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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 [...]

Qld home builders have seen home buyers disappear as first home buyers stay away. A lot of home builders are hurting right now, especially in Queensland, where the sale of new homes could be 20% down on 2010, itself a down year. Whilst first home buyers have not been a major force in new home [...]

Home builders australia wide are doing it tough as home buyers shun high land prices. Land prices have hit the ridulous in Queensland, and this is where the pain for the construction industry is worst. There is no other reason but too higher land prices that I can see for people to stop wanting to [...]

From that I make two points. They would stil be the top home builders without the CRMs, and:

This same company uses a CRM and their sales fell from nearly 500 land sales in 2009, to under 100 in 2010. So if the CRM did not work for them, why would they want to push it onto others?

The reason is that they wanted these same builders not using CRMs to buy more land and were trying to prove that they could make more sales.
The real motive was to the Land Sales company to shift land that wasn’t selling. Hope no home builders fell for that scam.
The fact is that people can’t buy a building contract without land, and if the Land Developer can’t sell their land, then home builders can’t sell homes. Its that simple.

Residential property investment has slide out of favour for a lot of reasons, but investment property is making a comeback as interest rate drops and rising rents make the figures stack up. Major house and land developers say that inquiries from investors have risen after recent interest rate drops. Whilst some property investors have never left the [...]