Commentary
Housing supply, planning, tax and feasibility — analysis written by Max and republished from LinkedIn.
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This is a welcome change for industry, noting the reinstated concession has been in place since October 2024 and has, to-date, made little to no difference to off the plan purchases and commencements.
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This initiative proposes to speed up approvals for sustainable apartment and townhouse developments deemed worthy enough by the Minister for Planning and the Office of the Victorian Government Architect.
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New posts from Clare O’Neil highlight the Government’s plans to deliver 55,000 social & affordable homes through the HAFF and Housing Accord, whilst also criticising the Coalition and Michael Sukkar’s record on social & affordable housing.
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As someone who has consistently voiced concerns about the State’s current housing policies, I want to clarify to David Davis and the Liberal Party of Australia (Victorian Division) that there is no “cosy” industry relationship with the…
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Western United has had enormous in-game success given its short existence (not least of which because they stole the Team 11 colour scheme!).
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And sometimes even the best need a fact check. Alan’s overarching theme is right, namely that other things need fixing before stimulating demand.
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(For those who don’t know, an Area Plan is an overaching master-planning document which sets out the principles for a proposed development area in the NT).
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As I predicted, housing starts for the year ended up lower than 2023 – 52,054 for 2024 (against the housingstatement target of 80,000) vs an already terrible 52,441 in 2023. The last time we saw so few starts was in 2013…
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Some more great work from Richard Temlett and Charter Keck Cramer, putting actual figures to the price gap between market capacity or expectation…
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Labor – New $10B over 8 years to build 100,000 homes for first home buyers. Expansion of the home guarantee scheme, with removal of $125,000 income threshold.