Capital choice.
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Pro-infrastructure and pro-enterprise, the newly-elected mayor has the policies to keep London a global financial centre.
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Noisy tourists are putting a strain on Berlin’s rental market.
What’s in the Turnbull government’s first budget for cities, defence, social services, the ABC and more?
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May 3, 2016
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On reform, the 2016-17 budget is a holding one, with tinkering on the sides.
The International Monetary Fund estimates that Australia’s houses are overvalued by around 10%.
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Ballooning borrowing to invest in the housing market is impeding investment in the real economy, holding back investment in skills and jobs, and driving up inequality.
Homeless young people have a significantly higher prevalence of adverse health issues and greater levels of contact with the justice system.
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A new report’s findings provide a strong economic rationale for investing in early intervention to stem the flow of young people into homelessness.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has turned his back on any meaningful reform to the way Australia taxes housing.
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The elephant in the room is the difference between those who own and those who rent their homes.
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The tea and crumpets vision of Englishness that Capability Brown brings to mind does him an injustice.
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull wants the states to overhaul their tax systems.
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It makes sense for the federal government to grease the wheels of federal-state tax reform.
Home safe?
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Here’s why you shouldn’t blame local authorities for the failure of government contractors.
New housing finance is now contracting quickly.
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Where investment loans were the fastest growing category of housing finance at the end of 2015, it is now the leading area of contraction.
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There’s capacity for 220,000 new homes where many people least expect it.
Maybe not, if you work on Wall Street.
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Falling homeownership rates, stagnant wages and diminishing retirement savings mean that for more and more Americans, the middle-class dream is slowly dying – if it’s not already gone.
Dumb-o.
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While New York clings firmly to its system of rent control, London’s housing market has changed too much to re-introduce them.
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Why putting a price ceiling on rent is not the answer to a city’s housing problems.
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There’s loads of advice out there on how to save energy. But how much of it is based on real scientific evidence?
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The housing crisis has scuppered home ownership dreams for many across the UK, but there is another way to do things.
Before entering politics, Scott Morrison was employed to develop policy for the Property Council of Australia, which is now leading the charge against negative-gearing reform.
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The default position for politicians is to sound concerned about housing affordability, but do nothing. This can be explained by the idea of ‘policy capture’, in this case by industry interests.
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It’s not just a matter of numbers: asylum seekers need houses where they can feel at home.
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It is 2016 but, when it comes to housing, in many ways it could actually be 1891.
Negative gearing: the perfect fixer upper?
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Negative gearing is not the housing saviour those in the industry claim it to be.