Some 60 delegates representing social services, trade unions, community activists and the building industry are meeting in Canberra today and tomorrow in an attempt to find answers to the "creeping crisis" of housing affordability, the Housing Industry Association said today.
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The Housing Industry Association’s Coffs Harbour Forum is the ideal opportunity for the local building industry to send a united message to government on the issues affecting residential construction.
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The residential construction industry is on the move again in Coffs Harbour after three years of decline, the Housing Industry Association said today.
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The Housing Industry Association welcomes the publication of the ACT Government’s draft Bill for Planning System Reform as a first step towards untangling a complex, frustrating and uncertain development approval process.
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Rising interest rates, land shortages, and a lack of urgency among home buyers is keeping the brakes on new home building in New South Wales.
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Today’s solid lending figures for housing is welcome news for the ACT’s home builders and renovators as the strong pipeline of work continues.
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The interest rate rise had an immediate negative impact on the housing industry with the sale of new homes across Queensland falling in May.
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At a time when housing affordability in Queensland is at an all time low it is extremely concerning that the Opposition’s water policy is targeting new housing in an attempt to address water shortages in Queensland says HIA Qld Executive Director Warwick Temby.
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Rising interest rates, land shortages, and a lack of urgency among home buyers is keeping the brakes on new home building.
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Builders, designers, contractors and consumers will need to have strong working relationships if the growing trend towards apartment living is to be managed successfully, a key adviser to the NSW Government told the Housing Industry Association Technical Luncheon today.
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It is the cost of buying a block of land on which to build rather than the cost of the house that is killing the dream of home ownership according to Housing Industry Association.
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Fears of falling house prices from a slowing housing market are overstated.
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Building approvals for May show why increases in interest rates are such a blunt instrument in changing economic behaviour.
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Rampant increases in levies on new developments in yesterday’s Brisbane City budget will unnecessarily add to the pressures on housing affordability in Brisbane.
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Home lending held largely steady in Queensland in April, ahead of a likely pull-back mid year as a result of the interest rate rise in May.
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