Housing market slows amid cost-of-living pressures, rate rises | ABC NEWS

House prices are growing at the slowest pace in more than a year, dragged down by declines in Australia's largest cities.  
Rising inflation, higher interest rates, and the fuel crisis sparked by the war in the Middle East are pushing some buyers to the sidelines.

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