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Housing price pain a tale of many cities
Saturday morning is a prime time for Melbourne house auctions. Over the past few weeks fewer hands have responded to the auctioneers' calls. House...
Change of climate an ill wind for carbon tax
THE Wall Street share market crash in October 1929 sparked off the Great Depression in the 1930s. Will Wall Street's latest financial collapse...
Sydney shuts the door on affordable average price
Australia is now at the top of the pack in terms of the shameful measure of housing affordability. House price collapses in Britain and California...
Regulations retard home ownership
Housing issues are always news in Victoria. Now we have resident action groups opposing new apartment building in inner suburbs. Moonee Valley was...
How to plan for a fiasco
For more than 50 years the average Australian was able to buy their first home on the average wage. Traditionally, the median house price was about...
State can't afford a home affordability crisis
From the Gold Coast to Cairns, local elections have delivered office to people whose platform was aimed at controlling (read ``preventing'')...
More land, lower prices - guaranteed
At the end of last year, the average Australian house sold for $471,000, according to the Real Estate Institute - a 12% increase on the year...
Land constrictions cause housing pain
Urban planners and politicians have vastly increased the cost of housing with plans such as Melbourne 2030. Last weekend, Demographia released its...
To lower the cost of housing, cut the red tape
The ALP's proposed tax concession for first-home buyers who have saved for a deposit may merely offset part of the excessive house prices they...
Government has levers to increase land supply, improve housing affordability
With Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd's pledge to "unlock" federal land for housing, the election campaign has already claimed one policy victim....