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JH, you seem to have an anti-property investor agenda. You also seem to have a lot of anger. Can I suggest a deep breath before you post, a reflection on what you're about to say, and a little less anger in saying it? You'll simply be expelled from this forum for trolling if you don't.

This is quite contrary to certain sectors of public opinion that claim PIs are outbidding homebuyers with their negative gearing advantage and so are the real cause of unaffordability. So, to what extent would you say that wealth polarisation rather than negative gearing accounts for...

An interesting line of thought, Bayview. Growing income disparities and the increasing polarisation of wealth is a worldwide phenomena though, while the high cost of housing (both to rent and to buy) is seen by many to be a particularly Australian problem. Is it the favourable tax treament...

Ah! Then I owe you an apology. I mistook your comment for sarcasm, as I was being quite serious in this thread. I'd be grateful if you'd forgive my blunder, Wobbycarly.

Why, thank you. I'm delighted you noticed! I tried frenetically to find somewhere for a semicolon, but was otherwise engaged in clarifying my argument to the exclusion of Poetics. (Notably the title of the companion work to Aristotle's Aesthetics, burned from history's memory by the Church for...

Naturally FHBs want their first home's price to go up, but is it the end of their world if it doesn't immediately? But that's not the point of the 'Affordability Critique'. Aspiring FHBs are aspiring to own precisely because they don't accept its basic tenet: That there's something...

A very interesting question. There appears to me two types of 'questioners' here as far as I can see: (1) Those that like property, but are voicing caution in what they see as uncertain times; and (2) Those that just pretend to like property to get an audience here. The latter might been...