Brisbane couple Roxana Nae and Corey Allen shared news of their home buy
While friends announced babies on the way, Brisbane couple Roxana Nae and Corey Allen shared their own big news – “We’re having a…mortgage!”
The social media post celebrating buying their first house together swiftly gained traction for its humour and relatability, as crippling unaffordability often forces young Aussies to choose between starting a family or entering the property market.
The 40-year-olds filmed a cheeky video embracing in front of the ‘sold’ sign at their newly acquired home, in a style similar to popular pregnancy announcement posts.
The couple outside their Springfield Lakes property
“Everyone’s having babies. We’re having debt,” the caption read.
“Still excited. Still proud. Still slightly stressed.”
“You got me good,” commented one follower.
“That’s a very large baby,” joked another.
Ms Nae said the 30-year loan commitment they undertook seemed comparable to raising a child.
“We’re not having babies for now but this kind of feels the same because it’s a big mortgage and it is such a roller coaster of emotions.”
Ms Nae moved from her native Italy 10 years ago and said the great Aussie dream of home ownership was not shared in Europe, where many people rent long-term until inheriting a property.
Ms Nae is a small business owner while Mr Allen works for a mining company
The remedial sports massage therapist opened her own business in Bowen Hills in 2024.
Mr Allen, who works for a mining company, was keen to build their wealth through property. They enlisted broker Justin Forbes to compare finance options and engaged buyers agent Lauren Jones, who sourced their Springfield Lakes house for about $1.1m.
While it was their first joint purchase, Mr Allen also owns a home in Clayfield.
“Our broker told us the maximum amount we could borrow and we said, ‘okay, we don’t want to go to our maximum so we can easily afford our repayments’,” Ms Nae said, adding they used a spreadsheet to manage their expenses, and split their loan contributions relative to their disparate earnings.
“I had no idea what I was getting into, but Lauren guided us and we managed to buy the house in three weeks,” she said.
Springfield Lakes house prices surged more than 10 per cent last year
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Despite their careful research before purchasing, Ms Nae admitted: “Corey is already sweating at the thought of our repayments”.
The four-bedroom, two-bathroom house is currently tenanted at $750 a week, and listed to rent from March at $875.
PropTrack data shows Springfield Lakes house prices climbed 11.5 per cent since last year to a median of $860,000, while rents were up 8.3 per cent.
It comes as latest data from Compare the Market shows Queensland recorded the nation’s biggest increase in loan repayments over the past decade.
Queensland homeowners have been hit with the biggest increase in loan repayments over the past decade
The analysis of Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures showed Sunshine State homeowners were paying $22,000 more a year on an average home loan, compared to the national increase of $19,000.
In Queensland, a typical home loan blew out from $358,000 in 2015 to $687,000 last year, up 92 per cent.
Queenslanders paid an average of $3,901 per month in 2025, compared to $2,024 ten years ago – a spike of $1,877.
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