Bad taxes blight our land
Last week I offered a solution to the blight caused by vacant or disused sites in central Melbourne. Everyone [...]
Read MoreLand Bubble, Tax Bubble
by Bryan Kavanagh reposted from On-line Opinion I’m constantly told Australia’s land prices are astronomically high because of our [...]
Read MoreEnglobo II: The Money Sleeps
A fact-free defence of urban planners in The Conversation yesterday has left me fuming about how this group is immersed [...]
Read MoreListed Developer Englobo Holdings
7 March 2013 Prosper Australia today issues its update of ‘Englobo’ holdings of listed property developers (attached), as revealed [...]
Read MoreA long, ugly list of house price precedents
by Philip Soos For those interested in the Australian residential property market, below are a collection of figures illustrating long-term [...]
Read MoreThe Land market’s big sigh
The ABS House Price Indexes 8 Capital Cities Dec 2012 6416.0 was released this morning and shows prices rising [...]
Read MoreThe irregular ratio spooking property
by Philip Soos Escalating housing costs have, of course, received much attention as both prices and rents increased faster [...]
Read MoreAustralian Cities Severely Unaffordable
The latest annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey ranks all Australian capitals as Severely Unaffordable. They’re right and the [...]
Read MoreA plague on Aussie housing
By Philip Soos Is Australia’s residential property market in a price bubble? This question has been much debated over [...]
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A sore lesson from housing history
by David Collyer
It is often said those who fail to understand the mistakes of the past are bound to repeat it. In [...]
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