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Emerald city held to ransom by state padlock on greenfields: survey
Sydney is one of the least affordable places to buy a home, an international survey has found - and its authors say government land release policies bear a large part of the blame.
The harbour city placed second only to Vancouver on a list of the world's most expensive residential markets compiled by the Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey of 272 markets in six countries.
Melbourne and Adelaide were not far behind - ranked third and fourth in the list of least affordable major cities, above London, New York and San Francisco.
As a result, Australia was by far the least affordable of the countries surveyed, followed by New Zealand, Britain, Canada, Ireland and the United States.
''Australia registered the worst housing affordability in the history of the survey,'' said Wendell Cox and Hugh Pavletich, the authors of the annual survey for the Frontier Centre for Public Policy in Canada.
''The average household would be required to pay more than 50 per cent of its income to service a new mortgage on the median-priced house in Sydney or Melbourne,'' they said.
''In Dallas-Fort Worth or Atlanta, the household would pay under 20 per cent.''
The survey employed the "median multiple" ranking formula, dividing median house prices by gross annual median household income to rate affordability.
Perth was the cheapest Australian capital with a rating of 5.5 (Sydney was 6.1) and was the only Australian capital to remain no less affordable.
But it is a relative money pit compared with the American rustbelt cities of Detroit (1.6), Lansing and Youngstown (each 1.7), which were the cheapest cities surveyed, largely as a result of the global financial crisis.
Responsibility for the affordability crisis in Sydney was laid squarely at the feet of the State Government by the authors.
They said the Government's preference for urban consolidation over the release of greenfield sites on the city fringes had created a critical shortage of land that was suitable for development, driving up prices.
A Sydney activist, Tony Recsei, who wrote the introduction to the survey, said greenfield sites on the edge of Sydney needed to be opened up to the free market. ''Higher densities are neither practical nor desirable,'' he said.
Professor Peter Phibbs from the Australian Housing and Urban Research Institute said the methodology of the survey was ''too simplistic''.
''Housing affordability is associated with many variables, including income levels and employment trends, access to finance, demographic shifts, and housing preferences,'' he said.
''The Demographia surveys reduce this very complex issue to a simple causal relationship between house prices and planning constraints on land supply.
''Also, comparing Sydney to Detroit isn't really fair. Sydney is one of the world's best cities, and that creates price pressures that aren't there and will never be there in, say, Kansas.'' |
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