Prosper’s Director of Research and Policy, Tim Helm, was interviewed by Cameron Murray for the Fresh Economic Thinking podcast on 9 November 2023. Their conversation covered the relationship between the prices of land and housing, how to define and measure...
A summary of recent research Speculation: it’s a Georgist obsession shared by few others. Landbanking, flipping, vacancy, delayed development, staged releases – how does any of this matter? Speculative behaviour tells of the market at work, allocating capital and...
Having trouble reading this newsletter? View it online. The enews of Prosper & Earthsharing Australia AUGust 2015 Miranda Stewart to speak at the 124th dinner Wednesday September 2nd, from 6pm The Royal Society of Victoria, 8 La Trobe St, Melbourne RSVP &...
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...
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...
The Melbourne City Council has been urged to apply differential rates “to sites defined as vacant or derelict” by its Future of Melbourne committee. They name to shame the Savoy Tavern on Spencer Street, the Argus building on Latrobe Street and bare land at 567...
Land in Australia should be dirt cheap. Outstanding access to land ought be a national advantage, generously conferred by a loving government upon its people.
David Collyer tells it as it is - Don't Buy Now - the housing market is faltering. Help get this urgent message out to prospective home buyers - do not buy at the top of the market. Do not believe property spruikers who have a vested interest in stating 'property...
You've got to love real estate spruikers. They are so consistent and always so wrong. David Morrell purports to be a buyers' advocate. On 5th March in The Age he was saying how you can't go wrong with "land banking" in Toorak. Well maybe. Land banking is the quite...
photo credit: Dean Terry If ever we needed any more motivation to burn the midnight oil, the Brumby government's latest handout to the property lobby is just this. Just nine months since he handed out free lunch with the 90,000 blocks of zoned land announced in March,...