NDIS housing rules for people with a disability could be life-changing

Mar 23, 2017 06:22 am UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate

The National Disability Insurance Scheme (Specialist Disability Accommodation) Rules were tabled in federal parliament in mid-March. The new rules offer the possibility of an inclusive Australian society that enables those...

Explainer: the financialisation of housing and what can be done about it

Mar 23, 2017 06:18 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Real Estate

A recent United Nations report on the right to adequate housing identifies the financialisation of housing as an issue of global importance. It defines the financialisation of housing as: … structural changes...

Home prices tell us the value the public puts on green spaces

Mar 02, 2017 04:15 am UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate

Homes near green amenities are more desirable and more expensive because residents are willing to pay higher prices to gain the many benefits of green spaces. Our research has confirmed, for instance, that apartments near...

Rental insecurity: why fixed long-term leases aren't the answer

Feb 16, 2017 06:09 am UTC| Real Estate Law

The insecurity of rental housing and unsatisfactory condition of many properties are receiving much-deserved media attention following the release of a national survey of tenants. However, the stock response to the...

Dream homes: Architecture and popular imagination

Feb 16, 2017 00:47 am UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate

Its always fascinated me, the place that architecture holds in the public imagination. I dont mean that regular people frequently get carried away about buildings, which they generally dont. Im talking about the heady,...

Moving on from home ownership for 'Generation Rent'

Feb 15, 2017 07:37 am UTC| Insights & Views Economy Real Estate

The inequalities and inequities that housing markets generate have become a cross-national issue in the last decade or so. In Australia, the UK and the US, discussions of Generation Rent have taken centre stage. In the...

What UK interest rates will mean for your mortgage choices

Feb 02, 2017 12:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views Economy Real Estate

For many of us, our home is the single most important investment we will make in our lifetime and mortgage payments can take up a huge chunk of our income. As politics and economics seem to deliver nothing but uncertainty,...