Yesterday
- Analysis
- China
Why the Chinese are warming to ‘second-hand’ homes
With tens of thousands of new developments yet to be completed, house hunters are looking again at older buildings. End buyers don’t trust developers any more.
- Thomas Hale, Wang Xueqiao, Andy Lin and Chan Ho-him
Landlords offered $5000 lure for housing fix
Amid a surge in Perth property prices, the WA government will give owners of vacant homes $5000 if they make them available for long-term renters.
- Tom Rabe
This Month
Victoria open to tax breaks to boost home building
Premier Jacinta Allan says her Labor government is open to pulling every lever available to boost housing supply, after developers called for taxation tweaks to boost investment.
- Gus McCubbing
- Exclusive
- Construction
Red tape puts Labor’s $10b HAFF housing plan at risk
The federal government, set to fall 300,000 homes short of its 1.2 million target, faces another hurdle over workplace health and safety certification.
- Michael Bleby
‘Larger than life’: packed memorial farewells Lang Walker
Friday’s two-hour public service for the property developer and Rich Lister, who died in January, was attended by a who’s who of Australian business and politics.
- Robert Harley
$10b housing fund should be doubled, community providers say
The massive response to the federal government’s first tender to develop affordable and social rental housing shows more funding is needed, developers say.
- Michael Bleby
A housing boom is coming – for the wealthy
Investors, downsizers and upgraders will drive the next wave of residential development. First home buyers will hardly get a look in.
- Michael Bleby
- Opinion
- Opinion
Housing construction is collapsing around Australia. Here’s why
Developers can charge buyers more, or the costs can come down to make apartment developments viable. It’s clear which is better, Robert Harley writes.
- Robert Harley
- Exclusive
- Commercial real estate
Addenbrooke sells site meant for controversial land swap deal
The property developer has sold the Sydney site that sparked a reshuffle of the A2B board, ending an almost three-year saga.
- Campbell Kwan
Planning delays transformed into social housing solutions at Toga
Property developer Toga turns vacant apartments and retail spaces in projects awaiting planning approval into pop-up accommodation for vulnerable communities.
- Larry Schlesinger
April
- Opinion
- Opinion
Why Australia can’t build enough new homes
The nation’s housing ambitions are way off target. That means the price of new homes and rentals will continue to climb, compounded by still high immigration numbers.
- Jennifer Hewett
Lendlease needs ‘wholesale change’ now: Allan Gray boss
Allan Gray boss Simon Mawhinney says change that would restore shareholder confidence in the property developer should come immediately.
- Michael Bleby
Stockland says interest rates key to further market improvement
The country’s largest listed diversified developer said sales picked up in the March quarter, but lower borrowing costs were needed for the housing market to pick up.
- Updated
- Michael Bleby
High costs to delay housing supply until end of decade: AFR survey
It’s a case of simple economics choking off the desperately needed supply of new housing as building costs rise faster than house price growth.
- Nick Lenaghan
The apartment supply conundrum behind Perth’s housing price surge
There’s plenty of demand and many projects approved, but sky-high construction costs have left developers asking for more government money.
- Updated
- Tom Rabe
Melbourne car park near Queen Vic Market tipped to sell for $120m
The large car park site at 380 Queen Street, which could support a multi-tower project overlooking Queen Victoria Market, is owned by Singaporean investors.
- Larry Schlesinger
- Exclusive
- Rural property
Acuity Development has $300m plan for Yarra Valley aerodrome and farm
The developer, which sources both projects and investors, has grand plans for the Yarra Valley’s only sealed airstrip and neighbouring farm.
- Michael Bleby
Data centre builders fight infrastructure for heavy cranes
Demand for the heaviest type of crane has pushed up costs at twice the rate of ordinary commercial cranes. And there aren’t enough of them.
- Michael Bleby
Developers slam Mornington Peninsula Shire social housing tax
A 3.3 per cent levy on new developments would reduce investment in housing on the Mornington Peninsula, says Rich Lister Sam Tarascio and other developers.
- Larry Schlesinger
The suburbs where you can buy a unit for under $400,000
Home buyers looking to score units under $400,000 will not easily find them in Sydney or Brisbane, but Melbourne and Perth still offer plenty, at least for now.
- Nila Sweeney