‘Buy here & we die here’: The 10 most tightly-held WA suburbs where locals lock in for as long as they can

The Weekend West Analysis by Research4 Director Colin Keane for the Urban Development Institute of Australia Western Australia (UDIA WA) has shown the WA property market is on the cusp of recovering. Speaking at a UDIA WA luncheon at Crown Perth last week, Mr Keane told a crowd of over 350 property industry professionals about […]

ABC Federal Housing Minister Clare O’Neil has swung her weight behind a Business Council of Australia push for states to scrap stamp duty and ease the housing crisis by removing barriers to property transactions. “It’s a really good idea,” Ms O’Neil told ABC Radio National on Tuesday. “Stamp duty is a bad tax. It prevents […]

OLDER HOUSEHOLDS HAVE BEEN, ARE AND WILL INCREASINGLY BECOME KEY PLAYERS IN THE MAINSTREAM HOUSING MARKET The founding and current chairman of the National Housing Supply Council, Dr Owen Donald, speaking at the recent UDIA National Congress stressed that it is therefore important to understand the residential decisions and behaviours of this cohort and its […]