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House price boom as demand outstrips supply in Tasmanian regional towns
Moving to Tasmania has been a decades-long dream for Ardione McLachlan.
Key points:
- New data shows house prices in regional Tasmania have risen by almost 12 per cent in the past year
- It is the biggest increase in the country
- Demand for regional housing is outstripping supply
She first expressed her desire to move to the island state when she was 16, but finally took the plunge last month — some 37 years later.
Ms McLachlan’s family had lived on the Sunshine Coast in Queensland for years, but now she, her husband and teenage daughter call the north-west Tasmanian town of Penguin home.
“I love the cool over being really hot all the time, but also it’s really relaxed,” she said.
“Even when we were living out west, it still had that real…
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