One Nation-Leaning Suburbs Defy Australia's Downturn as Secret Harbour Prices Rise 0.5%
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Updated · The Nightly · Sep 3
One Nation-Leaning Suburbs Defy Australia's Downturn as Secret Harbour Prices Rise 0.5%
3 articles · Updated · The Nightly · Sep 3
Summary
New data shows house prices in One Nation-leaning outer suburbs are holding steady or still rising even as Australia’s broader housing market declines.
Redbridge strategist Kos Samaras said these areas were cheaper to enter and less overborrowed, with house-and-land packages avoiding the boom-era overpricing that hit affluent cosmopolitan suburbs harder.
Secret Harbour, 60km south of Perth, posted a 0.5% rise to $1.069 million over three months while greater Perth fell 3%; nearby Golden Bay was flat and Madora Bay rose 2%.
Similar patterns appeared in Greenbank near Brisbane, where prices held at $1.156 million as Brisbane fell 2.9%, and in West Gladstone, where prices rose 2.2% to $532,000.
Many of these suburbs share a political-demographic mix—state Labor, federal Liberal, English or Australian ancestry—and are emerging as fertile ground for One Nation, highlighted by an 18.7% swing in Secret Harbour.