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The Pulse: May 2015
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Click below to view my business website. Wednesday, May 27, 2015. Better suburbs = better cities. Employment and the importance of the suburban economy. So why this preoccupation with the inner cities to the detriment of the suburbs? First, a quick review of the evidence as provided in the Census. But however dispersed these suburban jobs may be, it doesn’t make them any less important to the economy – particularly given their dominant role as employment and economic engines. It’s as if a prosperou...
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The Pulse: Aged care & retirement living: are they immune to market and economic cycles?
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Click below to view my business website. Wednesday, July 15, 2015. Aged care and retirement living: are they immune to market and economic cycles? With the demand we know is coming, without any increase in take up rates. And these are only the development numbers for aged care. Add in the retirement living market and you could potentially double that. Or maybe more. What though will happen to today’s generation of kids? How will the industry respond? Here are a few thoughts. View my complete profile.
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The Pulse: December 2014
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Click below to view my business website. Wednesday, December 3, 2014. Developers: the real city builders. There certainly weren’t legions of planners in government offices trying to exert a command and control influence over community choice by wielding an ideological stick in the form of planning policy. Instead “back in the day” there were a handful of city engineers, and applications for development tended to be approved if they met basic building code and engineering guidelines. Will it ever change?
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The Pulse: Where we live: the case for suburban renewal
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Click below to view my business website. Wednesday, March 18, 2015. Where we live: the case for suburban renewal. So how do our three largest cities shape up on the evidence? Which means that state governments, working with local and federal agencies, are the ones needed to adopt a broader governance approach to metro regions, with a focus on sustaining and developing the suburban economy along with the inner urban. To: they live there because they want. Yet while numerically superior in every way, the s...
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The Pulse: Shabby chic not a good plan for tourism
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Click below to view my business website. Thursday, April 30, 2015. Shabby chic not a good plan for tourism. Australia’s tourism industry has moments of optimism when external factors like a falling Aussie dollar auger well for international arrivals. But mainly it’s stuck in a rut, promoting the same experiences and the same, increasingly tired product. No amount of taxpayer funded advertising campaigns will change this fundamental problem. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). View my complete profile.
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The Pulse: April 2015
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Click below to view my business website. Thursday, April 30, 2015. Shabby chic not a good plan for tourism. Australia’s tourism industry has moments of optimism when external factors like a falling Aussie dollar auger well for international arrivals. But mainly it’s stuck in a rut, promoting the same experiences and the same, increasingly tired product. No amount of taxpayer funded advertising campaigns will change this fundamental problem. Tuesday, April 14, 2015. This could hit housing especially hard ...
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The Pulse: November 2014
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Click below to view my business website. Tuesday, November 4, 2014. This could be a very short yarn because despite the almost daily media reports of a housing boom or bust (depending on which media you read) and despite regular jawboning on housing prices by no less than the Reserve Bank, and despite tumbling affordability for young families and talk of generational lock-out from the housing market, we don’t actually have a housing policy as such. Nor does it seem much of an official view. It strikes me...
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The Pulse: July 2015
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Click below to view my business website. Wednesday, July 29, 2015. How the hangover could look now that APRA has shut down the party. Some years ago, Reserve Bank Governor Glenn Stevens expressed caution that low interest rates, which ought to lead to an increase in housing supply, might simply lead to a run up in prices. See for example this analysis. This is a worst case scenario and I am not predicting financial Armageddon. But I do come across plenty of people in the industry who seem to be in de...
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The Pulse: Is it time for suburban renewal?
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Click below to view my business website. Thursday, February 5, 2015. Is it time for suburban renewal? It all made economic sense. It was good public policy (with some notable failings – particularly the idea that urban renewal would lead to more affordable housing for working people, when it actually led to the opposite) and it was good politics too. I’ll bet they are. Economies and our suburban. Communities: have we become preoccupied with cutting yet more ribbons on projects of inner city fiscal larges...
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The Pulse: How the hangover could look now that APRA has shut down the party
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Click below to view my business website. Wednesday, July 29, 2015. How the hangover could look now that APRA has shut down the party. Some years ago, Reserve Bank Governor Glenn Stevens expressed caution that low interest rates, which ought to lead to an increase in housing supply, might simply lead to a run up in prices. See for example this analysis. This is a worst case scenario and I am not predicting financial Armageddon. But I do come across plenty of people in the industry who seem to be in de...
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