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The Cost of Living – Somewhere, Anywhere
photo credit: MarcelGermain Should I buy now or rent and save a bigger deposit while I wait? Houses cost money. How much should they cost? These are long-life assets and the price paid can change a lot. Good timing can lead to a lifetime of heavy debt repayment or a...
Tax reform is hard and dreary work.
photo credit: Cayusa Tax reform is hard for government: losers complain loud and long, while those who will benefit are suspicious and silent. We should be angry as hell about the tax system. It scoops up the earnings of the poor but merely nips at what the wealthy...
Turnover Dropping
photo credit: Praveen M Tomy Fans of Gavin Putland's work will have read today's piece on Housing Market Tipped to Weaken as Buyers Retreat. High auction clearance rates and record prices notwithstanding, official figures show the number of loans to buy houses in...
Housing Investors on Strike
photo credit: marfis75 That's essentially the message from the February Housing Finance figures. With the property market bubbling at extortionate levels, housing investors have decided to go to sleep at just the time they are most needed. In seasonal terms, housing...
Video: Asset Bubbles Forever
Phil Anderson from Economic Indicator Services giving us the state of the market via his unique analysis of the inter-relationship between real estate, share markets and commodities. The Asset Bubbles Forever event was held on Tuesday March 2nd, 2010. The proceeding...
Steve Keen the Property Prophet predicts doom and shows why.
Unconventional prophets are often vilified, particularly in their own country. Steve Keen is no exception. He is one of only a handful of academic economists to contest the rah rah rah of the property spivs who claim - wrongly and misleadingly - that real estate...
Crikey – Negative gearing
photo credit: Darco TT Letter to the Editor Crikey E-Newsletter Dr. Gavin R. Putland, Director, Land Values Research Group, Prosper Australia, writes: Re. "Kevin, will that be two terms, or four?" (yesterday, item 16). No, Nicholas Gruen, don't cap negative gearing,...
Six Factors to Flip Negative Gearing into Negative Equity – Someone’s Going to Get Hurt
The Australian Tax Office has released figures on the extent of negative gearing in Australia ahead of the Henry Tax Review. This is no accident. They are preparing the ground for Ken Henry’s changes. The picture drawn is not pretty: it shows the nation’s...
Solomon Lew makes a mockery of ‘working families’
The system gives the thumbs up to such activity, but we must alert you to the latest 'capital gains' success story trumpeted in today's Business Age (check p10*). Solomon Lew bought 151- 165 Franklin St (CBD) in 1982 for $810,000. He sold it recently for $30m. That's...
Put away that cheque book, home buyers
photo credit: UGArdener This morning, Reserve Bank of Australia Governor Glen Stevens appeared on Seven Network’s Sunrise program to talk up interest rates and talk down the property market. Using tabloid television to broadcast RBA views is unprecedented. It...
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