This Month
Sydney could become a ‘city with no grandchildren’
Adding just three storeys to apartments built in the past six years could have saved Sydney renters as much as $1800 a year.
- Samantha Hutchinson
NSW to create youth agency as many young have ‘given up’ on a home
The announcement of a “youth voice” to represent Millennials and Gen Z came as a planning expert declared that Sydney no longer works for young people.
- Samantha Hutchinson
January
- Opinion
- Opinion
How to fix the housing supply nightmare
Housing has become an election fault line in Australia. But there are policy initiatives that could go a long way to retrieving the situation.
- Mike Zorbas
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Time to cut through the planning nightmare
Housing is becoming a political headache, perhaps an intergenerational tragedy too. Yet there are things that are in the hands of politicians to change.
- The AFR View
Cybersecurity the top headache for bosses as concerns over WFH fade
An annual survey by KPMG of 319 executives found that 43 per cent rated cybersecurity as their main worry, moving it up from third place last year.
- Updated
- Gus McCubbing
December 2023
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Why our top CEOs fear for the great Australian dream
The concern among top CEOs about the housing crisis reflects broader worries about inequality, productivity and growth in a slowing economy.
- James Thomson
The $225,000 containers Silicon Valley is banking on to fix housing
In the US’ most expensive metropolitan area for housing, city streets are getting tiny homes made from repurposed shipping containers.
- Nadia Lopez
November 2023
Terrace, duplex vision puts Minns on collision course with councils
Councils controlling low-density residential areas will be forced to allow terraces, duplexes, walk-up flats to be built.
- Samantha Hutchinson
- Opinion
- Opinion
Housing and migration have collided. One will have to give
The high immigration numbers are a temporary spike. But that does not help with the spectacular failure of housing supply to meet demand.
- Chris Richardson
Owners offered $10,000 to keep WA properties off Airbnb
The West Australian government says it can afford to offer incentives to property owners to help relieve the housing crisis, unlike indebted Victoria where a short-stay levy has been introduced.
- Tom Rabe
October 2023
Turning old hotels into homes may ease housing crisis
Australia’s housing shortage means the country needs more of a stock boost than it can build from scratch. And, there’s one ageing asset class that might help.
- Michael Bleby
Spike in credit cards and personal loan demand suggests pain ahead
Equifax holds credit data on almost 20 million Australians. Its international president, Lisa Nelson, says banks are monitoring unsecured loans closely.
- James Eyers
- Opinion
- Inside China
Flawed policies are intensifying China’s property market woes
Two years after Chinese property giant Evergrande defaulted on its debt, Chinese policymakers are struggling to come up with ways to stem the worsening real estate crisis.
- Karen Maley
September 2023
- Analysis
- NSW budget
The real challenge hiding in a low-key budget
The NSW budget’s promise of better service delivery is setting up a serious challenge for the new state government led by unassuming Chris Minns.
- Samantha Hutchinson
‘I’m not rich, I’m a single mum’: Airbnb tax hits property owners
Leanne Taylor is a 47-year-old solo mother of two teenagers who is battling to get ahead – something made harder by Daniel Andrews’ 7.5 per cent short-term rental tax, the first in the country.
- Patrick Durkin
