From the CEO The alarm bells are ringing increasingly louder amongst our industry. Worker shortages & supply chain impacts have been an issue for some months but are now resulting in projects being significantly delayed or shelved. Combined with a rental vacancy rate in Perth of 0.7% and only 6,500 established properties on the market, […]
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The West Australian There are calls for drastic changes to stamp duty to help lure landlords back in to the market — to help ease the rental crisis — after a 75 per cent fall in investor finance in WA over the past five years. The Urban Development Institute of WA is calling for a […]
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DEFINING HOUSING AFFORDABILITY HAS CREATED A CHALLENGE FOR ACADEMICS, INDUSTRY AND GOVERNMENT OVER MANY YEARS WHILE RANKING THE AFFORDABILITY OF CITIES IS EVEN MORE CHALLENGING WITH OVER SIMPLIFICATION BEING THE MAJOR ISSUE. Measures such as dividing median house price by median income to provide comparison gives an indicator of housing affordability but it is only […]
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