property news Housing with Buyer Protection and No Serious Faults – Is That Too Much to Ask of Builders and Regulators? Regulation of the Australian building industry is broken, according to the Shergold-Weir report to the Building Ministers’ Forum (BMF).
property news Why Outer Suburbs Lack Inner City’s ‘Third Places’: A Partial Defence of the Hipster One of the stark differences between neighbourhoods in the inner city and outer suburbs in Australia is the quality and type of retail offerings.
commercial property People Love Parklets and Businesses Can Make Them Happen As councils across Australia strive to enhance their liveability, parklets are proving popular among city communities.
property news Why Falling House Prices do Less to Improve Affordability Than You Might Think The annual growth of house prices has been slowing consistently for more than a year in Australia’s largest cities.
property news What Residents Have to Say about Life on the Urban Fringe The National Growth Areas Alliance of local councils launched a national campaign, “Catch up with the outer suburbs”, on Monday. But what is it really like to live in these areas?
cities ‘Growth’ of Community Housing May Be An Illusion. The Cost-Shifting Isn’t Southern Cross Housing, a non-profit community housing provider, took over management of just under 1,000 public housing dwellings on the New South Wales South Coast last October.
cities Enhancing Liveability and Sustainability in our Cities Despite awareness of adverse effects, the collective ecological impact of artificial light is not well recognised beyond the sphere of ecological research.
