The West Australian Community resistance and a lack of sizeable development sites are major barriers to medium density development in Perth. Perth and Peel@3.5m promotes higher density residential developments around activity centres, station precincts and along high-frequency public transport routes, to create housing diversity and choice. However, WA Planning Commission chairman David Caddy told an Urban […]
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realestate.com.au Many off-the-plan apartment buyers in Western Australia will wave goodbye to stamp duty under new changes aimed at boosting housing supply and encouraging new developments. Under the proposed laws introduced this week, homebuyers and investors purchasing off-the-plan apartments in multi-storey developments across WA will receive an immediate stamp duty discount worth up to $50,000. This will save property […]
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THE RECENT REPORT BY THE ECONOMIC REGULATION AUTHORITY INTO MICROECONOMIC REFORM INCLUDED A RECOMMENDATION TO ABOLISH KEYSTART, WHICH IS THE GOVERNMENT AGENCY THAT PROVIDES MORTGAGES TO ELIGIBLE PEOPLE TO PURCHASE NEW OR EXISTING HOMES WHO MAY NOT OTHERWISE OBTAIN COMMERCIALLY AVAILABLE FINANCE. The argument for the abolition of Keystart is premised on a very narrow […]
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