by David Collyer | Mar 25, 2014 | Articles
By Catherine Cashmore, a market analyst, journalist, and policy thinker, with extensive industry experience in all aspects relating to property. Follow Catherine on Twitter or via her Blog. The protests that washed across major cities and towns a few days ago, covered...
by David Collyer | Feb 27, 2014 | Campaigns, Commentary, Our Policy
Australia has blown a land bubble of immense size. This troubling reality has finally come to the attention of the Senate and obliged it to examine the matter. Prosper Australia’s submission to the Senate Housing Affordability inquiry examines nine key economic...
by David Collyer | Feb 19, 2014 | Commentary
In an extraordinary outburst, the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute has today embraced planning constraints on urban subdivision, elevating ‘developer certainty’ over the risk – heaven forbid! – of oversupply. I kid you not. “While it is almost...
by David Collyer | Jan 24, 2014 | Articles, Commentary
Victorian Planning Minister Matthew Guy has been out this week energetically pointing to fresh ‘land releases’ around Melbourne. Growth, or the illusion of growth, is a powerful sedative that buys contentment and political support. He will bang this drum hard. Plan...
by David Collyer | Jan 15, 2014 | Commentary
Letters, Australian Financial Review 15 January 2014 p33 Peter Pitt (“High wages force companies to consider offshore options”, AFR January 10) suggests that a lower minimum wage will improve employment retention in Australia. The lower wage countries he uses to...