due to a combination of constrained conditions in the building industry and elevated interest rates.

Bank of Mum and Dad, OnlyFans or business wins

Panos said very few young people managing to get their foot in the door were doing it the old-fashioned way.

“It’s uncomfortable for me to say, but the young people buying properties have their parents helping them, or if they’ve been really lucky with some sort of business that’s gone off," he said.

He added: “OnlyFans, believe it or not! I know a few people who have sold property and the agent has said to me ‘Mate, she’s got an OnlyFans account and she’s putting it into property’.

“Isn’t it interesting, where we are as a society now, to achieve the dream we’ve always been told?”

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