If you were a powerful politician, there is a good chance you would make decisions that favour your mates.
- Research Fellow - Henry Halloran Trust, University of Sydney
HouseMate would sell homes for little more than the cost of construction, allowing the use of super for the deposit and mortgage payments.
Australian data suggest that prices do not fall when zoning is relaxed.
In some quarters, the median Sydney home earns more from capital gains than the median worker earns from wages. Now’s a good time to wind back the measures that push prices up.
Rezoning enormously increases the value of properties. Yet the developers who benefit don’t want to pay, in the name of “certainty”.
Super is inefficient, costly and directs money where it isn’t needed. There’s a way out.
When vested interests are attacked they create myths and battle plans. It’s the surest sign you are on the right track.
The conventional case for swapping stamp duty for land tax will boost the economy has weak underpinnings.
In Canberra you can build on land you don’t own, and it’s cheaper.
The financial institutions fronting the Financial Services Royal Commission are also the ones controlling mortgages, so will an expose of their dealings push property prices down?
William Isdale speaks with The University of Queensland's Cameron Murray about the nature of 'grey gifts', soft corruption, and who stands to win (and lose) when these deals are made.
Land value gains following the opening of stage one of the Gold Coast light rail project were worth around 25% of its cost.
Projects like Sydney’s WestConnex and Melbourne’s Western Distributor don’t account for real world evidence of driver behaviour in estimating travel time savings.
Vested interests benefit from the illusion of unsettled academic debate.
A study tracks how well-connected land-owners have benefited from favourable rezoning decisions. So what’s the best way to crack down on these cosy relationships?
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