This Month
Elizabeth Bay luxury tower development rejected
The Rolling Stones made a surprise appearance in a judgment backing residents in a fight with developer Fortis about housing needs.
- Michael Bleby
- Exclusive
- Chanticleer CEO poll
‘Australia is falling behind’: 55 CEOs demand election action
Top chief executives say the next federal government must make the nation’s crippling regulatory burden and housing supply top priorities.
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- James Thomson and Anthony Macdonald
November
- Exclusive
- Property development
Housing Australia’s Dal Bon goes from funding homes to building them
The inaugural head of Australia’s housing funding body has taken a new job with the ACT’s largest community housing provider.
- Michael Bleby
Construction workers should be 10pc of migration, big developers urge
That was one of the key messages from a housing roundtable that focused on how to remove roadblocks to increasing the supply of affordable houses
- James Eyers and Campbell Kwan
October
- Opinion
- Property development
Australia is getting serious about the housing crisis
Young people, parents and grandparents should all have a stake in fixing arguably the No.1 economic and social challenge.
- John Kehoe
Stamp duty cuts in Victoria will apply for foreign buyers
Centre for Independent Studies chief economist Peter Tulip argues the Victorian Labor is doing more to improve housing affordability than the federal government.
- Gus McCubbing
BCA urges $10b housing fund as building target slips
The Business Council of Australia wants the federal government to stump up cash to help states fix the bottlenecks holding back housing development.
- Gus McCubbing
Dutton raises housing stakes with $5b pledge to build 500k homes
Opposition leader says a government he leads would spend $5 billion on enabling infrastructure for housing, and ban changes to the national construction code for 10 years.
- Phillip Coorey
Name and shame plan to speed housing approvals won’t work, states say
Victoria, Queensland, WA and SA have rejected the idea of publishing the housing approval records of local authorities.
- Michael Bleby, Tom Rabe and James Hall
September
HAFF tender to build just 700 homes this year
The first allocation from the $10b federal government fund for social and affordable housing gave little detail about how many new homes will be created.
- Michael Bleby and Hannah Wootton
Senate showdowns loom over housing, RBA and the environment
The government says 13,700 affordable homes have been approved under the policies it has managed to legislate so far.
- Phillip Coorey
Social housing offers 8-12pc infrastructure-like returns
As Australia grapples with how to channel institutional money into new housing, the $10b HAFF fund offers a way to invest that Australia hasn’t had before.
- Michael Bleby
August
Push to ban Cbus from housing affordability scheme because of CFMEU links
Senator Andrew Bragg says the move is needed to protect taxpayer funds from the lawbreaking union until it is out of administration.
- Hannah Wootton
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- Wealth Generation
Where you can afford to buy without breaking the 30pc rule
See how suburb-level affordability across Australia’s three biggest capital cities has changed over the past three decades.
- Lucy Dean and Les Hewitt
July
Now it’s O’Neil v Chandler-Mather on housing
Clare O’Neil will take on selling the government’s housing agenda, which pollsters say has been drowned out by the Greens’ precocious spokesman Max Chandler-Mather.
- Jessica Gardner
AustralianSuper, Hesta look to supercharge housing investment
The industry super fund giants have taken shared ownership of Assemble, which develops affordable rental and for-sale housing.
- Michael Bleby
How building codes are crunching affordability
Energy efficiency demands and stringent accessibility rules are increasing the cost of building homes by tens of thousands of dollars.
- James Hall
Build-to-rent starts tumble as high costs take a toll
But by the end of the decade, build-to-rent housing could hit its next growth spurt, accounting for nearly 20 per cent of apartment starts.
- Nick Lenaghan
Queensland mulls expansion of stamp duty discounts in tax shake-up
Expanding stamp-duty concessions and overhauling land tax in Queensland will be considered as part of a new tax shake-up.
- James Hall
June
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- Property development
Developers rush to snap up $350m Qld fund to boost housing density
The industry has called for new tax incentives to increase housing supply following the mad rush to snap-up a development fund.
- James Hall