One question that arises on the topic of real estate is the scale of foreign investment and ownership in Australia. It is understandable that the public has concerns about such investment, especially as…
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Public housing tenants struggling with their bills will well understand NSW Community Services Minister Goward’s concern over the rising costs of nails and pots of paint. According to the minister, the…
We are most of the way through a very long budget season this year, beginning with Victorian Treasurer Kim Wells in May and is not due to end till Queensland Treasurer Tim Nicholls delivers his first budget…
A fundamental truism of economics is that if you tax something, you get less of it. Tax is thus a good place to start in seeking to explain why Australia’s housing market is chronically under-supplied…
We often hear that Australia is facing a housing shortage that is driving up property prices, but what is the best way out of this predicament? In the final days of last year, National Housing Supply Council…
In spite of what everyone believes through natural pride and vanity, the family house is an asset that depreciates. Don’t be deceived that the value of property goes up and up, which of course it does…
Welcome to Safe as Houses, a series delving into a topic close to the heart of many Australians – property. This is not a series on where the market might be heading. Instead we aim to explore how we view…
Welcome to Safe as Houses, a series delving into a topic close to the heart of many Australians – property. This is not a series on where the market might be heading. Instead we aim to explore how we view…
Our Safe as Houses series delves into a topic close to the heart of many Australians - property. This is not a series on where the market might be heading. Instead we aim to explore how we view property…
Welcome to Safe as Houses, a series delving into a topic close to the heart of many Australians - property. This is not a series on where the market might be heading. Instead we aim to explore how we view…
Like Australia, the United Kingdom accords a particular value to home ownership that extends beyond the mere provision of housing. We British like to think of ourselves as a “property-owning democracy…
By now it should be obvious to anybody who is not a banker or a real estate agent that Australia is in the grip of a substantial housing bubble. The greatest housing-price rise in the history of Australian…
Economists and physicists may seem like unlikely bedfellows, but then opposites often attract. Their union has recently produced a peculiar baby, a field of research known as “econophysics”. Physicists…
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PhD Candidate, Swinburne University of Technology
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Head of Urbanism and Associate Professor of Urban Studies, School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute
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Professor of Housing Research and Policy, and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Urban Policy and Director, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer, Research School of Economics, and Research Associate, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Australian National University
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Professiorial Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Adjunct associate, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor of Housing & Social Policy, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor in Urban Geography, The University of Melbourne
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Lecturer, Property and Real Estate, School of Management and Marketing, Deakin University
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Professor of Sociology and Director of the Housing and Community Research Unit, University of Tasmania
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Associate Professor of Project Management, RMIT University
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Emeritus Professor, Department of Political Economy, University of Sydney
