Soos and Egan – Australian Property Chart Pack

  By Philip Soos and Paul D. Egan This chart pack presents the latest statistics for 2014, updating the dataset provided earlier last year. When adjusted for inflation and quality, housing prices have boomed nationwide since 1996, hitting a peak in 2010, before...
Funding Melbourne’s new underground rail link

Funding Melbourne’s new underground rail link

Media Release “The Andrews government has lost no time putting its stamp on the future shape of Melbourne, funding the planning stage of the Melbourne Metro Rail tunnel – while fretting about the $9 billion cost. “Victoria can fund this vital connection, lifting train...

Schroders: A-REITs will cost you

Schroders has a paper out on Australian real estate investment trusts (REITs) A wolf in REIT’s clothing that should have every RE executive checking the polish on their shoes. David Wanis is as dour as a parson, predicting a ~1.6% return for each of the next three...

Sydney Swans and Melbourne Demons

What passes for analysis or commentary on property matters in Australia’s media is bloody woeful. Robert Gottliebsen is out this morning on Business Spectator Why Sydney won’t mirror Melbourne’s apartment glut supposedly comparing Sydney and...

The FIRB’s new milk teeth

The report of the parliamentary committee inquiry into the Foreign Investment Review Board is out. The inquiry has been conducted with great fanfare to edify the Liberals’ rising star and  MHR for Higgins Kelly O’Dwyer. And what are its findings, once the...