BLOG: Home Buyer’s Strike

First Home Buyers Sink

photo credit: Gianni Dominici Letter to the Editor - The Age April 2nd, Karl Williams, Tecoma First home buyers sink WHATEVER you think of the ''buyer's strike'' aimed against buying homes at the top of the property cycle (Buyers strike goes viral), the time must...

What We Want – Buyers Strike

The Home Buyers Strike was launched to warn prospective home owners that now is not the time to enter the market. Sign our Total Abstainers Pledge so we can demonstrate that this is a genuine movement for people who expect that housing is a human right, not a...

Home Buyers Strike on Red Symons ABC

photo credit: patries71 Our campaign made ABC prime time radio at 7.22am this morning. In good humour Red Symons begins the interview with "I'm completely and utterly against whatever you are standing for!". Listen to our campaigner David Collyer explain why now is...

Buyers Strike “Irresponsible”

“Two secure jobs and a good deposit are no longer enough to buy a home. First home buyers must make a life-long vow of poverty as well. It is irresponsible to expect such a sacrifice,” Collyer said. “Do not underestimate their anger and frustration at being denied land ownership and its civic benefits.”

Land Prices Outstrip Wages 2 – 1

Since 1996, residential land prices have raced from 110 per cent of GDP to nearly 220 per cent of GDP. Meanwhile, wages have declined modestly against GDP. “First Home Buyers’ incomes have simply not kept up with the strong rise in land prices. Here is the proof,”...

Buyers Strike Day 3

“Thousands of would-be homebuyers have committed themselves to Prosper’s Buyers Strike and are now standing out of the market,” Prosper Australia campaigner David Collyer said today. “Our call for a buyers strike has gone viral over the internet – spread far and wide...

Prosper calls for Buyers Strike

Sign the GetUp petition Join the Facebook group Tax reform group Prosper Australia today called on first home buyers to delay buying real estate ahead of the flip into a falling market, which it described as ‘imminent’. RP Data reports there are over 900 Melbourne...