Industry calls for stimulus in wake of rate cut

FIRST HOME BUYERS PLAY A CRITICAL ROLE IN THE PROPERTY MARKET BECAUSE THEY HELP TO “UNCLOG” THE MIDDLE MARKET. In a normal market first homebuyers are about 20 to 25 percent of the market but they are still running well above that level in some areas.  WA Treasury figures show that first home buyer activity […]

Australian Property Investor As Australia’s cities continue to grow outwards, the frictions between urban expansion and the encroachment upon native bushland and the environment have perhaps never been so precariously balanced. The pressures of population growth, a lack of housing supply, a rental crisis and property affordability issues all coalesce to fuel demand for new […]

THE WEEKEND WEST The State Government has “suspended work” on a long-running project to create a Green Growth Plan, to streamline WA’s Commonwealth and State land use approvals, because of concerns about costs and the impact on housing affordability. Planning Minister Rita Saffioti said work on the Strategic Assessment of the Perth and Peel Regions […]