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Nicole Gurran

Nicole Gurran

Nicole Gurran is a professor of urban and regional planning at the University of Sydney and director of the Henry Halloran Urban & Regional Research Initiative.

If prices fall, watch development applications follow.

Reality check: Promised 67,000 homes a year would send building into freefall

The plan is to make new homes $100,000 cheaper. Sadly, the biggest boost to supply will happen when property prices rise again.

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese with NSW Premier Chris Minns and NT Chief Minister Natasha Fyles after the national cabinet in Brisbane.

The real reason housing supply isn’t keeping up with demand

Our real housing supply problem is that Australia is now almost totally dependent on the private market to deliver new homes.

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Labor will help out 10,000 first home buyers a year.

New policies barely lighten the load when it comes to affording a home

The policies of the two major parties are unlikely to deliver much relief to home owners or renters because when it comes down to it, neither party wants house values to fall.

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Structural issues as well as supply contribute to Australian property prices.

Exploding the myth that increasing supply will fix Sydney’s soaring house prices

Record numbers of new homes have been delivered over the past five years, yet we’re seeing prices skyrocket.

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