House or apartment? City or country? The big things to consider when buying a first home

By Xin Janet Ge, Associate Professor, School of Built Environment, University of Technology Sydney

Buying a first home is one of the biggest financial decisions a person can make. There are so many questions to consider it can be hard to know where to begin.

Where should I be looking to buy? Should I buy a house, or an apartment? And should it be an established home, an apartment off the plan, or a new build?

The answers to these and other relevant questions will be different for everyone – there’s no one-size-fits-all answer.

That said, academic research can still help to unpack some of the key things for first home buyers to consider when choosing where…

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