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Australian property a hot target for foreign criminals
Ritualised Forms
3 months ago
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Housing YIMBYs always ignore immigration
Leith van Onselen
4 months ago
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Aussie housing inflation continues to fall
Wednesday’s monthly inflation gauge from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) revealed that housing inflation is falling fast, helping to lower trimmed mean inflation.
Leith van Onselen
4 months ago
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Housing industry ignores number one crisis solution
The Housing Industry Association (HIA) attacked Tuesday’s federal budget for failing to stimulate housing supply, describing the budget as “a missed opportunity to deliver a concrete housing plan”.
Leith van Onselen
4 months ago
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Australian property: an $11 trillion productivity drain
Data released this month by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) showed that the total value of Australia’s dwelling stock hit a record high of $11,032.2 billion at the end of 2024, with the average dwelling valued at $976,800.
Leith van Onselen
4 months ago
13
Population forecasts exacerbate housing crisis
The Albanese government’s first budget, released in October 2022, forecasts net overseas migration of 470,000 over its first two financial years (2022-23 and 2023-24).
Leith van Onselen
4 months ago
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Labor leverages taxpayers into housing bubble
There is no limit to the insanity the federal government will go to to pump the property ponzi.
Leith van Onselen
4 months ago
9
Industry groups sound alarm on housing supply
Developer lobbyists, the Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA), and building materials supplier Brickworks have rubbished the Albanese government’s target of building 1.2 million homes over five years.
Leith van Onselen
4 months ago
10
Value seekers drive Melbourne house price rebound
According to CoreLogic’s most recent monthly house price report, Melbourne was the cheapest major capital city property market, with a median price of $772,561 as of February 28, 2025.
Leith van Onselen
4 months ago
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Record international students send shockwave through rental market
The Department of Education released data on the number of international students studying in Australia.
Leith van Onselen
4 months ago
33
More apartments mean less trees and hotter cities
The Albanese government has set a fantastical target of building 1.2 million homes over five years.
Leith van Onselen
4 months ago
3
Australian homebuyers embrace ‘forever mortgages’
Australian housing affordability is at an all-time low.
Leith van Onselen
4 months ago
18
Baby boomers win Property Monopoly
The latest House Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) survey, conducted by the University of Melbourne and the Melbourne Institute, showed an increasing wealth disparity throughout the country.
Leith van Onselen
4 months ago
More shoebox apartments won’t lift productivity
The Guardian’s Peter Mares penned a spurious article claiming that building smaller homes would boost Australia’s productivity.
Leith van Onselen
4 months ago
5
The human face of Australia’s rental crisis
MacroBusiness has been vocal about Australia’s immigration-driven housing crisis for years.
Leith van Onselen
4 months ago
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Sydney leads house price upswing
CoreLogic’s preliminary auction results reported a clearance rate of 71.4% for Sydney.
Leith van Onselen
4 months ago
13
Let King Trump sweep our universities clean
It is one of those marvels of the globe economy.
David Llewellyn-Smith
4 months ago
15
Bargain hunters descend on Melbourne property
CoreLogic’s latest monthly house price report shows that Melbourne is now the cheapest major capital city housing market with a median price of $772,561 as of 28 February 2025.
Leith van Onselen
4 months ago
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Australian housing supply falls further behind target
The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released its estimated count of Australia’s dwelling stock as of Q4 2024.
Leith van Onselen
4 months ago
5
Australia can no longer manufacture windows for homes
Australia’s last major plastics manufacturer, Qenos, closed last year due to high energy costs.
Leith van Onselen
4 months ago
14
Increasing home ownership requires fewer investors
A new report by the Australian Council of Social Service (ACOSS) claims that the capital gains tax (CGT) discount and negative gearing “disproportionately” benefit Australia’s wealthiest while also fuelling the housing affordability crisis.
Leith van Onselen
4 months ago
1
Aussie renters gaslit on migration impacts
Recall the latest rental affordability report from PropTrack, which showed that rental affordability was the worst on record in Q4 2024, with lower-income earners hardest hit.
Leith van Onselen
4 months ago
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Southerners fuel Brisbane’s house price boom
CoreLogic’s February housing market report contained the following graphic on dwelling value growth across Australia’s major capital cities.
Leith van Onselen
4 months ago
5
Victorian government cuts public housing amid homelessness crisis
The ABC recently produced the following chart, showing the lack of social and public housing in Victoria.
Leith van Onselen
4 months ago
12
Australia’s rental crisis averted?
Last month, SQM Research released data showing that the national vacancy rate fell to just 1.0% in January 2025, down 0.1% year-on-year.
Leith van Onselen
4 months ago
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