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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.
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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.
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The Toorak Times
Toorak has been in the news - only 5 properties are currently publicly advertised for sale in the exclusive suburb, ensuring scarcity delivers daunting prices. The Domain wrote in glowing terms about a $7m profit on a tennis court held over 20 years. It is not...
Changing the world
What's the problem? Class struggle? Population? Money? Debt? Banks? Something else? ‘Something else’ is more important than each of the others, but we always say it’s “too hard and will never happen!” And so we continue to plod along in an economic slough of despond,...
What silly kind of a tax raises no money?
Overseas buyers of Melbourne real estate have had to pay a Foreign Purchaser Additional Duty since mid-2015. The tax raised $133 million last year, according to official figures released to The Age under Freedom of Information. The newspaper tried to suggest this tax...