Our latest Research
Pricing Development Rights: A game changer for housing affordability
By Tim Helm & Henry Williams
Governments across Australia are effectively giving away $11 billion a year to wealthy landowners by failing to put a fair price on development rights.
Read the paper.
The Land Cycle
By Catherine Cashmore
The Land Cycle explores the history of the 18-year land cycle and its implications for policy development. Read the paper.
Rent-Controlled Resources: Why are we under-charging Australia's mining tenants?
This report examines Australia’s resource royalties and the gains to be made by moving to a more flexible royalty model with variable rates
Speculative Vacancies 2025 data update
Our latest Speculative Vacancies data update reveals the extent of unoccupied housing in Melbourne.
Buying better income taxes with land taxes
Tax reform is more than changing income tax rates, it’s about shifting taxes off income altogether. This report explores one of the most recommended reforms.
Staged Releases: Peering Behind the Land Supply Curtain
In this report we ask whether the private choices of property owners to supply new housing according to market conditions works against the stated public policy outcome of supply-driven affordability through rezoning.
OUR LATEST NEWS
Speculative Vacancies 9 report launch
Tuesday April 9th, 6.30pm Level 1, 64 Harcourt St, North Melbourne Presenter: Karl Fitzgerald Prosper's controversial report is back to investigate the number of vacant properties flying in the face of the ‘supply crisis’. *** If you are frustrated at the vacant...
Finally, Negative Gearing oversight
Have you ever wondered what oversight is provided to ensure investors place their properties on the market at market rents? Or do some push rents higher so they fail to rent and NG writeoffs are accentuated? Recently the Greens senator Peter Whish-Wilson had the...
I need a pay rise. Something deep and structural…
For our collective angst over Australia's economic decline, wage growth is an indicator most dreadful. Look into the eyes of stagnating wages growth and see property markets crash, governments crumble, and hi-viz-vested citizens burning bankers in the streets. What...