Shh! Don't mention the public housing shortage. But no serious action on homelessness can ignore it
Oct 12, 2019 08:37 am UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
Today, October 10, is World Homeless Day. Next week the Council to Homeless Persons will convene the Victorian Homelessness Conference to discuss options for ending homelessness. On the program are presentations and...
Looking to rent a home? 6 things that will help or hinder you
Oct 09, 2019 11:25 am UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
Two-thirds of tenants in Australia rent through a real estate agent. A national shortage of private rental housing forces these tenants to impress the real estate agent to secure a property their application needs to...
Who's responsible for the smart city? Sidewalk Labs' proposal poses regulation challenges
Oct 09, 2019 11:23 am UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
Sidewalk Labs nearly 1,500-page Master Innovation and Development Plan was released in June 2019. The document exhaustively detailed proposals for a smart city on Torontos eastern waterfront. Following nearly two years...
Yes, house prices will rise with lower interest rates, but that's not the only effect
Oct 04, 2019 14:37 pm UTC| Insights & Views Central Banks Real Estate
With the Reserve Bank of Australia cutting official rates to 0.75% on Tuesday, has been a wave of commentary about the move doing little to help the economy apart from boosting housing prices. There are two parts to...
Truly smart homes could help dementia patients live independently
Sep 28, 2019 14:09 pm UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
You might already have whats often called a smart home, with your lights or music connected to voice-controlled technology such as Alexa or Siri. But when researchers talk about smart homes, we usually mean technologies...
City share-house rents eat up most of Newstart, leaving less than $100 a week to live on
Sep 23, 2019 02:51 am UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
In all Australias capital cities, average share-house rents in the inner suburbs (where jobs are concentrated) leave people without enough money for food and other basics, new research shows. This research, for a...
Sep 22, 2019 13:57 pm UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
Affordable housing is a critical problem for Australias biggest housing markets. Five Australian cities are in the top 25 with severely unaffordable housing in a 2019 Demographia survey of 91 major metropolitan markets....
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Labour can afford to be far more ambitious with its economic policies – voters are on board
Sudan: civil war stretches into a second year with no end in sight