home ownership

Lease your way to owning: how do rent-to-buy schemes work?

06 Jun 2023

Fewer young people have the means to buy their first home, but is there a way to shortcut a failing system?

close up of a real estate sign board with text for sale among suburban houses

Do first home buyer schemes improve access to home ownership?

07 Jul 2022

The $20 billion spent on assistance may have benefited existing home owners more than new home owners, a new report finds.

Giving ex-prisoners public housing cuts crime and re-incarceration

04 May 2022

Finding stable housing is one of the biggest challenges facing prison leavers. Access to public housing flattens the curve on recidivism.

UNSW Business School to examine reverse mortgages

11 Jun 2019

UNSW Business School is investigating how people decide whether a reverse mortgage is a good way to supplement their retirement income.

Property stockpiling deprives others of a basic necessity

15 Jun 2015

We can choose to construct property markets in which some privileged citizens stockpile more residential property than they can ever use, or we can recognise that affordable housing is a basic necessity for a fulfilling, autonomous, human life, writes Cathy Sherry.