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20 Advantages Investors Have 27 Aug 2013 | 07:23 am
Investors now constitute 36% of all housing loans, up from 12% in the 80's, 19% in 1993 First Home owners borrowed $80K on average in 1993. Today it is $292K Baby Boomers own 47% of household wealth 1...
Bid me up, Buttercup 23 Aug 2013 | 01:00 am
The property price argument goes on and on. The already-invested need the next wave of ‘greater fools’ to blimp prices higher. They do not care whether this comes about through productivity gains, inf...
Property bubble? That’s the theory, anyway 9 Aug 2013 | 04:44 am
By Philip Soos Reprinted from The Conversation As Australian housing prices have boomed over the last decade and a half, there has been much discussion over whether a bubble exists in the residential ...
Cigarette Tax hike defies economic logic 7 Aug 2013 | 11:21 am
By Sam Oldfield, an economics student at Latrobe University and an Associate at Prosper Australia. The Rudd government’s sudden increase in cigarette taxes completely disregards sound economic practic...
Without revenue reform this is a pointless election 7 Aug 2013 | 06:39 am
By Bryan Kavanagh, Director Land Values Research Group Reposted from On Line Opinion So September 14 has become September 7? Would it be too churlish to think that’s about the biggest political change...
Rentals Brittle, Under Pressure 6 Aug 2013 | 07:36 am
Last week the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute (AHURI) held a seminar in Melbourne on the serious stresses on renter households that have emerged over the last twenty years. Dr Wendy St...
The Problems with Property 5 Aug 2013 | 07:39 am
Australian’s for Affordable Housing, Prosper Australia and Renew Australia present: The Problems with Property Is Australia’s property market permanently broken? House prices are over-inflated, rents ...
Saul Eslake @ 122nd Annual Henry George Commemorative Dinner 2 Aug 2013 | 10:14 am
Monday September 2nd, 6pm, Royal Society of Victoria, 8 Latrobe St, Melbourne Speaker: Saul Eslake on 'Housing Policy in Australia – 50 years of Failure' Saul Eslake is one of Australia's most highly ...
GetUp flunks economics again 2 Aug 2013 | 10:03 am
We tried to bring GetUp to speed with housing policy with our Dont Buy Now campaign. They ignored that and continue to ignore basic economic science. More money on a fixed planet is destined to raise ...
China: should land’s rental value be the basis of the tax system, or that of the financial system? 26 Jul 2013 | 06:52 am
by Professor Michael Hudson How can China avoid the “Western financial disease” – a real estate bubble followed by defaults and foreclosures? The U.S. and European economies originally sought to avoid...
