Nearly 500,000 WA homes have at least one spare bedroom amid major housing crisis

The West Australian A major revamp and expansion of Perth’s rundown Convention and Exhibition Centre has been officially shelved, less than two years after it was embraced by the Cook Government as a “bold” vision. The West Australian has revealed that stakeholders were told on Wednesday that the Government intended to renege on the deal, […]

WHILST THE FUNDAMENTALS FOR A CONTINUED UPLIFT IN PROPERTY ACTIVITY ARE STRONG, PROPERTY MARKET MOMENTUM WILL BE MAINTAINED AND EXACERBATED BY EMOTIONAL FACTORS Strong economic growth, record population growth, a tight rental market, decreasing mortgage costs, falling property listings; the list could go on.  Even though the land development industry is largely not optimistic, these […]

NEGATIVE GEARING HAS AGAIN LEAPT INTO THE PUBLIC DEBATE AND ECHOES MUCH OF THE DISCUSSION IN THE MID-1980S WHEN THE ABOLITION OF THE TAX DEDUCTION WAS CONSIDERED BY THE HAWKE GOVERNMENT, ONLY MONTHS AFTER IT WAS INTRODUCED. The Income Tax Assessment Act 1936 was varied in 1985 to quarantine all property losses from deduction against […]