Council sees long-term rental as solution to regional worker shortages

From 2014 to 2020 house prices in the town soared from $330,000 to $715,000.

Bright’s population grew by 1.3 per cent in the year to 2020. But by April the number of long-term let properties had fallen by 6 per cent on the year before, with some changing over to the short-term market.