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They're not. The post by shadow includes all property, not just investors, so divide it by 3. And delete rates, they are paying for a service, not a tax. And negative gearing costs are nearly double that. Real investors would welcome the abolition of negative gearing, it gives an unfair...

Both, the two groups don't have a monopoly on those characteristics. Plenty of irrational investors & careful home owner buyers. I've seen many home buyers lose out at auction to investors willing to pay more, pushing up prices.

30% of buyers are investors. Say 1/3 of them wouldn't buy without negative gearing, so that's 10%. Removing 10% demand would result in lower prices (& hence better yields for invetors), greater home ownership, & lower private debt. All good things.

Negative gearing has robbed tens of thousands of families from owning their own home & given them to subsidised speculators instead. The arguments here in favour of it are a joke, 95% of speculators buy existing homes.