Five years on, the US economy remains sluggish after the bursting of a house price bubble. More recently, the focus has been on China, the world’s second largest economy, and whether it too might be overwhelmed…
Does the building industry have the enough capacity to increase the housing supply?
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We often hear that Australia is facing a housing shortage that is driving up property prices, but what is the best way out of this predicament?
In the final days of last year, National Housing Supply…
An "eco village" in the UK. With the right policies, energy-efficiency has a future in Australia.
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Mandatory energy efficiency ratings for houses have been in force in parts of the United Kingdom and elsewhere in Europe for some time and appear to have gained general acceptance. New homes in particular…
Our property prices are propped up by a range of political, economic and even emotional reasons.
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Welcome to Safe as Houses, a series delving into a topic close to the heart of many Australians – property. This is not a series on where the market might be heading. Instead we aim to explore how we view…
Bigger houses (on the left) - not smaller lots - are killing the Aussie backyard.
Tony Hall
Welcome to Safe as Houses, a series delving into a topic close to the heart of many Australians – property. This is not a series on where the market might be heading. Instead we aim to explore how we view…
Welcome to Safe as Houses, a series delving into a topic close to the heart of many Australians – property. This is not a series on where the market might be heading. Instead we aim to explore how we view…
Reducing the finance costs of housing will also reduce house prices.
Flickr/kennymatic
Welcome to Safe as Houses, a series delving into a topic close to the heart of many Australians – property. This is not a series on where the market might be heading. Instead we aim to explore how we view…
Buyers' playtime: Australians have splurged on mortgage debt.
Flickr/Bill Ward's brickpile
Our Safe as Houses series delves into a topic close to the heart of many Australians – property. This is not a series on where the market might be heading. Instead we aim to explore how we view property…
Interest rates would appear to be a national obsession: but are we worrying too much?
AAP
Welcome to Safe as Houses, a series delving into a topic close to the heart of many Australians – property. This is not a series on where the market might be heading. Instead we aim to explore how we…
Are ordinary homeowners perpetuating Australia's property bubble?
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While my recent commentary (here and here) demonstrates Australian housing is in a bubble, I have not explained where this situation has come from.
Asset markets, in this case, property, are the subject…
Farmers have been shocked to find coal seam exploration companies can enter their property.
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All over Australia, landowners are fighting to keep mining companies off their property.
From the Darling Downs to the Liverpool Plains, farmers have been locking out coal seam gas extraction companies…
House prices grew by 127% between 1996 and 2010, but few people believe there is a property bubble.
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One aspect of housing and stock market bubbles continually repeats: the vast majority of economists either miss or deny their existence.
In recent years, enormous asset bubbles have burst in many countries…
Could a housing bubble burst occur in Australia on the same scale as in the US during the financial crisis?
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By now it should be obvious to anybody who is not a banker or a real estate agent that Australia is in the grip of a substantial housing bubble.
The greatest housing-price rise in the history of Australian…
