THE WEST AUSTRALIAN The blunt message last week from Reserve Bank assistant governor Michele Bullock’s speech to the Urban Development Institute of Australia (WA) was that lending and development excesses have hangovers that take time to recede. The mood in the room was that WA developers were being unfairly crippled by tighter lending standards brought […]
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WE ALL KNOW THAT HOUSING IS BIG BUSINESS, BUT THE FIGURES REALLY DO MAKE YOUR HEAD SPIN. THE ABS THIS WEEK RELEASED THEIR HOUSING FINANCE COMMITMENTS DATA WHICH SHOWS THAT THE AMOUNT OF MONEY OUTSTANDING ON LOANS TO BANKS FOR OWNER OCCUPIED HOUSING IN AUSTRALIA REACHING A STAGGERING $840,955 MILLION IN SEPTEMBER WITH INVESTMENT HOUSING […]
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Business News. Chairman of the state’s peak planning body David Caddy will retire from the role by the end of 2024, after five decades of service in the sector. Mr Caddy has been chair of the Western Australian Planning Commission for six years, being appointed in 2018. He will retire from the role at the […]
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