FET (old posts)

The sale price of homes is not the economic price of housing. Prices, in the economic sense, are the relative cost of consuming newly-produc...

Modern housing economists, following in the footsteps of Ed Glaeser, seem to think that the market price of land should be zero. Land only h...

First published at Sydney Business Insights . What chance does a political party promising to radically reduce home prices to improve afford...

Interest rates are the main story for home prices in Australia. With our deregulated banking system, all demand for mortgages can be satisfi...

These comments were reported in The Australian on 10 Sept 2020 . _____________________________ At the current 9.5% compulsory contribution r...

You are a housing developer with a large plot of land on the fringes of a major city with no planning constraints. How quickly should you se...

Recent Twitter exchanges have helped me to understand a couple of additional confusions in the housing supply debates. Let me take them one ...

Sam Bowman thinks that a lack of supply is the primary reason for high home prices. I just released a podcast  with Ian Mulheirn going into...

A puzzle came via twitter following the crazy story of RBA research claiming that if you remove planning controls, apartment prices will fal...

Read my full submission here . The NSW government has been conducting a review of taxes and federal financial relations. One of the main pr...