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Land Sales Volumes Fall – Good!
14 July 2011 MELBOURNE:- “Falling land sales further signal the ending of The Great Australian Land Bubble,” Prosper Australia Campaign Manager David Collyer said today. Australian land sales volumes have fallen for the last six quarters, according to Housing Industry...
Miners Gouge Australia Twice
photo credit: yewenyi “The mismanagement of both the federal tax powers and Australia’s natural assets by the Gillard government is sickening,” Prosper Australia Campaign Manager David Collyer said today. “They are allowing the miners to gouge our country twice.”...
Premier Baillieu – Victoria’s Tax Architect
photo credit: mugleyThe Baillieu government has just received a major report into Victoria’s economic efficiency that offers a clear path to redesign state taxes, advance living standards and make Victoria an absolute magnet for employment and investment. “Ted...
Property Market in Disorder
MELBOURNE:- The worst fears of real estate agents and property vendors has arrived: the orderly sale of property has broken down. A twenty year uptrend made Australian real estate ‘most severely unaffordable’ and a Ponzi scheme propelled by consumer debt. Prosper says...
A feast of houses – at the old price
2 June 2011 MELBOURNE:- Homes available for sale across Australia are up 68 per cent on last year while sales volumes have slipped dramatically. The real estate industry has immediately flipped its argument and is calling a ‘buyers market’. “Not so fast!” Prosper...
ABS Confirms Falling House Prices
The ABS House Price Index* released today confirmed house prices are falling, with both Brisbane and Melbourne down 2.5 per cent QoQ and the eight capitals down 1.7 per cent QoQ overall. “While the price fall is modest it confirms the new downward trend in house...
Negative gearing is our ruin
Negatively geared property investors have exposed themselves, our banks and the broader Australian economy to widespread capital destruction, says Prosper Australia campaign manager David Collyer. “The Great Australian Land Bubble has just burst. ‘Gearers will not be...
POP! The real estate bubble has burst
The Great Australian Land Bubble burst at 10.30pm AEST on Monday 11 April 2011, according to Prosper Australia campaign manager David Collyer. “The era of towering prices - of superhuman personal sacrifice by every young couple to fund a mortgage to buy a simple home...
Stale Stock Stacking Up
The number of homes offered and unsold for more than two months – known as stale sales – has ballooned across Melbourne, according to an analysis by Prosper Australia of figures released by SQM Research. “Don’t touch them! Maintain the Buyers Strike!” Prosper...
Trolls swarm ‘Buyers Strike’
“I warn FHB’s, the agenda of the trolls is to blow one more puff into The Great Australian Land Bubble so they can sell out before the inevitable crash.”
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