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Why a new home costs a million dollars (opens the original)
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👋 Hello to the housing-curious and the 16 of you who are new there. This week I'm following the money in a new home, from the land and the materials to the car park you might never use. If you're waiting for house prices to drop further, read this first.House prices have fallen for five straight months and right now the mood is starkly divided. From the stories I hear from first home buyers, some see the first market dip in a decade as an opportunity. Others are waiting for a crash, if there is
Five books that changed the way I think about cities (opens the original)
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👋 Hey, welcome to the housing-curious and city lovers, plus the 6 of you who are new here. Each week(ish) you'll get tips, data and ideas to help you buy smarter and live more intentionally.It’s Book Week this week. Which is an event I have mixed emotions about. If you’ve got school-aged kids, you probably spent last night at the kitchen table with a cardboard box, a glue gun and a deadline, after your kid reminded you that they needed a costume for the morning. I love a glue gun, just not after
Why can't we build more houses? (opens the original)
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👋 Hello to the housing-curious, plus the 8 of you who are new here. Each week you'll get tips, data and ideas to help you buy smarter and live more intentionally.The Housing Crisis Isn't a Supply Problem. It's a Productivity Problem.I’ve spent the better part of my career standing on a building site somewhere. In a field at the edge of a city that will be someone’s home someday. On a vacant lot that will one day be somewhere people shop, work and live. Walking a dying main street looking for way
The Rise of the Single-Person Household (opens the original)
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👋 Hello to the housing-curious and those redesigning your life, plus the 12 of you who are new here this week. In this weekly stack you’ll find tips and data insights to help you make better property choices and live intentionally. I started again at 40. Housing, finance, work, pretty much everything.After an (amicable) separation, I was redesigning my life in real time. And still am, of course, it’s a journey that you never really arrive at. I know a lot Millenials in the same place: career con
Boring by Design: Where did urban planning go wrong? (opens the original)
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Hannah grew up moving from one rental to the next with her mum, never sure when a lease would end or the rent would jump out of reach. So when the chance came to build a brand-new house in an estate on the edge of Perth, the decision felt obvious: space for her two dogs, a backyard, and a permanence she’d never had.The agent’s glossy brochures promised a train line extension, a road to the freeway and a new town centre — all “coming soon”. At first it was lovely: quiet streets, baby trees in new
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