Labor’s decision to launch its economic plan on a day when it would be eclipsed by the big news of a significant jump in inflation signals the party’s disengagement from the real economic picture.

Designed to be “slum-less, lane-less and pub-less”, the entire suburb of Haberfield is a heritage conservation zone – and its population is ageing alongside its houses.

Despite the nation’s housing crisis, yogis, martial artists and dog handlers are among the occupations to have beaten construction trades to a spot on a draft priority skills list.

Southern staters have long migrated north to Queensland and the pandemic increased that. But not all stay – and leaving can be profitable.

Brendan Addison is a project manager for a construction company but says he will need to find extra work on the side to keep up with repayments on his mortgage and an investment property loan.

Anthony Albanese will use next week’s resumption of parliament to give the government the option of an early,  double dissolution election.

The Greens want the federal government to enter the property development game as part of a new housing policy to be unveiled on Wednesday afternoon.

Renowned macroeconomist Gerard Minack says underinvestment in infrastructure relative to population growth has been ‘massively detrimental to living standards’.

Buyer’s agent Alex Bragilevsky says he has a dozen Chinese clients who will pay cash for $30m mansions in Melbourne’s most expensive suburb.

Plans to redevelop an old barracks and an industrial site into ‘luxury’ units and apartments have in both cases met with fierce opposition.

It’s easy to forget that Anthony Albanese has been in Canberra for a very long time. Entitlement to largesse is a lifelong practice.

Business may be unable to bring foreign tradies into Australia under the Albanese government’s new fast-track visa rules.

International students have been the driving force behind Australia’s record net overseas migration boom: The latest temporary visa data from the Department of Home Affairs shows that there were a...

Imagine a Sydney in which working people in suits with iPhones are lining up for food assistance.

Why retiree savings and the spending habits of young adults are making it hard to curb inflation.

So-called NIMBYs and YIMBYs are going into battle for Sydney’s future. At issue is whether heritage protection saves much-loved suburbs or locks young people out of them.

Peter Dutton’s promise to reduce temporary migration to 160,000 people would smash the country’s fourth-largest export sector, experts say.

Property experts say new housing supply will likely pop up near public transport routes, in inner-city areas and in new suburbs, and may dampen capital gains.

If housing was a fundamental human right, what would that mean for Australians, asks Gareth Hutchens.

The country’s head of state would be chosen by voters from a shortlist of 11 names selected by state, territory and federal parliaments.

International student numbers are returning to pre-pandemic highs. But finding somewhere to live is proving challenging.

Developers say land banking reflects good business while critics say it pushes up prices. But the federal government’s housing body says the jury’s still out.

A portfolio manager has claimed Aussie homeowners will need to brace for the “mother of all shocks” later this year.

A levy will not make Australian universities more resilient, but the opposite. And visa scams and housing shortages should be addressed directly, not with the blunt instrument of a tax.

Mortgage broker Stamford Capital is arranging construction finance for developments worth $5 billion. All of them are luxury apartment projects.