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With memories of the circumstances that led to the GFC, it might seem that current investors would be interested in reducing their debt and financial risks. However 91���� research reveals that property investors with mortgage debt increased their consumption (that is the amount they borrowed or spent) after the GFC suggesting such investors are not as risk-averse as other homeowners.

Between 2006 and 2011, the rate of growth in Australia’s population (8.3%) was slightly lower than the rate that new households formed (8.6%). This indicates that although the population was increasing the new households kept forming at a faster rate, meaning that there were sufficient dwellings available and affordable for them to move in to and ‘form’ households in.

Australia’s Commonwealth, State and Territory Housing and Homelessness Ministers met in Adelaide recently to discuss a range of issues, including affordable housing; the new housing and homelessness agreement in the Commonwealth Government’s 2017–18 Budget; and remote housing.

With the Australian Government issuing a discussion paper in late 2016 into ‘Using value capture to help deliver major land transport infrastructure’, it is important to understand what value capture is and how it might be levied.

A new 91���� study has found that people who own or are paying off their home move less often than people who are renting privately, and this reduced mobility reduces their ability to respond to adverse labour market shocks (such as being made redundant) and may lead to higher rates of unemployment.