RENTAL PRESSURE AND DECLINING MORTGAGE COSTS DROVE HOUSING CONSTRUCTION IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA TO ITS HIGHEST LEVEL SINCE 2010 Data published by the Australian Bureau of Statistics today show dwelling starts in the September quarter 2012 increased a seasonally adjusted 23.6 per cent to 5,166, its highest level since December 2010. UDIA (WA) CEO Debra Goostrey […]
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SOMETIMES WHEN WE REFER TO DEVELOPERS MANY PEOPLE THINK OF BIG CORPORATE ENTITIES BUT THERE ARE MANY OF US INVOLVED AT A FAR SMALLER SCALE There are currently over seventy thousand lots with conditional approval from the WA Planning Commission wrapped up in 4,362 applications, which is an average of just over 16 lots per […]
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Financial Review The paucity of new policy in Jim Chalmers’ fourth budget raises the question whether the Albanese government has given up the fight on the so-called housing crisis. Worse, in a budget with weak new initiatives on housing, one proposal – “cracking down on foreign land banking” – would actually reduce the timing, and […]
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