Home Buyers Strike Called The Dont Buy Now Home Buyers Strike was launched Tuesday to warn prospective property buyers that now is the worst time to buy a house. The state of the housing market is unfurling at a rate of knots. A mexican standoff is being played out between sellers trying to maintain prices and buyers being hounded to … Read More
Housing Investors Crowd Out Community
photo credit: fMoya With auction numbers at record levels, it seems that the pursuit of the greater fool is well underway. Melbourne’s May auction levels were the highest on record and this coming weekend could see almost double the June average of properties up for sale. Yesterday’s ABS figures on housing lending shows how genuine home buyers are being increasingly … Read More
Gentrification Games Artists
What role is there for artists in a community? Long looked down upon as dole bludgers, why is life such a struggle for those who like to use image, texture and craft to express rather than words or numbers? After yesterday’s excellent article Fitzroy Snubs Gentrification on our upcoming Anti-Gentrification festival, a poorly written piece by Marcus Westbury must be … Read More
Speculators Flipping Our Freedom
Why should land speculator’s make more in their sleep than we do sweating away over a lifetime? This trend has led to the financial meltdown but yet they are being bailed out…. The modern world’s problems demand the most accurate financial tools on our side. Here we sum up the problems and give an overview to a very important reform. … Read More