We found people who own their home outright were 1.5 times as likely to be highly satisfied with life as renters. But it can be a different story if you have a mortgage – especially if you’re 50-plus.
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Black would-be homeowners pay the price when big investors buy up the neighborhood.
Big-spending Chinese tourists once buoyed the global travel industry. But with Chinese economy looking a little shaky, more are staying at home.
China made it much harder for money to leave the country in 2017. Our study looked at Sydney home prices before and after that crackdown – and these are the suburbs where we found prices changed.
A new tax-free savings account could play a role in making the dream of home ownership more attainable for first-time buyers in Canada.
Infrastructure that links mines to ports isn’t enough – it needs to be accompanied by policies that encourage productive investment in factories.
Overconfidence and other cognitive biases help to drive up real estate prices. Here are three techniques used by real estate agents to exploit those biases.
In order for Canada to overcome the housing affordability crisis, individuals, families, the real estate industry and government all need to work together.
Urban spaces are a repository of people’s beliefs, memories and collective conscience.
Neither NSW Labor nor the NSW Coalition is actually proposing to axe stamp duty. Neither are any of the other states or territories, apart from the ACT.
Having the ability to decide either to do something or not, and to act accordingly, is a basic definition of freedom. Smart buildings challenge this freedom.
House prices are dipping fast in many areas of the world. Is this a normal stage in the market fluctuation, or the sign of an imminent crash?
Miami is often held up as an example of ‘climate gentrification.’ But a closer look finds a bigger driver of flashy new developments in low-income neighborhoods.
With 30-year fixed rates hitting a 20-year high of 7%, a finance scholar explains where these life-altering loans originated.
More than 22 million people currently live in Florida following a century of rapid growth.
What is real estate actually worth? It depends a lot on who you ask and what method they use to work it out.
Even when they offer similar listings, female hosts tend to charge less than their male counterparts.
New York’s lawsuit against Trump could mean he and three of his kids are prevented from operating a business again in the state – but the IRS will determine whether federal tax crimes also took place.
The big increases quoted are for “asking rents”. The rents paid by existing renters are climbing more slowly.
Telling people they have a flood risk rating of 10 is less powerful than explaining how much they’re likely to pay to deal with flooding over the next five years.
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PhD Candidate, Swinburne University of Technology
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Program Director, Economic Policy, Grattan Institute
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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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Research Fellow - Henry Halloran Trust, University of Sydney
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ARC Future Fellow & Professor of Economics, Curtin University
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Visiting Fellow, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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Assistant Professor, Hill and Levene Schools of Business, University of Regina
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Professor, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, School of the Built Environment, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Housing Research and Policy, and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
