What i find alarming is builders going broke while real estate prices are booming. Something is wrong with the cost equations of our country . To much money out there with no place to invest it perhaps ?
I mean look at say the ability to invest superannuation into real estate ? Perhaps their is no where is to invest it securely with a long term time frame in mind and simply the amount of money looking for investment is to high in Australia .
Because we have been supporting investment rather than perhaps letting it crash the market is distorted to its normal machinations of boom bust which keeps prices real .
I don't know clearly but if you subsidise things the price seems just go up by the subsidy amount as it creates a demand that wasn't there before .
Negative gearing ive never understood why its allowed on properties that are not new only .
Taking in mind the value of the property say to the how many times the property can be negative geared .Their is nothing stopping a property being geared numerous times through its life cycle .
Anyway has been enjoyable read through the thread .
It comes back to economics in supply and demand perhaps .
You cant keep creating a demand without the supply being effected .
You need cheap land and lower costs for builders somehow .
Perhaps we sold off what kept our country with lower costs .ie the income generating industries the governments owned. The means of commerce the country used . ports rail electricity airlines banks insurance companies all which the government owned back in the day gone for ever .
Things were better before the gst was bought in perhaps .
No tax on building back then .
The state guvnuts reneged on the stamp duties that were supposed to be dropped with the introduction of the gst for one step in lowering costs .
