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The federal government has set an ambitious target to build 1.2 million homes over the next five years, with many of these homes to be apartments. However, Cities People Love says reports of small, dark and claustrophobic apartments are common.

$800 a week for that? The battle for better apartment design

Australian cities are building up. But are developers designing spaces that people actually want to live in?

  • Courtney Kruk

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Anthony Albanese surveys a new home being built in suburban Melbourne during the election campaign. His governnment is on track to all 262,000 homes short of its 1.2 million target.

Albanese vowed to build 1.2 million homes. His own agency shows him falling well short

Australia remains in the grip of a housing crisis and the government’s own independent adviser can’t see an end in sight.

  • Shane Wright and Millie Muroi
The state government’s planning changes could have a major impact on Melbourne’s cityscape.

Melbourne’s character and liveability is being bulldozed – we should all be alarmed

Robert Hoddle, who designed Melbourne’s grid, would be turning in his grave. This is not how we build a better city.

  • David Vorchheimer
There are thousands of homes across Brisbane sitting empty. How many empty houses are in your suburb?

The Brisbane suburbs where hundreds of homes are empty

Prime real estate is sitting empty in some of Brisbane’s most sought-after suburbs, while thousands more homes are being used as secondary residences.

  • Marissa Calligeros
remier Jacinta Allan, Minister for Planning Sonya Kilkenny and Treasurer Jaclyn Symes at a construction site in the Docklands on Wednesday.

Wealthy cash in on stamp-duty discount meant to help young home buyers

Buyers of luxury homes have saved up to $1.1 million through a state government tax break intended to spur construction of affordable apartments.

  • Daniella White
Crash Claim’s Loftus Crescent car park.

This block should be housing. Instead, it’s a car yard

This unassuming Homebush block of homes and units was demolished almost a decade ago to make way for more housing. So why has it fallen into “urban decay”?

  • Jessica McSweeney
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The path to marriage has been far from smooth for King Charles III and Queen Camilla.

King Charles’ firm The Crown Estate closes in on deal with Australian property giant

The Crown Estate is one of the UK’s largest property managers, controlling half of the UK’s coastline.

  • Simon Johanson
Sydney’s housing crisis.

Labor played the Medicare card in its victory. Now it wants to own housing

NSW party heavyweights want to elevate housing to a “cause not a policy” and reject NIMBYism.

  • Alexandra Smith
A property commentator says the housing crisis has its root cause in governments gouging the property sector with higher taxes

Perth’s property slump: Data reveals more than half of suburbs in ‘negative’ trend

More than half of Perth’s suburbs are now in decline, with property sales sliding and former boom towns turning into real estate bust zones, new data reveals.

  • Sarah Brookes
Joondalup Resorts’ plan is for the area’s “desired future character”. But residents nearby are more worried about the area’s current character.

Joondalup Resort forms new northern front in Perth density debate

Planners welcomed a major residential development as appropriate for the area’s “desired future” character. Others are worried about the current character.

  • Emma Young

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