Archive for the ‘Housing affordability’ Category:

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 »

Australia needs more intensity around population density

{ Posted on Apr 20 2011 by Tim Lawless }
Australia’s population is getting close to 22.5 million residents of whom about 64 percent live within the nation’s capital cities (about 55% live within the big four capitals) With such a large proportion of the population living on what is just ...Read More »

What’s in store for Darwin?

{ Posted on Feb 23 2011 by Tim Lawless }
Capital gains within the Darwin housing market have been outperforming the broader capital city average since early 2004.  Over the last ten years the growth rate has averaged 12.7% per annum which is well above the combined capital city average ...Read More »

Land Sales at their lowest level since the September 2000 quarter

{ Posted on Jan 20 2011 by Cameron Kusher }
Earlier this week the Housing Industry Association (HIA) in conjunction with RP Data released the Quarterly Land Report for September 2010.  The Report highlighted that land sales volumes were at their lowest levels in a decade and -57% lower than ...Read More »