Stamp duty stops housing mobility

Australians are paying substantially more stamp duty when they move house than they were 20 years ago – and this is hindering mobility and the efficient use of housing stock,...

Crunch time for apartment construction

Apartment supply will be at crisis levels by 2024, with 30,000 direct jobs lost across the sector, warns the Property Council, following fresh analysis from Urbis.

A plan to rebuild and revive Melbourne’s CBD

Support for Melbourne’s apartment market and a reboot of the Postcode 3000 policy can both revitalise the CBD and rebuild Victoria’s economy, says the Property Council’s Danni...

Extension to economic bullseye

The construction deadline for the federal government’s HomeBuilder program – dubbed an “economic bullseye” by the Property Council – has been extended by a year. What does this...