WHY PROPERTY?

Australia is in a unique position globally having a rapidly-expanding population combined with a chronic shortage of housing, all of which makes the Australian property investment market a very attractive proposition.

This shortage puts upward pressure on rents, while tenant vacancy rates are at an historic low… with homes in some locations being tenanted even before the home is completed.

Property investment is and always has been, an affordable way for average Australians to grow their wealth and plan for a richer retirement. Lack of investment education and understanding hold most people back from realising a better lifestyle in the future and often they’re surprised by how little it costs to buy and maintain an investment property, especially with tenants and the taxman helping to cover the overheads! Your rental return, asset growth and other tax benefits can help you build greater levels of wealth over time with a property investment plan than you can with after-tax savings or most other investments.

Why?…because successive Governments’ inability to find ways to address the shortage of affordable housing and the rising limitations to entry to the property market (first home buyers) means that there is only one solution for the almost one third of the population that rent to find adequate housing – that solution is you, the individual property investor.

One of the many advantages of being a property investor in Australia is that the Government recognises the need for private investors to contribute to the rental pool and provides incentives by the way of depreciation and other tax rebates. Over 30% of the population already rent and with the decline in entry affordability likely to see this increase to over 40% in the next 15 years or so, the Government needs private investors to add to supply more housing than ever before.

So if the Government can’t come up with a solution that works then what does that mean for property investors? Firstly it means that the tax benefits will continue (Treasury modeling suggests the cost to the country would be far greater if the Government had to provide the subsequent shortfall in property if the incentives were removed) and secondly, that there is no short term answer to the undersupply issue. We see this is key to underpinning a strong property market and placing upward pressure on rents and prices into the future.

All of this, on the back of a very strong long term outlook for the Australian economy, means good news for the property investor.. and lots of great opportunities for investors for years to come.

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