Podcast: Chandler’s army ready for inspections
Don’t know if Building Commissioner David Chandler has a hotline to Santa but with the Building Commission being boosted from 40 to 400 inspectors, you’d have to think all his Christmas…
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Unit starts soar while house building slumps
Apartment building is booming with higher-density building starts up by almost 45 per cent in the first quarter of this year, at the same time as free-standing home builds are…
Podcast: Housing crisis advice that Albo can’t take
The housing crisis is still uppermost in many minds but there’s a new twist with a former Mirvac boss, now an advisor to the government, telling the Prime Minister to do something…
Podcast: Zooming in on connections lost in France
There’s a different sound to the Flat Chat Wrap this week, Firstly it was recorded over Zoom, then Jimmy seems to have acquired hay fever in the south of France,…
Podcast: Property price bounce, Qld confronts crisis
Queensland held a round table about housing and homelessness recently as the Sunshine State faces a similar crisis to the rest of Australia when it comes to a shortage of…
‘Dob in B&B breachers’ plan could boost housing
We are barely into spring but the annual summer short-term rentals spin-fest, postponed for a couple of years by Covid-19, is cranking up already. On one side you have Brisbane…
Few positives to negative gearing for first-timers
For all the talk of housing affordability at the recent election there was one obvious subject that barely rated a mention. But now that the dust has settled on the…
Election special: Home is where the votes are
With Australia’s political parties throwing promises of cash around like lottery winners who forgot they didn’t want publicity, our national housing crisis has been one of the more significant targets…
Podcast: Woman who married her cat – the facts
Sometimes the fur flies at weddings, and things can certainly get catty between landlords and tenants but, as we explore in this week’s podcast, a woman has taken things to…
Covid housing response ‘fast but patchy’ – report
National and state governments’ housing policy responses to the pandemic were fast and mostly effective but too often it was left to landlords and tenants to carry the weight of…
Pet-friendly housing helps everyone, says report
A new report backed by six Australian universities has concluded that having pets is good for both tenants and landlords. However, even though more than 60 per cent of Australian…
Profits of doom – can we afford not to build affordable housing?
In the heat of an election campaign when the threat to property investors’ tax breaks if Labor wins power is seen as a fundamental challenge to both house prices and…