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Australia, UK and NZ have deductible interest on investment properties. USA has deductible interest on PPOR, not sure about IPs. The idea of negative gearing is you lose money from a high taxed income to gain more via low taxed capital gains. But what if there aren't any capital gains?

Myla - so you agree that pent up demand is BS? If construction is down and prices are also down, that says to me that demand has fallen considerably. Real demand, from people with real money. But like the real estate agents have you focus on their made up rental vacancy rates not rental yields...

Just like the people who are trying unsuccessfully sell their homes are going to have to accept what someone else is willing to pay.

All you have to do is Google "shortage" or "pent up demand" for all of those countries to see a clear pattern. These arguments have all been used in every one of those countries and they have all been proven false. There was a speculative mania all over the world, but Australia with higher...