The Victorian government has revealed the details of rental reform promised last September,including a dispute resolution service.
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Exclusive analysis shows just how out of reach Melbourne’s property market has become for aspiring homeowners on average incomes.
It was neither bad planning nor a coincidence that Labor chose the upmarket seat of Brighton – deep in political enemy territory – to announce plans to boost housing density in established suburbs last weekend.
Apartments built in new activity centres risk being too dark and too small as the state government charges ahead with housing but stalls updates to minimum design standards.
Labor hopes its housing policy will not just dig it out of its electoral problems but also its economic woes. Yet the pitch for the young vote is a gamble the Liberals think they can capitalise on.
A council in Melbourne’s inner east says the state government’s fast-tracking of apartment development cuts across its own plans to cater for growth.
Both the IMF and Deloitte Access Economics are warning the new economic year is unlikely to be much better than the current one.
Even though booming property prices have delivered countless sellers windfall gains,others are left holding assets for years that fall in value.
Despite the housing crisis,the construction of nearly 10,000 Sydney apartments has stalled.
The reaction in the inner west is of a vastly different temperature to what was seen in Brighton,where about 100 people protested and heckled the premier.