Housing



Housing prices have soared in major cities around the world. In Australia, this is particularly true in Melbourne and Sydney, where prices jumped by 120%… Read More ›

Come One, Come All? How Housing Prices Respond to Taxes on Foreign Buyers of Residential Properties

Australia’s two million-plus property investors – about 60% of whom negatively gear – are expecting to be affected if the government changes property tax concessions… Read More ›

Potential Impacts of Tax Incentive Changes for Property Investment on Capital Flow and Migration in Australia

Economists almost universally recognise that a land tax – an annual tax on the unimproved value of land – is amongst the most efficient taxes… Read More ›

Land Tax: Making an Efficient Tax More Equitable

When interest rates began to rise, many anticipated a sharp decline in house prices, but this has not been the case. Our research paper, “The… Read More ›

Why Low Yield Does Not Deter Property Investors: Insights from Greater Sydney

Negative gearing allows households that incur losses on rental income to deduct these losses from other sources of income. The Greens are currently advocating for… Read More ›

Negative Gearing: Not So Negative After All?

If just one state of Australia, New South Wales, scrapped its stamp duty on real-estate transactions, about 100,000 more Australians would move homes each year,… Read More ›

Stamp Duty Is Holding Us Back From Moving Homes – We’ve Worked Out How Much

Compulsory acquisition and regulating what can be done on land are distinct but conceptually similar urban planning tools. However, while both may be regarded as… Read More ›

Compensating and Taxing Land Regulations

While economists are renown for never agreeing, almost all do agree that stamp duty on property transfers is bad tax. Similarly, it is widely accepted… Read More ›

Stamp Duty Reform: How to Thread the Needle Between Economic and Political Objectives

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