Two shows related to the event were recorded for Renegade Economists radio: Safe as Houses - an interview with Joel Pringle & Marcus Westbury An edit of the live recording from the event. Australian’s for Affordable Housing, Prosper Australia and Renew Australia...
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Saul Eslake @ 122nd Annual Henry George Commemorative Dinner
Link to presentation Saul Eslake is one of Australia's most highly respected economists and a renowned critic of Negative Gearing: "In my view it is impossible to conclude that negative gearing serves any purpose than to allow wealthily affluent tax payers to defer...
HIA should advocate inexpensive land
MELBOURNE:- Very poor residential land sales have prompted fresh pleading for the construction industry by the Housing Industry Association today in ‘Land Sales Signal Slow Home Building Recovery’ as new home buyers remain unwilling to commit at current high land...
Victorian Values
‘A Guide to Property Values 2012’ by Victoria’s Valuer General was released July 5. It has been comprehensively ignored. The report dissects property transfers and prices lodged with the titles office. This dataset is the actuals, the definitive historical record, and...
A sore lesson from housing history
It is often said those who fail to understand the mistakes of the past are bound to repeat it. In one area, this holds spectacularly true: the residential real estate market. History has shown time and again the fortunes of Australians are closely linked to the...
Carrots for Baby Boomers
16 May 2013 MELBOURNE:- The federal budget initiative to omit conveyancing Stamp Duty for retirees down-sizing to a smaller home acknowledges just how destructive and behavior-distorting this vile tax is, says Prosper Australia. “This is a disgusting, economically...
Doctoring the supply – the housing fix we are forced to ignore
As published in Online Opinion 18/04/2013 Owning a home is a fantasy without $70,000 in savings. This is simply not possible on an average wage. The debate heated up with Tom Whitty's statement ”You have to ask, if those being duped are too naive to complain, and...
Land Bubble, Tax Bubble
by Bryan Kavanagh reposted from On-line Opinion I'm constantly told Australia's land prices are astronomically high because of our high rate of immigration and the shortage of supply of residential allotments So, it seems the price of a block of land has simply...
Englobo II: The Money Sleeps
A fact-free defence of urban planners in The Conversation yesterday has left me fuming about how this group is immersed in process and blind to The Game being played around them. The Game boosts land prices, creates serviced land shortages and impoverishes all...
Listed Developer Englobo Holdings
7 March 2013 Prosper Australia today issues its update of ‘Englobo’ holdings of listed property developers (attached), as revealed in their audited half year accounts recently released to the Australian Stock Exchange. Based on last year’s sales - the current...