Archive for the ‘Housing affordability’ Category:

154 capital city suburbs with a median house value under $300,000

{ Posted on Dec 01 2011 by Tim Lawless }
There are plenty of affordable housing options across Australia’s capital cities; in fact there are 154 suburbs where the median value of a house is less than $300,000.   Adelaide suburbs comprise the majority of these ‘uber’ affordable locations, comprising 28% ...Read More »

Who’s got the biggest?

{ Posted on Oct 13 2011 by Tim Lawless }
When it comes to land area, size matters.  Or at least it used to.  More recently, with affordability pressures from a buyer’s perspective, yield pressures from a development perspective and urban management from a policy perspective, we have seen an ...Read More »

Act now or wait until later… regardless if you are buying or selling you need to be across changes to stamp duty and state level Government grants.

{ Posted on Jun 29 2011 by Tim Lawless }
Changes to stamp duty and state level grants will affect the timing of when you buy and sell property.  Make sure you are completely across the changes. Stamp duty regulations and availability of grants related to property purchases changed across many ...Read More »

Why Australia needs to drop the obsession with our capital cities

{ Posted on May 25 2011 by Cameron Kusher }
In last week’s blog Tim highlighted that the Sustainable Australia – Sustainable Communities, A Sustainable Population Strategy for Australia Report released by the Department Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities failed to meet its objective. Tim specifically noted, ‘The objective of ...Read More »

Housing remains in the too hard basket at budget time

{ Posted on May 11 2011 by Tim Lawless }
Once again, some of the key issues affecting virtually every Australian have not been addressed in the Federal Budget. Housing supply, and associated with that, housing affordability has again flown under the budget radar.  Is it simply that politicians don’t ...Read More »