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The compulsory ‘retirement’ of Australian home ownership
By Dr Gavin R Putland The latest polls say I was wrong: Malcolm Turnbull’s sellout to the property lobby will not cost him the election.
Leith van Onselen
8 years ago
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Housing credit growth continues to slow
Leith van Onselen
8 years ago
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Hello REITs bubble
The Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) sector is one those Australia success stories that probably doesn’t get the accolades it deserves.
David Llewellyn-Smith
8 years ago
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RP Data: Home values up 0.6% in June
By Leith van Onselen Core Logic-RP Data’s dwelling price results are in for June, with a 0.58% rise in values recorded over the month at the 5-city level, driven overwhelmingly by Sydney and Melbourne (see next chart). It was the sixth substantive monthly rise in home values in a row (see next chart).
Leith van Onselen
8 years ago
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More negative gearing rents bunkum
By Leith van Onselen Boy am I getting sick of writing these negative gearing pieces.
Leith van Onselen
8 years ago
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Why urbanisation is mostly a suburban phenomenon
By Ross Elliott, cross-posted from The Pulse: The world is rapidly urbanizing.
Leith van Onselen
8 years ago
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Ah, Adelaide, nice wine, no economy, shrinking & expensive housing blocks
By Leith van Onselen I have written previously how the South Australian Government has managed to engineer the amazing feat of generating expensive land amid a dying economy.
Leith van Onselen
8 years ago
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HIA new home sales signal downturn
From the HIA: The monthly HIA survey of Australia’s largest volume builders reveals that total new home sales fell for a second consecutive month in May 2016.
David Llewellyn-Smith
8 years ago
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One in ten apartments selling for a loss
By Leith van Onselen From Core Logic-RP Data’s latest Pain & Gain report comes news that just over one in ten apartments transacted across Australia in the March quarter sold at a loss: As shown above, Sydney was the outlier, with almost every other market recording double-digit resale losses in the apartment space.
Leith van Onselen
8 years ago
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Macroprudential could restore balance to economy
By Martin North, cross-posted from the Digital Finance Analytics Blog: A snapshot of data from the RBA highlights the root cause of much of the economic issues we face in Australia.
Leith van Onselen
8 years ago
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PBO confirms negative gearing reform Budget bonanza
Leith van Onselen
8 years ago
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Syd/Melb house price-to-income ratio hits record high
Leith van Onselen
8 years ago
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Cormann comes up empty on housing affordability
By Leith van Onselen Finance Minister Mathias Cormann appeared on ABC Q&A where he was grilled on housing affordability: DANIEL COHEN: Yes, my question relates to housing affordability and tax reform.
Leith van Onselen
8 years ago
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HIA should have backed Labor’s tax reforms
Leith van Onselen
8 years ago
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Foreign property buyers turn to sub-prime
Leith van Onselen
8 years ago
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There’s a Melbourne apartment undersupply, you know
By Leith van Onselen There’s a a new contrarian on the block going by the name of Asian Pacific Group, which believes that Melbourne is actually facing an apartment undersupply.
Leith van Onselen
8 years ago
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Is Australian property a “safe haven”
The usual suspects at the AFR would have you think so: Nerida Conisbee, the chief economist at property-listing company REA Group, shrugged off a question that uncertainty created by the UK’s unexpected vote to leave the 28-nation EU bloc would trigger a sharp fall in Australian property prices.
David Llewellyn-Smith
8 years ago
15
Economists: cut negative gearing, not company tax
By Leith van Onselen Labor have been dealt a credibility boost in the lead-up to this weekend’s Federal Election with an overwhelming majority of economists surveyed by Fairfax revealing that they support Labor’s plan to unwind negative gearing over the Coalition’s plan to drop the company tax rate from 30% to 25%.
Leith van Onselen
8 years ago
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Auction clearances firm
Core Logic-RP Data released its auction market report yesterday, which posted a small rise in the national auction clearance rate.
Leith van Onselen
8 years ago
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A high-rise dog’s breakfast
By Michael Matusik Well, it is a dog’s breakfast in more ways than one.
Leith van Onselen
8 years ago
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Negative gearing and the children-overboard effect
By Dr Gavin R Putland Back in 2003, when I re-invented the policy of allowing negative gearing for new homes only, in order to stimulate construction and put downward pressure on rents, I didn’t intend it to be partisan.
Leith van Onselen
8 years ago
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Should Australia have a vacancy tax?
By Leith van Onselen With organisations like Prosper Australia and UNSW’s City Futures Research Centre showing that a large number of homes are being left vacant across Australia’s major cities, there have been growing calls to implement a vacant homes tax, as is being considered in Vancouver.
Leith van Onselen
8 years ago
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Primary school visa scam to choke housing, schools
By Leith van Onselen I wrote a damning article last week on how the Turnbull Government has opened a new immigration floodgate that allows international primary school students and their guardians to access Australian schools and purchase Australian property ahead of achieving permanent residency.
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8 years ago
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Xenoponzi “slum lord” slams negative gearing reform
Sigh: Independent Senator Nick Xenophon says the Labor Party’s negative gearing proposals go too far and he wouldn’t support them, but there may be a case for “very gentle tweaking” in close consultation with the property industry.
David Llewellyn-Smith
8 years ago
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Population ponzi versus the apartment glut
By Leith van Onselen With the ABS releasing its population data for the December quarter of 2015 yesterday, it’s an opportune time to once again examine how dwelling construction is tracking against population growth at the national and state and territory levels.
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8 years ago
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