Do you think housing affordability policy will become a 2013 federal election issue?
So Sydney managed another preliminary auction clearance rate of 80% plus on the weekend.
According to Australian Property Monitors (APM), that's the fourth consecutive week of an 80% plus preliminary clearance rate.
And Property Observer readers were asked last week if Sydney could make it four weeks in a row.
Some 64% made the correct prediction.
That was a marked turn around on the 60% who didn't think it would get to its third consecutive week.
The first two weekend results were revised, after last auction results, to slightly below 80%, but the revision for the July 27 weekend was to 80.3%.
So later this week we will again ask if Sydney can continue the extraordinary 80% plus clearance rate run?
But today we ask:
{module Do you think housing affordability policy will become a 2013 federal election issue?}
Housing affordability supposedly ranks as a major issue among voters, according to the Auspoll survey, conducted between May 19 to June 21, when voters rated the importance of a list of public policy issues in the lead up to the 2013 federal election.
Some 84% said housing affordability was either quite important (39%) or very important (45%). Housing affordability was the fifth most important issue out of the 12 areas surveyed with the healthcare system of greatest concern(96%), followed by the economy (95%), crime and personal safety (94%), and then jobs and employment (91%).
Only 16% of those surveyed believed Australia was performing well when it came to housing affordability with 41% suggesting it was performing poorly.
Some 72% of those polled said they were unaware of either Labor or the Coalition having a clear plan to improve housing affordability.