Interest only loans are an economic debacle that could bust the property market
Apr 27, 2018 07:40 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Real Estate
This week: This risks of interest only loans that the RBA is ignoring and more revenue for the government ahead of the budget. Australian taxpayers wont face a rise in taxes now that Treasurer Scott Morrison...
Millennials' home ownership hopes dashed by a broken housing market
Feb 20, 2018 07:49 am UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
Speaking to the Conservative Party conference in September 2017, the UK prime minister, Theresa May, gave a stark assessment of the UK housing market which made for depressing listening for many young people: For many the...
Jakarta: social and housing justice should not be a gamble on global market's table
Jan 30, 2018 13:24 pm UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate Economy
As a sociologist and media scholar with an interest in emerging forms of civic engagement, I initially came to Jakarta - the worlds Twitter capital - to research innovative social media uses. Instead, my first visits to...
Parliament may not have what it takes to fix its crumbling house
Jan 30, 2018 12:36 pm UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate Economy
Back in 2015, a detailed analysis of the Palace of Westminster concluded that the risk of catastrophic failure is increasing … a major failing of the existing service infrastructure is inevitable. As the subsequent...
New housing can be affordable and homely if builders learn lessons from the car industry – and IKEA
Jan 09, 2018 14:50 pm UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
For many people, the housing market is not a welcoming place. The rungs of the property ladder seem to get further and further out of reach. There are loud calls to build hundreds of thousands of new homes (and equally...
Like it or loathe it, here's why Apple doesn't need a planning permit for its Fed Square store
Dec 28, 2017 13:30 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law Real Estate
Despite the prominent public role played by Melbournes Federation Square, Apples new flagship store to be built within it wont even require a planning permit. This is thanks to an obscure planning process that planning...
The spooky mortgage risk signs our bankers are ignoring
Oct 13, 2017 09:35 am UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
Vital Signs is a weekly economic wrap from UNSW economics professor and Harvard PhD Richard Holden (@profholden). Vital Signs aims to contextualise weekly economic events and cut through the noise of the data affecting...
Johannesburg in a time of darkness: Ivan Vladislavić’s new memoir reminds us of the city’s fragility
Economist Chris Richardson on an ‘ugly’ inflation result and the coming budget
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