Do affordable housing projects drive down property values? Does neighbours’ quality of life suffer? Case studies in Brisbane and Sydney suggest such fears aren’t justified.
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The community needs affordable housing and that requires meaningful targets for new developments. The only ones who will lose out are landholders who make windfall profits from rezoning.
China’s private property market is to blame for rising debt, not government owned or controlled businesses, new research shows.
A panel of experts on housing respond to Treasurer Scott Morrison’s speech on improving the supply of housing in Australia.
Just when you thought wind farms were bad for house prices everywhere, a new piece of research from Scotland suggests otherwise.
There are still a number of factors pointing to the risk in Australia’s housing market that the Reserve Bank hasn’t noted in its latest risk analysis.
People who engage in rent-to-buy schemes might not be protected under law and are often left in unaffordable situations.
If the sharing economy is here to stay, planners and designers must respond with imagination to spread the positive effects of the tourism economy for the benefit of residents as well as tourists.
The Sydney property market creates shocks that spill over to other capital cities, and Hobart is the worst affected, new research shows.
We are hearing dire warnings from property interests fighting against changes to negative gearing. But what if Labor’s proposed changes actually support demand for the flood of new properties?
The default position for politicians is to sound concerned about housing affordability, but do nothing. This can be explained by the idea of ‘policy capture’, in this case by industry interests.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has warned that Labor’s negative gearing policy would deliver “massive shocks” to the residential housing market and drive all investors away. Does that claim stack up?
The results of changing negative gearing are not as straight-forward as the government suggests.
Much more can be done to protect Australia’s property market from international criminals seeking to wash their proceeds.
Vested interests benefit from the illusion of unsettled academic debate.
Lessons from the sharing economy could provide a housing solution for both buyers and sellers.
There are well-rehearsed arguments both for and against removing negative gearing from property.
First home buyers looking to break into the housing market are turning to their parents, but it’s not a risk-free proposition for either party.
Despite valiant efforts by commentators such as Bernard Keane and Michael Pascoe to slay claims that Chinese buyers are making it harder for ordinary Australians to enter the housing market, the notion…
Just 43% of Germans own their homes – one of the world’s lowest rates. This reminds us that housing tenure has little to do with economic and social policy performance. So is the UK set to continue its…
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Emeritus Professor, Urban Planning and Policy, University of Sydney
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Head of Urbanism and Associate Professor of Urban Studies, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Professor of Urban and Regional Planning, University of Sydney
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Professiorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Emeritus Professor of Housing, UNSW
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Emeritus Professor of Housing and Housing Studies, RMIT University
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Professor of Housing Economics and Director, UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence, University of Glasgow
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Curtin University
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Director and Professor, Australia-China Relations Institute (UTS:ACRI), University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, Geography and Urban Studies, Western Sydney University
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Research Fellow - Henry Halloran Trust, University of Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW
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Professor Allan Fels, Professor of Law, Economics and Business at the University of Melbourne and Monash University., The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Urban and Regional Planning, University of Sydney