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photo credit: tinou bao 27 July 2011 The AMP/NATSEM report on housing affordability released today draws a clear picture of Australia’s house price dilemma. It fails, however, in concluding house prices will remain stable for a decade while real incomes catch up. “This survey ignores the contradictions within this wildly overheated market,” Prosper Australia Campaign [...]

The battle over auction clearance rate statistics just turned into war. SQM Research’ Louis Christopher – one of the few straight shooters in the real estate statistics game – has just issued this broadside in the SQM Research Newsletter. And he is right. We quote it in its entirety: SQM Research Newsletter dated 26 July [...]

26 July 2011 MELBOURNE:- “In the last three months alone, ‘Stale Stock’ in Melbourne postcodes 3000-3207 has ballooned from 19,800 to 31,600,” Prosper Australia Campaign Manager David Collyer said today. ‘Stale Stock’ is property on the market for more than sixty days and unsold. Gardens have been primped, interiors polished up, advertisements run, open for [...]

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photo credit: Jeff Kubina A young academic has produced a fresh review of the economic fundamentals behind The Great Australian Land Bubble, and concluded “a collapse in property prices appears unavoidable”. ‘Bubbling Over’ examines the history of house prices in Australia from 1880 to 2011, including a critical analysis of the arguments offered by the [...]

14 July 2011 MELBOURNE:- “Falling land sales further signal the ending of The Great Australian Land Bubble,” Prosper Australia Campaign Manager David Collyer said today. Australian land sales volumes have fallen for the last six quarters, according to Housing Industry Association/RP Data statistics released this morning. “The HIA’s blaming government charges for high land prices [...]

Poor Wile E. Coyote’s cunning plans never produced a meal. He invested everything, but always went over a cliff or was holding the exploding bomb. Warner Brothers mercilessly milked the moment he realizes his plot has failed – his defeated dreams had us children roaring with laughter. Australia’s property market is pedalling air. Buyers have [...]

photo credit: AveLardo Letter to the Editor – The Age Bryan Kavanagh, Glen Waverley It’s sickening to see the two major parties compete to sell Australians out as they kow-tow to foreign interests in connection with our natural resources. As Julia Gillard accedes to the requirements of the big miners, Tony Abbott says she’s still [...]