Feddit.frMelbourne goes from among the most to least expensive capital cities
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www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-19/melbourne-house-…
So increased land taxes and unoccupied home taxes do work to stop prices rising quickly.
Now take away negative gearing and CGT discounts and do all of this across the country!
that and a whole slew of minimum standards that are now making being a slumlord cunt very very unattractive
Also building more public housing and zoning laws favouring YIMBYs.
The article lists the policy settings as only part of the picture, amongst economic and demographic shifts.
I vote for this guy for prime minister.
And this will kill all small landlords, and we will end-up in situation like UK where single company can own all rental in a city. Dare to say something they do not like, you have to move.
In a housing crisis, there shouldn’t be any landlords.
If there were no landlords, who would pay for these houses? As has been stated many times, people cannot afford to buy a house with their own money. Landlords give them a chance to get a place to live by investing their money. The problem is that the housing crisis is mostly a creation of current policies. Too many restrictions, policies, and commissions. All of these are sucking money. It is hard to afford to build a house, even if you already own the land. Building something cheaper is not possible because it will not comply with current regulations. F$%it, Australia is not same as it was before, we can’t afford licensed plumbers, and shit build by the code. We need to give people a chance to build houses, and then the crisis will go away. (But this will drive property prices down, so the government will never allow that.)
The building codes are less stringent than they were decades ago, hence the drop in quality of housing compared to those built many decades earlier. It’s never been easier to get a home built. There’s a significant rise in remodeling homes at the moment because those who can afford it are doing it. I know because I do work with architects for these very people.
The hurdle is equity imbalance. The more houses you own, the more you can borrow. The more you own, the more you can rent or put on Airbnb and run as a hotel without having to pay corporate tax.
That and a lack of protection against people who do decide to build because if you get shafted by a builder, there is literally no one, no authority to turn to I’m order to get any deposits back. Much safer to build it yourself but can’t if you’re working to pay off your loans etc.
Bullshit.
Anyone know of somewhere to report vacant houses? I walk past a bunch that’ve been vacant for years now.
purplepingerstm@gmail.com keeps an updated spreadsheet of potentially empty tenancies.
Thanks, I was hoping for more of an official ATO link.
Why would the ATO care? Purple Pingers’ list might actually help it become occupied.
Vacancy tax.
Southbank had residential high-rise buildings that were at least 60% empty ten years ago - and that’s being generous. It seemed like they were nearly empty. From the outside at 8 pm, there were barely any lights on to indicate the presence of people in there.
They were owned by people overseas and kept in pristine condition to maintain a higher value. Is that still going on?
IDK but probably. God dam richers.
There are squatters networks if you wanted a different approach on that until the official
I’ll pass them onto pingers for the moment. Need to note down that actual addresses. There’s at least half a dozen places near me that’ve been vacant for more than a year.
And with massive amounts of people migrating here. Almost like the right is full of shit and immigration is inconsequential to housing prices.
Capitol/capital is one of the stupidest word pairs in the English language. Like, why didn’t they just settle on capitol for the seat of government including both the city and the building? And then use capital for large letters and money-related terms?