Residential property investment really only works in Aus if you have
Cap Gains
NG
Rent
The three have to produce a benefit
The government absconded from it's responsibility to provide rental housing by conning the people to do it for them, then they put policies in place to force house prices up
Now there is the continual talk of removing NG and also the very restrictive (Vic) changes to the residential tenancies act, plus the (Vic) land tax increase, not to mention bringing in millions of migrants who get preference to everything