by Karl Fitzgerald | Jun 30, 2008 | Commentary
Today’s Age Artice Higher Rentals Seen as Spur for Investment by Chris Vedelago is a good prompter to peer behind the curtains of rental yield. Despite the headline quoting a new report saying that gross rental yields are at an attractive 5.5% for investors,...
by Karl Fitzgerald | Jun 27, 2008 | Commentary
Interesting developments in Canberra can be tracked via this ABC report: Buy the house, rent the land: ACT’s new housing plan. As many will know, it’s not the first time this has occurred. Read one of our most popular web pages: Canberra’s Land...
by Karl Fitzgerald | Jun 26, 2008 | Letters to the Editor
Letter to the Age Thursday June 26th WHEN we hear that the rental vacancy rate is less than 1% (“$155-a-week Lalor ‘shack’ highlights rental crisis”, The Age, 25/6), we need to remember that this figure includes only dwellings offered “to...
by Karl Fitzgerald | Jun 24, 2008 | Progress Magazine
Geoff Forster The International Union for Land Value Taxation is launching a campaign to modify the UN Declaration of Human Rights. Article 3 at present reads: Everyone has the right to life, liberty and the security of person. The proposed amended version is:...
by Karl Fitzgerald | Jun 23, 2008 | Commentary
What else need we say? Understand why making ends meet is such a challenge and what we can do about it.