WESTERN AUSTRALIA IS HEADING TOWARDS A SEVERE HOUSING SHORTAGE AS THE STATE CONTINUES TO EXPERIENCE RECORD POPULATION GROWTH. According to well respected economist, Paul Braddick from the ANZ, we are likely to be 90,000 dwellings short in Western Australia by the middle of this decade. According to the National Housing Supply Council we were already […]
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WA BUSINESS NEWS The state government will not consider pausing or scrapping its surcharge on foreign property purchasers, despite a sharp reduction in sales to offshore buyers and growing scepticism over whether revenue will meet projections. In January, the McGowan government instituted a 7 per cent tax on offshore purchasers of property in Western Australia, […]
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THE GRATTAN INSTITUTE’S LATEST REPORT, PRODUCTIVE CITIES, IS RICH IN STRONG CONCEPTUAL ARGUMENTS, BUT ITS FAILURE TO ADDRESS SOME OF THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN PERTH AND AUSTRALIA’S OTHER THREE LARGEST CITIES MAKES IT A SOMEWHAT SLANTED REPRESENTATION OF WHY PEOPLE LIVE WHERE THEY DO “If the structure of a city severely restricts access to jobs or […]
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