00:00In Tambalup, a residential revival is underway.
00:06It's a beautiful old 1930s vintage house.
00:09It's got hundred year old roses all around the garden, so it's just a beautiful place.
00:13A year ago the town was peppered with vacant homes.
00:16Now almost all have been sold to people looking for a place they can afford.
00:20We got a half acre block with this house for under $170,000.
00:24So it was a very good price compared to other country towns
00:28and still close enough to everything that we needed.
00:30The influx of new residents is welcome.
00:33It's good to have all our houses full.
00:36Obviously the more people we have in the town the better.
00:39We'd like to see some more young families.
00:41And it doesn't take long to sell a house in Broomhill or Tambalup these days.
00:46The Real Estate Institute says the median price for a Tambalup house was $135,000.
00:52That's well below the Perth median price of $735,000
00:56and the national median of $800,000.
00:59As a result this town's population has grown by 8% in one year.
01:04At the national scale we are seeing people moving away from large metropolitan centres
01:10and that's really caused by the very, very high cost of living in those areas.
01:14While coastal relocations have been on the rise for years now,
01:17there's a new trend heading inland.
01:20People moving to the drier wheat belt communities,
01:23both in New South Wales, Victoria and across in Western Australia, is more unusual.
01:28Our aim at the moment is to stay here until we die.
01:32We are that happy with the community.
01:34A dying wish, breathing new life into regional Australia.
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