Anthony Albanese is questioned about major funding announcement - months before he purchased his new mansion

Anthony Albanese has come under fire for purchasing a $4.3 million mansion, as taxpayers are set to contribute $100 million to upgrade the main road leading to the property.

Anthony Albanese and his fiancée Jodie Haydon bought the four-bedroom home at Copacabana on the NSW Central Coast, ahead of the couple's wedding, 2GB's Ben Fordham revealed earlier this week.

However, the timing, in the middle of a housing crisis, has been called into question, as the federal government looks to push affordable property measures through parliament.

Meanwhile, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese faced questions from Sky News host Sharri Markson about whether he knew he was planning to purchase a home in the area before announcing millions of dollars in taxpayer funding for road nearby.

In June, Mr Albanese announced plans to upgrade Avoca Drive, the main road on the Central Coast, during a press conference.

Initially, he pledged $30 million for the project during the 2022 federal election campaign, but in February 2023, he increased the funding to $70 million, bringing the total to $100 million.

Construction on Avoca Drive is expected to begin in mid-2025.

Avoca Drive is the main thoroughfare Mr Albanese would need to use in his commute to work from his Copacabana home.

A spokesperson for the Prime Minister told Markson that the funding was entirely unrelated to his purchase of the home.

'The Albanese Government has delivered record road infrastructure funding to ensure Australians everywhere have better roads to drive on,' she said.

The purchase has shocked State Labor MPs in NSW, with many claiming it was 'stupid timing' and showed poor political judgment.

'It displays his lack of political and social understanding of what people, particularly in Western Sydney , are experiencing,' one MP told the Daily Telegraph.

The MP added Mr Albanese has spent more than $4million on a retirement home while many Australians struggle to 'afford to put food on the table' amid the country's cost-of-living and housing crisis.

Another MP labelled the move as 'stupid', claiming Mr Albanese has 'already checked out' and was 'already thinking about what's next'.

Top Australian polling analyst Kos Samaras said Mr Albanese was jeopardising crucial voting groups with the purchase.

'In a country where we are now all about which tribe you belong to, he's just projected very clearly that the low-income constituencies on which Labor relies are not part of his tribe,' Mr Samaras said.

Greens housing spokesman Max Chandler-Mather shared his thoughts on the Prime Minister's purchase on social media.

'Labor and the Liberals have created a housing system where a property investor can buy a $4.3m beachfront home, while millions can't even find an affordable rental, let alone buy a house of their own,' Mr Chandler-Mather said.

Asked about the optics of the beach house purchase, Mr Albanese said federal parliament had a responsibility to enact housing policies.

'What I am focused on is delivering more houses for Australians,' he said in Hobart on Wednesday.

'This is about helping 40,000 Australians into their own home, and I can't understand why the Liberals, Nationals or the Greens do not vote for it.'

The next federal election is due by May, with housing set to dominate the campaign.

The government has tried to get policies through parliament allowing first-home buyers to have a lower deposit for a property but has been blocked in the Senate by the coalition and the Greens.