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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ABC Radio Perth Houses in Western Australia have long been built around a double-brick frame. But is it time we move to timber frames, like builders in the eastern states? UDIA WA CEO Tanya Steinbeck tells Russell Woolf and Nadia Mitsopoulos from ABC Radio Perth Breakfast why timber is now proven to be the cheaper, […]
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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 […]
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