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It might be my perception, true. But to me its common sense, no? On both my points the silence is deafening. No data, it just seems obvious to me.

Can you expand on this? My point is that if there is a housing shortage. Wouldn't that shortage (or excessive demand for housing) spill over to the rental market and raise rents much more than they have been over the last say, 10 years. People have to live somewhere. Buy or rent. In my...

Thanks. Looks like varying between 6% - 8% in the period i am talking about.

Not sure but they were definitely higher than they are now. By quite a bit i think. But still, yields were good enough to bring investors to the market in large enough numbers to create a boom. My god, i remember a few incidences of busses full of investors pulling up in regional towns and...

Its only cheaper to buy than rent in a select few dodgy suburbs with house prices about $200-$300k. As detailed in a newspaper article a few weeks ago (there is a thread here about it somewhere) But my point is if there is a general housing shortage, wouldn't it affect the rental AND the...

After the property boom in the late 80s the market was pretty flat for most of the 90s. As investors had left the market it reduced the amount of properties for rent and yields rose steadily throughout the 90s. I remember reading an article in the Sydney Morning Herald in 1998 about 10%+...

I believe it was said with tongue firmly in cheek. :rolleyes:

I think thats drawing a long bow prop. I don't think the average property buyer/investor would be open to the idea of investing in CFD's. Maybe a small percentage would. Just buying straight equities is scary enough for most of them.

That might be true, but it doesn't say he only a CFD trader. He might also have huge interest(s) in property for all we know.

I thought it was quite a good article. Especially this paragraph: "The facts are, as we suspected all along, the case for a housing shortage in non-existent. It does not exist. There is no housing shortage. That's because it is price that is the major problem in the housing market. Prices...