2009-07-03 WA Today
Perth might be getting lots more people, but it's running out of places for them to live, new research shows. A Residential Development Council study has backed other property industry groups which have expressed concern about the new housing shortfall in the metropolitan...
2009-07-02 Adelaide Now
ADELAIDE will need almost 30,000 new houses in the next five years to keep up with an escalating population, a new report shows. The Australia on the Move report, released yesterday, forecasts Adelaide's population to increase by 18 per cent or 213,823 by...
2009-07-02 Trading Room.com.au
Australia's governments say they are making good progress in pushing the "seamless national economy" reform agenda to cut costs for business, improve labour flexibility and protect...
2009-07-02 The Full Story
Source: Call This A Home campaign A coalition of peak welfare groups and agencies are challenging the Victorian Government to take on a growing number of slumlords who are operating unsafe, overcrowded and often squalid private rooming houses and exploiting thousands of the state s most vulnerable...
2009-07-02 Sunshine Coast Daily
The Urban Development Institute of Australia has applauded a special taskforce's call for Sunshine Coast council to fast-track affordable housing development...
2009-07-02 quote.com
(RTTNews) - Pending home sales increased for the fourth consecutive month in May, according to a report released by the National Association of Realtors on Wednesday, with very favorable housing affordability and a first-time buyer tax credit contributing to the continued...
2009-07-02 The Australian
AUSTRALIA'S residential property developers will need to build 155,000 homes annually in the next five years to cater for the additional 1.6 million people expected to live here in that...
2009-06-30 Stirling Times
UNRULY Homeswest tenants are being warned to clean up their act or face being evicted as authorities crack down on bad behaviour. The caution comes as a North Beach family was evicted from a Homeswest property earlier this month after constant antisocial behaviour and complaints from horrified...
2009-06-29 Bloomberg
June 29 (Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Gordon Brown shelved plans to sell a stake in the post office and said hed concentrate on tripling the housing budget and curb benefit payments to unemployed...
2009-06-28 Nine MSN - News & Current Affairs
Victorians buying their first home will be eligible for up to $36,500 in state and federal government grants from Wednesday. But they will be slugged more for water when they move in under changes coming into effect in the new financial...