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Sydney housing market fourth on global bubble index

Sydney has the fourth riskiest housing market in the world after surging in value over the last three years, according to a bank report.   The report, the UBS Global Real Estate Bubble Index, said housing markets in major cities around the world are overheating just a few years after the global financial crisis saw […]

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Negative gearing causing house prices in Sydney and Melbourne to skyrocket, report says

A new report on the housing affordability crisis in Sydney and Melbourne calls for the Federal Government to urgently rethink its support of negative gearing. The report, Sydney and Melbourne’s Housing Affordability Crisis – No End in Sight, was written by Dr Bob Birrell and David McCloskey from Monash University’s Centre for Population and Urban […]