THE WEST AUSTRALIAN WA’s newly introduced foreign buyers’ surcharge was unlikely to help the State’s sluggish property market, Reserve Bank assistant governor Michele Bullock said. Ms Bullock told a UDIA WA function last week that in times of strong growth a surcharge would “take the edge off”. “I would only observe that given the WA […]
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ABC Federal Housing Minister Clare O’Neil has swung her weight behind a Business Council of Australia push for states to scrap stamp duty and ease the housing crisis by removing barriers to property transactions. “It’s a really good idea,” Ms O’Neil told ABC Radio National on Tuesday. “Stamp duty is a bad tax. It prevents […]
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AT A RECENT UDIA BREAKFAST, STUART DEVENISH, TECHNICAL DIRECTOR TOWN PLANNING AT RPS OUTLINED HIS IDEAS ON HOW WE CAN IMPROVE THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT PROCESS IN WA. Stuart believes that there has to be a better way to bring land and housing to the market. Over decades our planning processes have evolved in response to […]
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