Tarric Brooker

Tarric is an Australian freelance journalist and independent analyst who covers economics, finance, and geopolitics. Tarric is the author of the Avid Commentator Report. His works have appeared in The Washington DC Examiner, The Spectator, The Sydney Morning Herald, News.com.au, among other places.

Canada’s rents fall as Australian rental crisis continues

Over the decades of available data going back to the 1980s, there have been three major departures from the trend on the metric of additional working-age persons (civilians 15 and over) per additional dwelling completion.

Australia’s migration boom crushed productivity growth

When the pandemic first arrived on Australia’s shores in early 2020, it set off a fascinating economic experiment on a grand scale: what would productivity growth look like without not only high migration but no migration at all?

Labor and Trump agree on something, house prices must go up

As housing prices continue to fall over an increasingly large proportion of the country, the Albanese government continues to insist that it wants higher housing prices.

Australia’s migration data may be missing the full housing story

Earlier today we got the latest net long term and permanent arrivals data from the ABS.

Australians say lower house prices are best for the country

In the most recent YouGov poll, the nation’s electorate was polled on one of the most controversial questions of our age, housing prices.

The Coalition abandoned home ownership. Voters abandoned them.

Victoria gets ripped off for tens of billions of dollars

In explosive revelations reported by The Age, Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan’s Chief Infrastructure advisor confidentially estimated that the cost of rorts and rip offs could be as high as 30% on parts of Victoria’s ‘Big Build’.

Westpac says negative gearing changes will boost home building

As the debate over the changes to negative gearing and the capital gains tax discount continues, one of the major points of contention is the impact on new home building.

Australia’s rents were soaring long before the budget

Since the Albanese government announced that negative gearing and the 50% capital gains tax discount would no longer apply to properties purchased from budget night onwards, the issue of the changes impact on rents has been a major point of discussion and contention.

Canada moves to stop house prices falling

Since Canada slashed net overseas migration from it’s peak in the March quarter of 2024, one of the last major remaining pillars supporting the already vulnerable Canadian housing market has been removed, leaving it on increasingly risky ground.

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