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The Australian property market is often discussed as though it is a single market. In reality it is a collection of competing asset classes attracting capital from different investor groups and when policy shifts the relative attractiveness of one, capital moves. The residential policy shift For decades, residential property investors have benefited from a combination of population growth, housing scarcity, negative gearing provisions and capital gains tax concessions. The 20

The 2026 Federal Budget changed the property investment landscape. But if you have been reading the headlines and wondering whether property investment still makes sense, the honest answer is yes. Here is the accurate picture. What actually changed From July 2027, negative gearing losses on newly purchased established residential property can no longer be offset against wages income. That is the change. One tax treatment, on one asset sub-class. What did not change New builds

My grandfather was a master builder in Sydney's eastern suburbs during the 1960s. He had immigrated from Europe after the Second World War — carrying with him a level of resourcefulness that I only fully understood much later in life. The story my father and uncle always told was this. During the war, my grandfather found himself in Russia, where the army discovered he was a skilled builder and put him to work constructing housing. He noticed that chimneys were being built us

July 2021, Australians are now dealing with the economic effects of COVID-19, needless to say the pandemic has effected every facet of...

One of my clients has a one bedroom investment in Sutherland Shire in an older style apartment building built in the 1960’s. The agent...

The year was 1991, I wanted to buy my first property, in fact I’d almost bought a retail shop at the age of twenty in Enmore NSW for...