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原帖由 黑山老妖 于 2007-8-22 11:43 发表
前几年我看到一个报告说澳洲人的消费习惯正在向少但精的消费模式转换。意思就是大家开始牺牲很多东西只是为了能够在几样消费上面享受最好的。
澳洲人对于住房的需求还是求大求宽敞,而澳洲家庭的规模却变得越来越小,这也加大了住房需求总量。
澳洲人购房求大求宽敞 住宅卧室空置率上升
据8月8日《悉尼晨锋报》报道, 澳洲统计局的最新数据显示,成千上万澳洲人为购买超大住宅而背负沉重的房贷,其实他们根本不需要这么大的空间。
澳洲统计局发现,现有住宅的平均卧室数量高于10年前,而平均家庭规模却减小了,没有子女的夫妻数量增加,单身人士也开始购买或租房子住。
根据ABC数据,在 1994年至2004年期间,平均每户人口从2.7降至2.5人,但卧室数量从2.9 升至3个。
澳洲有很多卧室空着没人住,根据2003-2004年的数据,77%住户有一间以上空置卧室,而现在至少有85%住户有一间以上卧室没人住。这些数据显示很多澳洲人为空间超过所需的住宅支付房租或背负房贷,同时也加大了住房需求总量。
Urban Development Institute of Australia新州地区总裁Scott Woodcock表示,由于房屋空置率降低,导致住宅需求量增加并加剧了住宅购买力危机。住户形式多样化意味着对多种形式住宅的需求,有关部门应该释放更多郊区土地。但是黑镇市长Leo Kelly表示他辖区内很多土地都可用,但开发商不愿意在这里建设住宅,很多基础设施建设跟不上去。
Nation's empty bedrooms a telling tale of our lives
August 8, 2007 Sydney Morning Herald
IN THE middle of a growing housing shortage comes ironic news: Australia is awash with spare bedrooms.
Figures from the Bureau of Statistics reveal that in 2003-04, 77 per cent of households had one or more spare bedrooms and 97 per cent of couple-only households had one or more unoccupied. At least 85 per cent of solo dwellers also had spare bedrooms.
Between 1994 and 2004 the average number of people per household dropped from 2.7 to 2.5, but the average number of bedrooms rose from 2.9 to 3.
The figures, published on the eve of today's expected interest rate rise, suggest many Australians are paying off loans on homes that are far too big for them.
Scott Woodcock, the NSW director of the Urban Development Institute of Australia, said all the unused rooms were driving up demand for housing, compounding the home affordability crisis.
"You have more divorcees, who need two houses, and a lot of singles who don't want a big family house," he said. "Then there's baby-boomer families which did have four or five people in the house but now the kids have left home."
Patrick Fensham, who co-authored the State Government's 25-year Metropolitan Strategy, said it would take a brave politician to encourage first-home buyers to scale back their expectations and get empty nesters to downsize. "You can, of course, get into more punitive rating systems," he said. "For example, you might start trying to raise the rates on properties you would like to see redeveloped so it becomes less affordable for someone to live there alone."
Leigh Hamlin, a retired butcher, needs no such incentive. His wife has died and his children moved out, so he is selling his huge three-bedroom Stanmore home and moving to the Central Coast. "I think if you are by yourself in a big house, it can be very lonely. Not only that, I am 63 and basically all the money is tied up in the house in Stanmore. I could put half the sale money into super and that's my security and income for the rest of my life."
The figures also show a surge in the mean equity of owner-occupied homes from $177,000 in 1994-95 to $297,000 in 2003-04. This suggested an emerging divide between the asset-rich and the asset-poor, said Bill Randolph, of the University of NSW's City Futures Research Centre. "So if your mum and dad happen to have bought a modest place in the North Shore 40 years ago, that may mean you have much more wealth than someone in a similar position whose parents bought a house in Parramatta," Professor Randolph said.
"And the large proportion that will never own - who will pick up the tab for their aged health care in 20 years time?" |
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