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Speculation, housing supply and prices

Speculation, housing supply and prices

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...

The Second Interval – The Evaluation in Brief

The Second Interval – The Evaluation in Brief

Evaluating the ACT’s 20 Year Land Value Taxation transition after 8 years The ACT’s 20 year transition is paying dividends, but not necessarily of the sort we expected. The motivation for this tax transition was to improve the predictability, efficiency and equity of...

Funding for research into economic rents vital

Last night saw the launch of the Prosper Australia Research Institute. A vibrant crowd attended our LSX headquarters to hear the detail behind Prosper's new deductible gift recipient entity. This was an important historical event with a sense of timing.  77 years...

PARI Launch event

Thursday, May 21, 6.30 - 8pm LSX, 285 Lennox Street, Richmond RSVP The launch of the Prosper Australia Research Institute (PARI) is nearly here! Science can elaborately finance research into the God Particle, we can boast about new advances in Quantum Computing, but...