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Rent would rise to the point where institutions decide it's worth it to buy resi IPs. As per your second point, prices would likely fall before that. Alex

The problem is that people's sense of entitlement is GROWING. It's not just a block of land with a house anymore. People want shopping, cafes, restaurants and a reasonable commute to the city. There is no such entitlement mentality in Europe about owning a home. In the more expensive cities...

Indeed, not many years ago tenants were being offered rent free periods, and if I'd been looking for a place to rent I would have asked for rent free periods or a decrease in rent. How is this different? It's not. But for your average 'battler' its great when you can 'get revenge' on the...

My offspring can take care of themselves. Now we're on the same page. You definitely do NOT want me to perpetuate my values. I'll teach my offspring my values, though I'm not sure what they'll turn into if they get my values from birth. Still don't see what that has to do with whether we...

I don't necessarily disagree with any of that, but it's reality, and another bit of reality is that many of us started with no property and bought them one by one. What stopped everyone else from doing so? If people revel in cheap rents and buy plasmas and cool cars you can't turn around and say...

The average reporter (who probably doesn't own property and rents, by the way) wants to write sharp, punchy articles that appeal to as many people as possible. It's just far easier to present only one side of the argument and dehumanise the other side. Makes those nasty ambiguities disappear...

Ain't it terrible, Buzz? We just play the system and suck the battlers dry. Anyone else feel guilty? Jeeves, get me a glass of battler juice, chilled, with a dash of greed, please! Alex

I think a lot of mum and dad investors, being the decent sorts that they are, are reading the newspapers and feeling guilty about their greed. And no doubt getting an earful from their 'oppressed' friends. Of course, the media usually only attacks multiple IP owners (hands up, fellow...

I don't know whether I read it somewhere or came up with it myself, but I've said to people 'Look, if you complain and make excuses, you're going to find friends who feel the same way. You'll all share your experiences and you'll feel good belonging to a group that shares your views...

One word to people who say that: anwaddayagunnadoaboudit? They can make all the excuses they want. In the future, they're still going to be renting and making excuses. A thin layer of moral outrage isn't going to pay for the retirement. Alex