by Paul Egan In the cult science fiction Matrix movies, people live within a simulated reality created by artificially intelligent machines who feed from their life energy; a dream world that has enslaved humanity due to a blissful lack of…
AHURI published Friday an important new research paper ‘The edges of home ownership’ about churn in the property market that deserves our close scrutiny and debate. Wood, Ong et al compare the UK and Australian experience of those leaving and…
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.…
The ANZ property economics team is out in the AFR today with a bold prediction of a rise in house prices. ANZ’s David Cannington is one of the most clear-eyed economists in Australian property and this forecast must be taken…
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…
22 October 2013 MELBOURNE:- Overnight, Australia’s property industry has endorsed removing Stamp Duty on property transactions, the AFR reports – a major tax policy shift welcomed by Prosper Australia. “Scrap Stamp Duty and fund this by also removing the principal…
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…