Melbourne City Council is wringing its hands again over developer land vagrancy – prime sites deliberately held vacant or with disused, dangerous buildings to assist developer lobbying of government for rezoning or advantageous building permits. The issue last hit the...
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The Metricon Judgement
In March last year, the NSW Supreme Court set aside the NSW Office of State Revenue’s assessment for land tax in 2009-13 on certain lands at Terranora in the Tweed Valley held by Metricon. The developer bought the $60m aggregation to subdivide for residential use. It...
Does your SMSF have a goat?
Those with a Self Managed Superannuation Fund who hold englobo land in Victoria will need a fresh accessory after the state budget: a goat to eat weeds. Treasurer Tim Pallas has kindly extended the englobo wheeze that deems unimproved land within urban growth...
Metricon wins land-tax case – everyone loses
The national pastime of withholding land from use and enforcing scarcity has been boosted in the NSW Supreme Court when developer Metricon won a land tax case against the Chief Commissioner of State Revenue. Metricon successfully argued grazing a few cows to keep the...
The good ol’ boys clean up
Fairfax’s Michael Pascoe writes today about Murray & Frijters’ study Clean Money in a Dirty System: Relationship Networks and Land Rezoning in Queensland which found politically connected developers gained $410 million through favourable rezoning decisions in Brisbane...
The great land banking scam exposed
by Cameron Murray Property development can be a dirty business, particularly when it comes to land-banking, which is the speciality of Australia’s largest developers. Land-banking involves the speculative buying of large parcels of land that are currently unsuitable...
Land Banking Profits during a Housing Supply Crisis – Englobo 2014
Land in Australia should be dirt cheap. All levels of government must explicitly recognise outstanding access to land for all is a key national advantage that simply cannot be imitated by other countries. For state governments, close scrutiny of planning and a...
Englobo, Speculative Vacancies, the Wealth Illusion
Having trouble reading this newsletter? View it online. THE ENEWS OF PROSPER & EARTHSHARING AUSTRALIA OCTOBER 2014 Englobo 2014 Report Launch - tomorrow night Thursday, October 30th, 6.30 – 8pm Level 2, 22 Punch Lane, Melbourne Presenter: David Collyer RSVP,...
Englobo Report Launch, Thursday October 30th
Thursday, October 30th 6.30 - 8pm Level 2, 22 Punch Lane, Melbourne Presenter: David Collyer RSVP, donations appreciated Join us for the launch of David Collyer's investigations into the land holdings of Australia's largest property developers. Englobo 2014 - Land...
No Land for You, Melbourne
The Napthine government is determined to limit land supply and thereby further increase the cost of land for all in Melbourne.
The price of freshly subdivided land on the outskirts of cities reverberates and amplifies all the way to their centre. Constricting supply has profound implications.