Posts Tagged ‘speculators’

Land Supply controlled by Land Bankers

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

Below we can see 2 examples of former Commonwealth land being released ‘to the market’. Snapped up by a developer in Melbourne’s most impoverished neighbourhood (Braybrook), such large ‘land banks’ are manipulated to drip feed houses to the markets so that high prices are assured. The building of homes is moderated by land bankers to [...]