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It was great to see the prior QLD Labor Government’s actions honoured Brendan Nelson of the Queensland Reconstruction Authority led the construction of a new estate in Grantham, and his planning has won an industry award for his work. Brendan was named Australian Planner of the Year at the Planning Institute of Australia’s national awards [...]

A logjam of concerns are aligning to pull new housing construction figures to the levels of post GFC. The February new home approvals figures show that new house construction, both single family homes and multi unit developments are down, but is that a real concern to the economy at large. As with most problems we [...]

New home sales have slowed again in late December and early January in most States, and the housing market is off to a poor start in 2012 The Housing Industry Association [HIA], reports that house contracts sales have fallen in December 2011 and January 2012, a survey of Australia’s 100 largest builders shows a decline [...]

Will Australian house prices crash in 2013 as predicted by another US property guru? Many Australians’ belief in Real Estate as the best investment would be shocked that a US real estate expert is predicting Australia’s real estate prices could half over the next couple of years. Jordan Wirsz, a respected US real estate adviser  [...]

Are Town Planners to blame for Approving Apartments in Brisbane’s Flood prone CBD? Recent Brisbane floods have shown that Brisbane’s town planners have a short memory when to comes to living in the Sub tropical Brisbane. Planning issues at three Brisbane apartment developments are the focus of the Queensland Floods Commission of Inquiry. Brisbane City [...]

Joel Kotlin is an expert in city living and has studied trends of cities  and fertility rates around the World. But is he right about Sydney’s high density housing making you infertile ? I say no, and for several reasons. Firstly Australia’s fertility rate has been dropping since the pill was introduced. Secondly people are [...]

Is the housing shortage real, or just a trumped up story to give home buyers the hurry up. I have changed my mind over the past two years. After repeating the story for years on my blogs of a growing housing shortage in Australia believing it to be true, I now believe it might have [...]