Economists have long advocated replacing stamp duty with land tax. We find that the implications for housing prices depends on whether you own a house or an apartment.
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Analysis of 5,500 apartment developments across Australia found many individual units were far below the average energy ratings for the complex as a whole.
Both major parties have policies aimed at helping low and middle income earners buy homes. But they’re both stopgap solutions – and too many buyers, renters and even investors will pay the price.
Labor’s scheme will get people into homeownership who would have otherwise missed out. The Coalition’s will get people already likely to buy into houses sooner.
Advertised rents have climbed 10% in the past year. A $250 boost to benefits and a six-month cut in petrol tax won’t much help.
A new form of conflict resource is real estate — the farms, houses, apartment buildings, villages, towns and cities of any country. Real estate trafficking has a big impact on civilian populations.
We asked 680 Florida real estate agents what they’re seeing in the market. Here’s what they said.
As demand grows for real estate and housing prices rise, more people are being priced out of the market. Government intervention is needed to produce affordable housing and control speculation.
Private companies rate all kinds of investments, from stocks to used cars. Now, they’re starting to analyze climate risks to local real estate – but how reliable are their findings?
More houses are under construction than ever before, but completions haven’t grown. Instead, building is taking longer.
The NSW Coalition government has backed a Labor proposal rubbished by the federal Coalition at the last two elections.
Behavioural control is poised to become a new resource for employers and the real estate industry.
The fine print shows its an inquiry into housing “supply”, but supply isn’t a particularly urgent problem.
The new rules limiting what banks can lend are aimed at real estate investors. APRA believes they’ll have little impact on first home buyers.
The fact that Canadian house prices have risen far beyond rental rates tells us that it’s due to financial factors alone — not a lack of supply. House prices are asset prices.
U.S. opportunity zones can positively impact real estate development and help local communities. But to fully realize the program’s potential, it needs reform.
Following the deadly collapse of a condo high-rise in Florida, a historian of this kind of housing explains how it offers a sense of community that many people seek.
In the formal real estate industry, there is an emerging narrative that affordable housing deficits in African cities represent a vast untapped market
An expert on condo management explains why associations should commission new studies that determine how much money they need to set aside for repairs every three to five years.
Luxe Listings Sydney is a hit; MTV Cribs is making a comeback. We all want a taste of how the other half live.
Top contributors
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PhD Candidate, Swinburne University of Technology
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Program Director, Housing and Economic Security, Grattan Institute
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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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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Emeritus Professor of Housing, UNSW
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Curtin University
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Research Fellow - Henry Halloran Trust, University of Sydney
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Scientia Professor of Economics, UNSW
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Associate Professor, Hill and Levene Schools of Business, University of Regina
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John Curtin Distinguished Professor, Curtin Business School, Curtin University
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Professor, Real Estate, Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM)
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Professor, Centre of Policy Studies and the Impact Project, Victoria University
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Senior Lecturer in Economics | Freelance Consultant, Sheffield Hallam University
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Lecturer in Global Urban Development, University of Manchester
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Professor, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne