A collection of the week’s radio interviews regarding our 8th report into Speculative Vacancies: With Catherine Cashmore on our favourite weekly show, the Renegade Economists: Vacancies Up, House Prices Up by Renegade Economists on Mixcloud Tony Biggs interviews Karl Fitzgerald…
In other news, our colleague Michael Hudson (who will appear on next week’s Renegade Economists radio show) provides his unique insight into geo-politics. Cross-posted from his site: On December 8, the IMF’s Chief Spokesman Gerry Rice sent a note…
Media Release: Speculative Vacancies Defy Housing Affordability Pressures – Again 82,724 properties lie vacant and unoccupied across Greater Melbourne, according to Prosper Australia’s 2015 Speculative Vacancies Report released today. Key findings: • 4.8% of Melbourne’s total housing stock vacant in…
Published by the Australian Financial Review by Michael Bleby The number of empty houses and apartments in Melbourne is much higher than traditional estimates, with as many as one-fifth of all investor-owned properties lying empty, according to a study of water usage by…
Executive Summary Prosper Australia’s Speculative Vacancies Report demonstrates how Government housing, tax and supply policies have allowed widespread residential and commercial vacancies in Melbourne. Melbourne’s three main metropolitan water retailers, City West Water (CWW), South East Water (SEW), and Yarra…
Speculative Vacancies 8 – the Empty Properties Ignored by Statistics Wednesday Dec 9th, 6.30pm Presenter: Catherine Cashmore Venue: Our new premises – Level One, 64 Harcourt St, North Melbourne RSVP – limited seats Read the report Report author Catherine Cashmore has…
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Following our Parliamentary submission, Prosper Australia was asked to appear at the Select Committee into the Scrutiny of Government Budget Measures – 05 The transcript is now available. Transcript via Hansard CASHMORE, Miss Catherine, President, Prosper Australia FITZGERALD, Mr Karl,…
The chorus continues to grow for the inclusion of Land Taxes in the national tax debate. Economics editor for The Age Ross Gittins advocates his support for Land Tax in How to fix everything: Why? Partly because GST is a…
Published as The Planned Obsolescence of the Public Interest in Online Opinion A fascinating power play continues in the debate over vertical fiscal imbalance. The strategic intent is prevalent from federal to local politics, where the health of the public…