NSW moves a "great first step" to improve affordability: REINSW
John Cunningham, president of the REINSW, says the state government's moves to help first-home buyers are welcome "first steps" to address housing affordability pressures in NSW.
The NSW government is set to consider allowing development applications over a certain size to be automatically deferred to independent planning panels.
New home completions beat 1971 record, but will it be enough?
A record number of new homes were built in Sydney in the year to February, but John Cunningham, president of the REINSW, says more needs to happen in NSW to alleviate affordability pressures.
'Technology and tomorrow’s agent' is the theme of the REINSW’s 2017 Roadshow, which will travel to regional areas starting today in Dubbo, and finishing in Sydney on 15 August.
The preliminary clearance rate across Australia's five capital cities last week was 76.9 per cent, up from 69.8 per cent the previous week, according to CoreLogic.
