2024, ABC: How did Singapore achieve a home ownership rate of 90 per cent? Can Australia learn anything from it?
By Gareth Hutchens August 18 2024 The distinguished Singaporean economist Sock-Yong Phang, a globally renowned housing economist, was in Australia last week. The facts above come from a lecture she delivered in Melbourne on Thursday, as the keynote speaker at Prosper...
2024, AFR: The investor survival kit for property taxes
Robert Harley July 10 2024 “Land and resource taxation captures the value created by social demand (and) leads to greater resource efficiency and investment where it will make a positive impact,” says Rayna Fahey, spokesperson of research house, Prosper Australia....
2024, Age: Landlord rates could double under this councillor’s contentious housing proposal
Rachel Dexter June 11 2024 The independent policy institute, Prosper Australia, applauded the conversation around the role rates play in housing affordability, but warned speculators hoarding vacant land was a bigger issue than individual landlords. “From our...
2024, ABC: Why did land disappear from some economic models?
Gareth Hutchens April 7 2024 Why did land disappear from some economic models? In recent weeks, I’ve written a couple of articles about land tax and Henry George, the once-famous economist who advocated for better taxation of the economic rent of land and...Republish this article
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