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Housing Now An Investors Playground
Feb 20th, 2026 at 8:57am
 
Housing now an investor’s playground   Sad
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New analysis today by ACOSS shows property investors are buying almost twice as many homes as first-home buyers, thanks to government tax breaks.

The analysis shows that the average property investor loan is around $100,000 larger than the average loan taken out by a first-home buyer, which guarantees investors a leg up at auctions.

The Greens say Labor’s tax breaks are directly responsible for investor advantage and have effectively created an investor playground that leaves first-home buyers behind.

Lines attributable to Greens spokesperson for finance, housing and homelessness Senator Barbara Pocock:

“Australia’s housing market has become an investor’s playground.

“Every time you crunch the numbers it gets worse and worse and that’s because of Labor.

“It’s no wonder that property investors bought twice as many homes as first-home buyers in the most recent December 2025 quarter.

“Labor’s tax breaks are directly responsible for investor advantage, giving first-home buyers no chance at auctions.

“It’s shameful that in the midst of a housing crisis, property investors get to treat the housing market like a game of monopoly, while first-home buyers and renters sigh in disbelief.

“The CGT discount and negative gearing are pushing up house prices, leaving renters and first-home buyers behind.

“Labor cares more about rewarding property investors with tax breaks than it does about building good quality homes at prices people can actually afford to rent or buy.

“The government must scrap the tax breaks for wealthy property investors. Labor has an opportunity to fix the housing crisis — but if they keep dodging real reform, they’ll lock a whole generation out of ever owning a home.”
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Reply #1 - Feb 20th, 2026 at 10:05am
 
THAT, my son is the entire game - to create a new class of over-heeled with all benefits and a set of classes below struggling to get by.  NOTHING has changed about the tax concessions all ways, nothing has changed about the banks' infinite preference for a 'business plan' that never goes broke since it cannot get sick or divorced or injured at work or becoe uemployed or in an accident or suffer any other catastrophe while literally living on the bread-line one pay away from disaster, instead of lending for HOMES to people who can scarcely keep up with rent and thus can't compete with the vultures for a HOME.

The fact that 'investors' pay a higher rate of interest means that those who are not vultures find it even harder to compete because they have to pay higher rent, and still pay the costs that prevent them BUYING their own Home.

THIS IS DELIBERATE POLICY, AND ACCOMPANIED WITH MASS IMMIGRATION HAS THE CLEAR AIM OF REDUCING THE PEASANTRY UNDER THE DESPOTISM OF NEO-POVERTY SO AS TO FACILITATE THE RISE OF THE NEO-FEUDAL LORDS AND LADIES, many of whom come from cultures you wouldn't spit on.

Let them eat cake... if you haven't woken up to that by now, you never will - and the most complicit party is the beloved New Labor that stole the last election from the people and looks likely to do it again in Victoria despite One Nation having a larger share of first preference votes.

You all know by now that forced preferential voting removes from the voter the inalienable right to dictate who they vote for - and you reckon this is a democracy.

Short of a major revolution of the REAL people - not the brain-dead inbreds out there with their intifada and jihad stupidity - there is no real hope for Australia - only looming disaster.

As Orwell said - 'the only hope lies with the proles' - most of whom are asleep at the wheel.... trapped in a cage and desperate .... that's the way to keep them!!
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Reply #2 - Feb 20th, 2026 at 11:09am
 
"now"
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Reply #3 - Feb 20th, 2026 at 11:43am
 
Did this "investigation" proceed beyond the doors of the Greens media department?
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Reply #4 - Feb 20th, 2026 at 11:56am
 
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-13/enviornment-and-corruption-concerns-raise...

“ The former Supreme Court judge said it was "deceitful" to suggest the laws related only to housing.

"Over the last 20 years, we have seen in NSW numerous examples of very serious corrupt conduct involving developers and others, interacting improperly with government ministers or senior officials to corruptly line their pockets," he said.”

I wonder if his referring to  “Seriously corrupt “ Glady government or Kristina  “ mean girl “ Keneally “most corrupt government since the rum rebellion “or perhaps both?

Does  One Nation have a housing policy?
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Reply #5 - Feb 20th, 2026 at 12:16pm
 
freediver wrote on Feb 20th, 2026 at 11:43am:
Did this "investigation" proceed beyond the doors of the Greens media department?


Well,  Menzies had a nation of home owners, NOT renters, in mind - in a scenario of stable housing prices.
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Reply #6 - Feb 20th, 2026 at 12:19pm
 
Daves2017 wrote on Feb 20th, 2026 at 11:56am:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-13/enviornment-and-corruption-concerns-raise...

“ The former Supreme Court judge said it was "deceitful" to suggest the laws related only to housing.

"Over the last 20 years, we have seen in NSW numerous examples of very serious corrupt conduct involving developers and others, interacting improperly with government ministers or senior officials to corruptly line their pockets," he said.”

I wonder if his referring to  “Seriously corrupt “ Glady government or Kristina  “ mean girl “ Keneally “most corrupt government since the rum rebellion “or perhaps both?

Does  One Nation have a housing policy?


Yes: get rid of the tax breaks for rent-seeking investors, and rebuild the nation's public housing stock, since private housing is now unaffordable for workers on the average wage.
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Reply #7 - Feb 20th, 2026 at 12:21pm
 
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Yes: get rid of the tax breaks for rent-seeking investors


What tax breaks do housing investors get that other investors don't?

Do you think rent will get cheaper if you do this?
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Reply #8 - Feb 20th, 2026 at 12:44pm
 
thegreatdivide wrote on Feb 20th, 2026 at 12:19pm:
Yes: get rid of the tax breaks for rent-seeking investors, and rebuild the nation's public housing stock, since private housing is now unaffordable for workers on the average wage.


Please give us all these "tax breaks", you know nothing to do with expenses or any of that rot. Roll Eyes
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Reply #9 - Feb 20th, 2026 at 1:15pm
 
It's just another mindless Greens class warfare policy dressed up as something new. If it was actually implemented it would harm the most disadvantaged Australians, not help them.
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Reply #10 - Feb 20th, 2026 at 1:46pm
 
you sure are obsessed with "the greens"

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Reply #11 - Feb 20th, 2026 at 3:07pm
 
freediver wrote on Feb 20th, 2026 at 12:21pm:
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Yes: get rid of the tax breaks for rent-seeking investors


What tax breaks do housing investors get that other investors don't?


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Housing investors in Australia access unique tax benefits, primarily through negative gearing, which allows them to offset rental losses (where expenses exceed income) against their salary or other income, reducing their overall tax liability. Key exclusive tax breaks include claiming building depreciation, structural improvements, and significant, non-cash tax deductions

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Do you think rent will get cheaper if you do this?


Not in the private housing market, no.



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Reply #12 - Feb 20th, 2026 at 3:16pm
 
freediver wrote on Feb 20th, 2026 at 1:15pm:
It's just another mindless Greens class warfare policy dressed up as something new. If it was actually implemented it would harm the most disadvantaged Australians, not help them.


No.

The Greens want to rebuild public housing; they are aware that decades of Thatcherite 'small government'  Neoliberalism has destroyed the 'Oz Dream' caused by encouraging housing as an investment vehicle for rent-seekers, rather than by maintaining affordable housing to live in. 
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Reply #13 - Feb 20th, 2026 at 3:23pm
 
It is all caused by the policies of successive Govts:

(1) mass uncontrolled immigration of millions of people when there was no proper housing for them.

(2) failure to train enough house builders.

(3) Capital gains tax advantages for investors + negative gearing.

(4) excessive red tape and charges when building houses.



That's what happens when you have a Uniparty -
a one party State with 2 branches: Labor and Liberal.
The phoney preferential voting system helps them win again and again.

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Reply #14 - Feb 20th, 2026 at 4:09pm
 
thegreatdivide wrote on Feb 20th, 2026 at 3:07pm:
Housing investors in Australia access unique tax benefits, primarily through negative gearing, which allows them to offset rental losses (where expenses exceed income) against their salary or other income, reducing their overall tax liability.


So they can claim expenses against their investment. Grin Grin Grin Grin
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