By Catherine Cashmore Follow Catherine on Twitter Cross-posted from Macrobusiness There’s been a lot of debate around property taxation in Australia; significantly negative gearing, which allows an investor to use the short fall between interest repayments and other relevant expenditure,…
As published in today’s Online Opinion The beauty of the disinformation is staggering. As house prices accelerate 7.6% nationally, poor housing supply continues to be blamed for the housing crisis. Meanwhile, the sixth Speculative Vacancies report found over 64,000 empty…
Renegade Economists podcast 314 Recorded at 3CR November 13th, 2013 Subscribe to the podcast on itunes. Listen to this show David Collyer joins host Karl Fitzgerald to discuss the state of Australian housing market. In the process we consider global…
Journalist Michael Janda conducted this interview with Philip Soos yesterday. The audio can be heard here. ELEANOR HALL: A report by property think tank Prosper Australia has found that tens of thousands of homes in Melbourne appear to be unoccupied.…
Housing policy remains in crisis as today’s 8 capital cities index revealed a rise of 7.6%, with Melbourne up 6.8%. “This heralds Victorian housing affordability policy a distinct failure. Never before have so many generous exemptions been given to the…
Executive Summary This Speculative Vacancies report has sought to measure the number of residential and commercial properties in Melbourne that are vacant and held out of use. Residential rents surged between 2007 and 2010, imposing financial stress on many tenants.…
Jason Dowling, City Editor at The Age wrote up our report in Southbank properties left high and dry, to be launched tonight: The Speculative Vacancies in Melbourne report, now in its sixth year, looked at water use data from Melbourne’s…
Thurs Oct 31st, 6.30pm Presenter: Philip Soos 2/22 Punch Lane, CBD RSVP What could thousands of empty homes do for affordable housing? Philip Soos is set to release our most comprehensive report, with over 94% of Melbourne’s residential property surveyed…
The new Liberal Federal government has boldly declared themselves the ‘infrastructure government’. This infers they have a method to finance the backlog of infrastructure demanded. Tapping superannuation as the source of cheap finance has been the proposed path forward. We…
In the Summer of 2013, the Centre for Economic Justice commissioned a documentary to discuss the relevance of LVT in the UK. ‘The Taxing Question of Land’ was launched at the Royal Society of Arts in September 2013. Complex tax…