Sydney rental market crisis: Hundreds line up for unit inspections in Randwick, ... trends now
Sydney's insane rental market has been thrown into the spotlight again with shocking footage showing hundreds of prospective tenants lined up down streets across the city.
Ciara O'Loughlin moved from Dublin to Sydney last week and spent the weekend inspecting 12 properties around Randwick and Coogee in the city's eastern suburbs.
But when she and her friend arrived to the inspections they were met with massive queues of fellow applicants stretching around the block.
Ms O'Loughlin said each of the 12 units had 'significant' queues of people waiting outside, but added the apartments were 'pretty decent'.
'I'd say the longest queue was easily between 100 and 150 people,' she told Daily Mail Australia.
Ciara O'Loughlin filmed an insane line of prospective renters waiting outside an apartment inspection in Randwick on Saturday
The young woman said there was as many as 150 people waiting to go inside one unit in Sydney's eastern suburbs
Huge queues of Sydneysiders are seen lining up to inspect an apartment in Randwick
'But I actually wasn't waiting too long at all, I'd say the longest wait was 20 minutes as people were literally in and out in two minutes.'
She said while she and her friend had applied for each apartment, they weren't feeling overly confident.
'What I've heard is people are offering over the asking rent to secure a place so it's very competitive,' Ms O'Loughlin said.
The enormous lines of renters were seen in a TikTok she shared this week, with countless people filmed waiting on the pavement outside several apartment blocks.
More footage showed similar lines seen inside a unit complex, with dozens of applicants waiting around aimlessly in the shared corridor.
Another Sydneysider and former real estate agent Danny Da Rocha, 29, was at a listing in Zetland on Saturday and guessed he was one of about 70 looking to
