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THE LATEST FROM OUR BLOG
Forget Red or Green Tape, Developers Squeeze Housing Supply with Gold Tape
Presentation: What Happens Behind the Land Supply Curtain?
Staged Releases in The Age
Media Release: Staged Releases
Launch: Staged Releases Report
Public Education Key to NSW SD-Land Tax reform
NSW’s First Home Buyers Choice the conversation starter housing needs
Transformative housing policy
Our latest Research
Staged Releases: Peering Behind the Land Supply Curtain
In this report we ask whether the private choices of property owners to supply new housing according to market conditions works against the stated public policy outcome of supply-driven affordability through rezoning.
Stamp Duty to Land Tax: Designing the Transition
For politicians searching for a circuit-breaker on state tax reform, our model offers generous but logical concessions for existing owners, choice for future buyers, and an attractive introductory period to secure support early on. It is complex at the policy design back-end but simple at the taxpayer front-end.
The Rezoning Honeypot: Evidence from Fishermans Bend
The circumstances surrounding the rezoning of Fishermans Bend, a 240-hectare brownfields precinct adjacent to the Melbourne CBD, provides for a simple quasi-experiment to quantify rezoning uplifts.
The Second Interval: evaluating the ACT’s 20 Year Land Value Taxation
Propser is undertaking a series of five reports, to be published every four years, examining the progress and impacts of the ACT Government’s ambitious land tax reform agenda.
ACCC, Auditor Generals MIA re Land Banking
August 2, 2022