The Root of All Evil in Australia Is The Astronomical Price of Housing

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  • čas přidán 21. 04. 2024
  • This clip was taken from the Equity Mates Investing Podcast episode 'Expert: Matt Barrie - Why house prices are the cause of today’s cost of living crisis'. Podcast episode released: 15 June, 2023.

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  • @EquityMates
    @EquityMates  Před 18 dny +26

    Hi all, this clip was taking from the Equity Mates Investing Podcast episode 'Expert: Matt Barrie - Why house prices are the cause of today’s cost of living crisis'.
    Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4gVY8mvJ9NKVKNOYh4heE2?si=a203abb173fd4904
    Apple: podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/expert-matt-barrie-why-house-prices-are-the-cause/id1212097275?i=1000617043903

    • @DirtySlapper99
      @DirtySlapper99 Před 12 dny

      It's a financial based religion

    • @silentwitness536
      @silentwitness536 Před 5 dny +1

      No. The root of all evil is the money hungry evil exploitative culture, whit men brought to Australia in 1788.

    • @digdougedy
      @digdougedy Před 4 dny

      @@silentwitness536 I agree with you. A large swathe of the planet was populated by people who were living a life in the stone age and were content to do so. Left to their own devices they would never have invented the steam engine, electricity or the wheel. If Europeans had not ventured out into the world, then there would not have been deforestation and pollution, but also no massive growth of the human population. The white man enabled the population to explode due to the industrial and farming revolution. The question is. Is it better to live in the stone age or the 21st century... There is really no answer except that the stone age, which was prior to the 18th century in Australia, was a life of simplicity laced with brutality, totally at the mercy of the elements..

    • @13aware
      @13aware Před 4 dny

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    • @TwoFourFourFour
      @TwoFourFourFour Před 2 dny

      Because a lot of other countries are shitholes in bigger messes obviously and our government is only too happy to give our money away to foreign migrants

  • @anon9753
    @anon9753 Před 15 dny +116

    What is unique about Australia is that we view housing as a site for wealth creation rather than places to live.

    • @silentwitness536
      @silentwitness536 Před 5 dny +3

      Whit european way of living vs Aboriginal way of living right there.

    • @FlynnTheDon
      @FlynnTheDon Před 4 dny +2

      We have the same situation in the UK. Those with good incomes or help from families can make it. Those who do not have those struggle.

    • @infinite8382
      @infinite8382 Před 4 dny +8

      the reality is that while we live in a capitalist society of the one with the most stuff wins, and yet we can not escape the fact that this model is our doom and that we need to look after eachother, for if we dont, the results are a broken society that effects everyone!

    • @kane-vn6bn
      @kane-vn6bn Před 4 dny +3

      I do that because of our governments inability to manage money or anything for that matter in the best interest of Australians.... the pension has disappeared, our super will..... I need to depend on myself

    • @petershaw6346
      @petershaw6346 Před 3 dny +3

      That's what happens when negative gearing can be applied to property

  • @chockablock34839
    @chockablock34839 Před 17 dny +70

    Part of the problem is the Australian culture of celebrating house price rises on news shows. This is NOT a good thing. And there is a stupid amount of land that could be given away for free to people building their first house.

  • @TheEvdoggy
    @TheEvdoggy Před 22 dny +380

    The fact that Aussies are paying over $600,000 for a basic block of land is completely absurd.

    • @jamesaustralian9829
      @jamesaustralian9829 Před 21 dnem +25

      I brought a house last year for under 100k because I have more than 5 brain cells and can live outside of an overcrowded metropolitan area.

    • @robertwalker7924
      @robertwalker7924 Před 20 dny +23

      and the Indigenous owners, the real owners of said stolen land dont get any of it..

    • @timsimon8995
      @timsimon8995 Před 20 dny +13

      @@robertwalker7924 but at least we thank them for the land at every opportunity we get 😆

    • @robertwalker7924
      @robertwalker7924 Před 20 dny

      @@timsimon8995 of course, but at least

    • @timsimon8995
      @timsimon8995 Před 20 dny +24

      Whenever I hear them thank them for the land we are gathering on, whether it's a sports event, or school assembly or whatever, I think, ok give it back to them then. It's like stealing someone's car but thanking them every time you use it, really rubbing it in 😄

  • @DK_Son
    @DK_Son Před 7 dny +48

    Our money is so tied up in trying to house ourselves, that there's no money left for us to start businesses, innovate, explore, skill up, etc. Our exports are average, because we aren't on the forefront of modern innovation, like we should be. I make more than the median, with no debt, no credit cards, no kids, very low spending, and I'm still not seeing where this starts getting good for me regarding just buying a house. I can't see myself buying in Sydney, ever. So I definitely can't see myself taking a leap to start a business, app, etc. Got no money for that.
    My friend sold his house recently. Newly-immigrated Indian family bought it. Paid 2m with like 7 loan guarantors. So in some cases, Aussies are losing to the buying power of entire families who don't care how much they pay. No surprise the average single or couple can't get in. The pollies do not give a shite, because they are all in the market too. They don't want to nerf their own properties. Our immigration is way too high. Houses are not being built fast enough to match local demand, letalone immigrant demand.
    The gov is also doing nothing to expand other coastal cities. If you want a modern career, it's Syd or Melb. You can't even take Brisbane that seriously, because most STEM jobs are Syd or Melb. No one moves to Coffs or Cairns for an IT career. Everywhere else in Aus is considered as being outside the rat race. Bruh, Canberra isn't even on the map, and that's the freaking capital. Companies are also taking back the remote opportunity that covid gave us. So you can't even move outside the capitals anymore, to get more house for your money, or to even just get a place at all. You need to go in every day, to do a job you could do from home. Brilliant modern thinking right there.
    The gov has really messed this place up, economically. We should be pumping out modern tech and improvements. But we're still stuck on step 1: get a house. This is so neanderthal.

    • @paulmarshall248
      @paulmarshall248 Před 3 dny

      Wow Australians are starting see that they are still just slaves to the banks ..

    • @Pat315
      @Pat315 Před 19 hodinami

      Well said. I would say that most IT professionals do have the ability to WFH though. It's the minority I would say who are required to go in any more than 1 or 2 days per week.

  • @karlosxzy
    @karlosxzy Před 17 dny +117

    Housing insecurity and affordability is destroying our society from the inside out.

    • @tom-lg2ep
      @tom-lg2ep Před 14 dny +2

      It really is. Crime is so rampant now too. Everything is going downhill

    • @hrausss
      @hrausss Před 13 dny +5

      Correction " it has allready destroyed".
      Inequality is here ....Even with massive policy change it is going to take over 15 years to fix this mess

    • @emelle1283
      @emelle1283 Před 12 dny

      It ALREADY has destroyed the country - it's FARKED, TOTALED, RUINED!

    • @infinite8382
      @infinite8382 Před 4 dny +5

      we live in a country with a nanny state government with all their laws, rules, fines, fees, permits, licences and still society is crumbling down around us. yet people continue to vote, asleep to the fact that it is the government that is allowing all this to happen. no one cares for each other in a world where everyone is focused on money and yet we forget we are all in this together.

    • @emelle1283
      @emelle1283 Před 4 dny

      @@infinite8382 NAILED it! They have coralled the majority of the population onto the house slave treadmill - all willing to take a kickback wth strings from the slave master (the ruling class) just to get one up on the Joneses (a better house and car) not realizing that when everyone plays that game it's just a race to the bottom for everyone, except the ruling class masters who are the only ones that benefit. The MORONS are going to sink the ship and take us all down with them.

  • @KarenLavia
    @KarenLavia Před 22 dny +446

    The fact that there is already an excessive amount of demand awaiting its absorption, despite how everyone is frightened and calling the crash, is another reason why it is less likely to occur that way. 2008 saw no one, at least not the broad public, making this forecast, as I'll explain below. The ownership rate was noted to have peaked in 2004 in the other comment. Having previously peaked in the second quarter of 2020, we are currently at the median level. Between 2008 and 2012, it dropped by 3%, and by the second quarter of 2020, it had dropped from 68 to 65.

    • @EddyAgnes-vy4kp
      @EddyAgnes-vy4kp Před 22 dny +2

      Real estate and stock investments may be good decisions, especially if you have a solid trading strategy that can see you through prosperous days.

    • @DorathyJoy
      @DorathyJoy Před 22 dny +2

      You're not doing anything wrong; the problem is that you don't have the knowledge needed to succeed in a challenging market. Only highly qualified professionals who had to experience the 2008 financial crisis could hope to earn a high salary in these challenging conditions.

    • @ScottKindle-bk3hx
      @ScottKindle-bk3hx Před 22 dny +2

      Recently, I've been considering the possibility of speaking with consultants. I need guidance because I'm an adult, but I'm not sure if their services would be all that helpful.

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      @DorathyJoy Před 22 dny +2

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      @CraigLloyd-fz6ns Před 22 dny +2

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  • @daniellesoulard5215
    @daniellesoulard5215 Před 22 dny +246

    Young couple marries, moves out of area to afford to raise kids, far away from their support network.
    Father works 2 jobs as its still expensive to service the loan.
    Kids grow up with an absent, tired, disengaged father.
    Marriage nears breakdown, alcohol and drugs to numb the pain.
    Family breakdown and all the knock-on effects that come with it. Depression, despair, violence, social decay.
    Its a good thing guns are not readily available here, there would be mass shootings frequently

    • @myday2704
      @myday2704 Před 20 dny +50

      Not to mention the kids spending their whole lives in childcare, after school care and school holiday programs. Then home alone on ipads and video games once they are old enough to stay home alone. And then society wonders why teenagers are anxious and depressed 😔

    • @SkandiaAUS
      @SkandiaAUS Před 19 dny +2

      You guys need to cheer up!

    • @kalencwil3924
      @kalencwil3924 Před 18 dny

      @@myday2704that’s why I’m not having kids

    • @esmeraldagreengate4354
      @esmeraldagreengate4354 Před 18 dny +14

      Exactly what we did. Moved 8 hours away from home to the country for cheap rent and a better childhood for our kids. What we didn't account for was the lack of jobs and decent paying jobs at that. Add into it the nepotism that comes with a small town and what an influx of people from cities buying all the houses and driving prices through the roof, we can barely afford the rent let alone to buy

    • @issaosama4937
      @issaosama4937 Před 17 dny +4

      Speak for yourself bro 😂Jesus Christ

  • @punkisdad1607
    @punkisdad1607 Před 22 dny +182

    Lived overseas for 20 years. Made decision to come home to be close to my parents and raise my kids in Australia. Good to be home, and I'm proud to be an Aussie, but it's been the biggest financial mistake I've made. Cannot believe the prices of housing and everything else along with it. I'm worried about my kids now.

    • @JP-qn4uo
      @JP-qn4uo Před 21 dnem +22

      Big mistake mate! Australia is rooted!

    • @kestertroy
      @kestertroy Před 21 dnem +14

      Same shituation here. Moved back just before covid and had my career and finance ruined, thanks to the bad covid policies and the lack of local growth in economy.
      Government made things look good and dandy by handing out free money to basically everyone, then only to extort it back from you multiple times higher via increased rates, significant inflation, and the uncalculated reckless spending of taxpayers money.

    • @fckyoutub
      @fckyoutub Před 20 dny +5

      Same here. Spent 10 years overseas. Moved back recently, now I see what's going on here I want to go back overseas. More chance of living 'The Great Australian Dream' abroad at this point.

    • @teamtoken
      @teamtoken Před 20 dny +15

      Where did come back to Australia from?
      Unless it was the UK you probably should have stayed. Australia is going off a cliff and the Australian dream is truly finished and probably never likely to return

    • @JH-jy1ye
      @JH-jy1ye Před 18 dny +9

      As an Aussie abroad for 8 years, I'm visiting QLD at the moment and tempted to move back. The weather, peaceful walks, and food are amazing. But I know it's unsustainable. Paying tax and a mortgage here would massively hinder my ability to get ahead, I can save $100k/year living abroad but would save almost nothing here.

  • @vagabond7883
    @vagabond7883 Před 21 dnem +326

    Amend the law to stop foreign nationals from being able to buy residential properties in Australia. This should also include people on any temporary Australian visas.

    • @honestpat7789
      @honestpat7789 Před 21 dnem

      Student visas and university fees are the wool our government is pulling over our eyes 😢

    • @stewartcash555
      @stewartcash555 Před 21 dnem +15

      Agree, but it will never happen, doesn't matter who's elected

    • @gortnewton4765
      @gortnewton4765 Před 21 dnem

      They get around that by using proxies who are legally able to buy. There's even been cases where immigrants on pensions have bought mulit-million dollar houses, but they have no income, no savings, they are just the proxy 'agent' for the mainland China money.

    • @tellyawhatmate
      @tellyawhatmate Před 20 dny +7

      Its not rocket science hey.. always thought this

    • @gortnewton4765
      @gortnewton4765 Před 20 dny

      They employ 'proxies' to buy the house for them who are able to legally buy the house. That's how they get around our laws.

  • @myday2704
    @myday2704 Před 24 dny +484

    Why would anyone want to move to Australia and into this mess? Anyone landing in Sydney airport risks becoming homeless once their hotel money runs out.

    • @Eric-kn4yn
      @Eric-kn4yn Před 24 dny +31

      Million and millons 👽 heading our way.

    • @CryptoKiwi
      @CryptoKiwi Před 24 dny +43

      kiwis move because nz housing is more expensive especially to income ratio... aussie isnt yet as bad as nz. were all exit liquidity for boomers

    • @12angryrealists
      @12angryrealists Před 24 dny +59

      News flash. Only two groups of immigrants are staying. The first group includes desperate workers who come here on student visas and never intend on leaving. Because Unis have lowered their standards so much, most don't end up finding skilled work with their qualifications and end up stuck in the gig economy. The second grpup includes those who have already made significant capital overseas and brought it here. They are usually >45 years of age. The group we should be attracting to stay, young highly skilled workers end up coming for a couple of years and then leave to greener pastures due to the cost of living.

    • @johnoneill1011
      @johnoneill1011 Před 24 dny

      Good. We need to make housing so expensive that only professionals and tradies with highly paid skills that are in short supply here choose to immigrate on a permanent basis. Foreign students paying full university fees are welcome, provided they either go home on graduation or get a high paying job here. Family reunion immigration should be stopped for 10 years.

    • @coopsnz1
      @coopsnz1 Před 24 dny +3

      @@CryptoKiwi no it not taxes much less in n z

  • @chopperking007
    @chopperking007 Před 24 dny +284

    Ban foreign investment ffs

    • @danielanders4773
      @danielanders4773 Před 21 dnem +35

      And foreign people!!!!!!

    • @kestertroy
      @kestertroy Před 21 dnem

      The grand irony is that the lazy government has been using easy money they get, from foreign investments and migrants' money from their "migration" scheme to cook up their books.

    • @user-qm8sc1jr9u
      @user-qm8sc1jr9u Před 16 dny +21

      Chinese buyers

    • @shinjiyoshida141
      @shinjiyoshida141 Před 16 dny

      Haha cry more,, not our problem you are poor

    • @shinjiyoshida141
      @shinjiyoshida141 Před 16 dny

      ​@@danielanders4773cry

  • @asaka616
    @asaka616 Před 18 dny +66

    Why would the politicians help to get housing affordable? It makes them rich.

    • @sledge6693
      @sledge6693 Před 14 dny +1

      Just like gambling.

    • @mntccd
      @mntccd Před 10 dny +1

      It’s a big club, and you’re not in it.

    • @paulywalnutz5855
      @paulywalnutz5855 Před 8 dny

      because if they dont, they will be on the menu

    • @ihatch67
      @ihatch67 Před 5 dny

      Agreed

    • @TM-pz2ue
      @TM-pz2ue Před dnem

      @@paulywalnutz5855Wishful thinking. After seeing how people responded during the pandemic I have no faith in the average western person . May as well be livestock.

  • @renross6726
    @renross6726 Před 17 dny +33

    I'm 63 and living in my van and can't afford a home on a disability pension.

    • @myday2704
      @myday2704 Před 3 dny +2

      That harsh 😪

    • @Nav_M
      @Nav_M Před 3 dny +1

      Move to south east Asia!
      I took my life savings and retired to a much cheaper country in my thirties!
      Own a 3bed flat, a 2bed investment flat and have savings to fund a modest lifestyle.
      You won't regret it!

    • @DownInFraggleRock977
      @DownInFraggleRock977 Před 2 dny +1

      ​@@Nav_Mthey said they are a disability pensioner

    • @Nav_M
      @Nav_M Před 2 dny +1

      @@DownInFraggleRock977
      Yes, disability pension can be ported if one wants to leave Australia.
      The pension amount is paid in full, just rent assistance is not paid if living outside of Australia.
      Can you imagine the life in say Thailand, on an Aussie 💰 pension?...heaven!!

  • @xpictos777
    @xpictos777 Před 21 dnem +93

    My house in Adelaide has gone up $130,000 in 8 months. That's more than most people's annual wage and it hasn't even been a year yet. If I sell it, I'll just have to pay that money to get something else to live in, so it isn't even a real gain. Meanwhile people who don't have that first house fall further and further behind.

    • @gravediggy
      @gravediggy Před 21 dnem

      good feeling to have positive geared property, if something ever happens god forbid you can cash out and you’ll have a nice little kitty in the bank

    • @Fred-yq3fs
      @Fred-yq3fs Před 19 dny +1

      You can draw on the additional equity, so that's a gain. It's a potential gain, but it's pretty easy to realize and many ppl do.

    • @dougdownunder5622
      @dougdownunder5622 Před 18 dny +2

      FYI. In 1983 to 88 I couldn't save enough to match the price increases. Eventually paid 30% as deposit.
      Around the same time, negative gearing wasn't allowed for a brief time, and rents sky-rocketed when I was renting.

    • @Spacemonkeymojo
      @Spacemonkeymojo Před 16 dny +7

      Exactly. Rising tide lifts all boats. It’s stupid.

    • @andrewdoyle1772
      @andrewdoyle1772 Před 16 dny +4

      Same with my house in Perth. Me and my wife's wage has gone up significantly since then and we're looking to buy another house. We're looking at half the land size and looking to pay double what we did for this house - and we're gonna struggle to pull that off. I have no idea how people earning more medium level incomes are able to afford anything within an hour's drive of the city these days. Really sad.

  • @simonsays1370
    @simonsays1370 Před 24 dny +242

    It all can be summed up in one big word: GREED.

    • @sandponics
      @sandponics Před 24 dny +5

      Or 'hard work', although some people in Australia have apparently never heard of that.

    • @tonykennedy1615
      @tonykennedy1615 Před 24 dny +1

      Ignorance.

    • @liamrmorgans921
      @liamrmorgans921 Před 22 dny +2

      Do you mean government greed?

    • @kieranpeet7167
      @kieranpeet7167 Před 22 dny +15

      It's all by design, it's happening all over the western world

    • @Robert-xs2mv
      @Robert-xs2mv Před 22 dny

      When I started one years salary bought a quarter acre allotment , two years salary bought you a basic house, one living space, one kitchen one bathroom two or three bedroom and a laundry space.
      Try that today! Has sweet f all to do with hard work, absolutely zero, it is 100% pure greed!

  • @soylentgreen6082
    @soylentgreen6082 Před 21 dnem +40

    We need to face the fact that the Australian housing market is grossly inflated. You can buy a Huysman classic townhouse in central Paris for the price of a cream brick venereal in Box Hill.

    • @digdougedy
      @digdougedy Před 4 dny +1

      Sadly, my mother, who is 80, sold her house in Brisbane recently and moved back to England. For the price of the the house in Brisbane plus another £200,000 she bought a flat in Chelmsford... £480,000 for a flat... Well, that's my inheritance spent... And yes. this stupid game of monopoly, which is what it is, needs resetting so that ordinary people can live without massive servitude to the people who have created the debt by printing money...

  • @aussiepride4877
    @aussiepride4877 Před 21 dnem +43

    RIP AUSTRALIA

    • @infinite8382
      @infinite8382 Před 4 dny +2

      australia was dead on its feet decades ago, but were only just feeling it now. if the past and the present are anything to go by, the future of this cuntry is not looking good. people are going to have to reinvent modern living cause who will be able to afford a house as house prices rise, leaving the floundering weekly wage amount for dead.

  • @lundi44
    @lundi44 Před 18 dny +19

    I’m glad the guest mentioned Australia not doing much or anything at all to diversify its economy. This has long been one of my pet peeves and something that keeps the country overly reliant on a handful of industries - and more vulnerable to global economic shocks.

    • @shanegordon3220
      @shanegordon3220 Před 8 dny +1

      The money invested in property would be better used being invested in startups, industry and r&d

    • @HantaleMedia
      @HantaleMedia Před dnem +1

      Unfortunately, most australians, and even government are very aware of that.
      But then election time rolls around and no one wants to be the party to make a big spend. Not when the iron and coal train is still chugging strong. :p

    • @kzbb9977
      @kzbb9977 Před 21 hodinou

      ​@@HantaleMedia its because ALL politicians are sitting on nice properties, investments, holiday homes etc and don't want the value to drop an inch hell even my own family have 4+ properties between them that they do not need... all the people in power are for the short term gains over anything long term for this country. It wont get better unless the Greens get in.

  • @jm1835
    @jm1835 Před 19 dny +28

    If anyone feels stressed out because of the housing situation, you should seriously consider moving abroad if possible. I went to Asia - having secure housing and not stressing about the ridiculous housing situation has been a serious quality of life upgrade for me. When I looked for rentals, an agent spent half the day personally showing me around a dozen properties all available to rent at different budgets, areas, etc. Renters hold the power and agents actually work for their commission.
    Compared to Australia where you're competing with 50 other people bootlicking the agent trying to beg for the privilege to pay 20% above asking price and 6 months rent in advance. And then you get evicted after a year because the landlord wants to sell, but actually they just wanted to increase rent another 30%...

    • @dimex3362
      @dimex3362 Před 17 dny +1

      I think people would… if they had any way of actually making money in Asia. As it is, you can’t live there unless you already have money or your job isn’t geography dependent. It’s great for single people that have non geography dependent ways of making money but what do you do for your family? Will they take the same job as you? Probably not, so they will make those small Asian denominations of wage or have to move back to a western country.

    • @JH-jy1ye
      @JH-jy1ye Před 17 dny +3

      @@dimex3362 Entrepreneurship is the only way. You could start a pretty ordinary online business that only makes a third as much as your salary in Australia and still be better off, it's the only true path to freedom. You're right that not everyone is capable of that though.

    • @mrsnrub282
      @mrsnrub282 Před 14 dny +1

      I would if I could

    • @luhole
      @luhole Před 14 dny +4

      Yeah it blows my mind that real estate agents earn so much money here 🙄 as if they actually have to work for any properties they sell or get rented. They are pushing paper, that’s it.

    • @TasmaniaIsAHole
      @TasmaniaIsAHole Před 7 dny

      Problem there is that many Asian countries, particularly in SE Asia, forbid foreign ownership of housing i.e Vietnam.Yet we don't. We've been sold out.

  • @basilgeorge9957
    @basilgeorge9957 Před 22 dny +96

    Australian debt system is a big slavery

    • @pharlapnz4630
      @pharlapnz4630 Před 15 dny

      Worse in New Zealand

    • @slickstrings
      @slickstrings Před 15 dny +1

      Yeah slavery. When you have no obligation to take out a mortgage, its entirely choice and the interest rates are driven by the global economy. Such slavery, much wisdom.

    • @MartintheTinman
      @MartintheTinman Před 15 dny +3

      ​@@slickstringsignorance is bliss

    • @TasmaniaIsAHole
      @TasmaniaIsAHole Před 7 dny +1

      ​@slickstrings Yeah pay your inflated rents you ungrateful plebs! I bought those houses 35 years ago for 1/10th of the price they go for now and I worked real hard after completing my free university degree to get them! Such a lazy generation tut tut.

    • @lioncross1849
      @lioncross1849 Před 5 dny +1

      Big usury

  • @TheNanoNinja
    @TheNanoNinja Před 24 dny +80

    I cracked it at someone at work for talking about 18% internet rates in the 70's. So my response was to what proportion of income and what were wages increasing by at that time.

    • @sandponics
      @sandponics Před 24 dny +8

      You should study the causes of the great depression in 1929. If you want to have a viable business in the future, open a soup kitchen.

    • @MrFastFarmer
      @MrFastFarmer Před 24 dny +30

      In 1970 my mum & dad bought their house for $24,000. Sold it in 2021 for $3.6 Million.

    • @Professor__S
      @Professor__S Před 24 dny +4

      18% internet rates in the 70's...😂
      Didn't know internet was available to anyone besides the government back in the 70's🤣.

    • @jamesaustralian9829
      @jamesaustralian9829 Před 24 dny +6

      In the 70s youd get a decent 4 bedroom house on good land, for 50k or less.

    • @darrenwilson8921
      @darrenwilson8921 Před 23 dny +9

      Why don't you retort with what the average interest rates on a savings deposit account was at the same time? What would people give now for 13%+ interest rates for their savings? It's all relative.

  • @ML6103
    @ML6103 Před 24 dny +39

    It's the underpinning of so many other issues in Australia. Also, think about all the other businesses or ventures we could be investing in if we weren't so obsessed with property

    • @ptadisbander7959
      @ptadisbander7959 Před 22 dny +16

      This. The obsession with property kills entrepreneurialism and innovation.

    • @user-qm8sc1jr9u
      @user-qm8sc1jr9u Před 16 dny

      Chinese buyers

    • @TasmaniaIsAHole
      @TasmaniaIsAHole Před 7 dny

      Well there was mining and agriculture but we sold that off to China so yay.

  • @baldrick6071
    @baldrick6071 Před 24 dny +72

    It’s simply not sustainable and needs to change! My kids, your kids have no chance of entering the market and can you imagine what that does to their mental health! Only those new Australians pouring in with $$ will be looked after! Shame!

    • @thelonewolf666
      @thelonewolf666 Před 24 dny

      they are not new australians, they are the enemy

    • @user-iv9hi2vm2s
      @user-iv9hi2vm2s Před 4 dny

      That’s capitalism at work for you… isn’t that a good thing.

    • @vish2553
      @vish2553 Před 4 dny

      My kids already bought their houses and are comfortably living in them. Reason? Hard work, education and family support. Yes, we have a housing crisis but work ethics here sucks big time especially in the building sectors, roofing and plumbing.

    • @baldrick6071
      @baldrick6071 Před 3 dny

      @@vish2553 that’s all well and good but not everyone is an academic that earns a good income. Others can have an exemplary work ethic and work their asses off for little return. And not all families are in a position to offer support.

  • @jacobkuntflapp
    @jacobkuntflapp Před 17 dny +17

    Yeahhh about 9 years ago, i was going to buy in Werribee for 375k 3 bedroom. The same house is 800k now. Forget about it.

    • @infinite8382
      @infinite8382 Před 4 dny

      we exist in a real life game of monopoly. we could change the rules tomorrow.....but we wont. the whole wretched system is made up. we seriously need to change it.....but we wont

  • @sledge6693
    @sledge6693 Před 14 dny +5

    Australia also has VERY lax investing laws & therefore international people interested in hiding their wealth can park their money in our housing market & the home either remains vacant or saved for the kids & balloons the prices as money is no object & they offer ridiculous prices & outbid the serious people needing a home now.

  • @nicolaasvanroosendael697
    @nicolaasvanroosendael697 Před 24 dny +49

    It is criminal that in a country with so many resources andavailableland a block to build a house is so expensive and there's no attempt to create materials that are modular so that housing is simple and cost effective.

    • @hesh2892
      @hesh2892 Před 23 dny +3

      That is the English Lords vs peasants system. Its been good for economy and increasing house values. The rich get their money back on the mortgages. A 4% mortgage for 1 M would mean, you pay 2 M over 20 years. So house price has to increase for owners to recoup their money 😮

    • @olddog-fv2ox
      @olddog-fv2ox Před 21 dnem +2

      Zoning laws, designed to protect the property portfolios of councilors

    • @user-qm8sc1jr9u
      @user-qm8sc1jr9u Před 16 dny

      Chinese buyers

    • @hesh2892
      @hesh2892 Před 16 dny

      @user-qm8sc1jr9u may be due to foreign buyers in cities. But it's mainly due to huge manipulation by government
      Done by zoning laws and restriction of subdivision . Hence prices even in rural areas are kept high

    • @weishi8620
      @weishi8620 Před 9 dny

      Plenty of vacant land, but not many want to build because the cost of construction went up by 50-100% in the last 3-4 years.

  • @houssein2291
    @houssein2291 Před 20 dny +22

    Foriegn owner ownership is a big problem. If only Australian citizens can buy homes and property the supply and demand will level out and and force prices to drop. Banks charging interest on mortgages is the biggest factor to making ownership/repayments too expensive.

    • @andyg9991
      @andyg9991 Před 13 dny +1

      Foreign demand is only a very tiny part of the problem, especially now the CCP has cracked down on its citizens taking money abroad. The issue always was, and always will be, supply and demand and the current Federal Government has done more to fuel demand than pretty much any government in history.
      Levels of immigration this high was always going to end in tears. Couple that with decades (yes decades, not years) of restricted supply by state governments that simply didn't want to pay for infrastructure in green field developments and you end up with the ludicrous scenario.
      And there is no quick fix available now. Its going to take at least a decade to sort this mess out simply due to the time it takes to build the infrastructure and homes required to balance the supply/demand equation.

    • @TasmaniaIsAHole
      @TasmaniaIsAHole Před 7 dny

      ​@@andyg9991Immigration is a large part of the problem. We're importing people in a housing crisis ffs. Where do you think they are going to go? The vast majority of them will funnel into the rental market. Shock horror that rental demand is sky high and prices go up..

    • @FreeAgent321
      @FreeAgent321 Před 23 hodinami

      @@andyg9991 plus decades of local government with their weird zoning laws, and other powers restricting new builds greatly.

  • @stevemolloy2747
    @stevemolloy2747 Před 22 dny +23

    Nation of renters 🇦🇺

    • @heatherwatson9564
      @heatherwatson9564 Před 20 dny +5

      You now need to do a video about the state of Renters in Australia
      Rents are outrageously high
      People working full-time on average incomes can no longer find a place to rent
      Those on lower incomes are in tents or cars.Mass immigration has worsened this problem
      Huge lineups at the few rentals that come up.Rent bidding although illegal is still taking place
      The vacancy rate in some states is under .5%
      Housing is a serious crisis in Australia whether you're renting or looking to buy

    • @stevemolloy2747
      @stevemolloy2747 Před 20 dny +4

      @@heatherwatson9564 33% of Australia’s population are renting.

  • @antpoo
    @antpoo Před 24 dny +113

    Housing prices are the root of our economy. Get rid of those prices and you get rid of our dodgy economy.

    • @markwick7898
      @markwick7898 Před 24 dny +3

      You meen give you easy life pmsl …. You want to live lazy buy a tent no sympathy from me

    • @hesh2892
      @hesh2892 Před 23 dny +10

      It's manipulated by govt. Done by zoning laws and restriction on subdivision. Otherwise people build in small towns and move there😮

    • @antpoo
      @antpoo Před 23 dny +17

      @@markwick7898 😂😂. How could you possibly make such a comment from what I wrote? I work my ass off, self employed in demolition and earthmoving and my development property just valued at $2.4 mil.
      I’m just stating facts.

    • @Robert-xs2mv
      @Robert-xs2mv Před 22 dny +3

      @@markwick7898pistols at dawn, survivor get the house! How much sympathy do you have now?

    • @olddog-fv2ox
      @olddog-fv2ox Před 21 dnem

      ​@hesh2892 spot on in our regional large town housing is priced quite sensibly and the scammers that are buying houses for their property portfolios aren't interested because they can't skrew any suckers

  • @JP-qn4uo
    @JP-qn4uo Před 21 dnem +16

    Get out of Oz before it is too late! The place is officially rooted!

    • @TheCanolaoil
      @TheCanolaoil Před 21 dnem

      Just buy a unit for 350k to 450k what's the big deal?

    • @bennysmith2007
      @bennysmith2007 Před 16 dny +8

      ​@@TheCanolaoilattitudes like yours, are why this ship is sinking.
      Perhaps people want a front & back yard, a shed, a garden, some space to be human & not live shoulder to shoulder in a pokey little unit.

    • @Grahamisthesword
      @Grahamisthesword Před dnem

      Ok. I am all for units. We need more high and medium density housing.
      You can have a unit with a shed, backyard, front yard and a garage I two car spaces.
      I should know I live in such a space. My backyard is about 6 x 9 square meters my front yard, excluding driveway and shed is 5 by 6 square meters. But anything over $300 is too much for a unit if it’s 20 km away from the cbd.

    • @TheCanolaoil
      @TheCanolaoil Před 20 hodinami

      @bennysmith2007 well too bad you can't have it , you need to deal with it, this is the new Australia where units are probably all you can afford in a decent location

    • @bennysmith2007
      @bennysmith2007 Před 41 minutou

      @@TheCanolaoil not even worth my time on a hateful little hand puppet.

  • @user-kb1hw2yq2f
    @user-kb1hw2yq2f Před 16 dny +7

    We are in the biggest bubble of ALL time. There are dozens upon dozens of bubbles in one giant bubble. When it bursts, we're going straight into depression, imo

  • @boofex1
    @boofex1 Před 21 dnem +24

    The building industry is sickening too

    • @merkins87
      @merkins87 Před 19 dny

      Great money laundering venture for criminals, both the ones that wear leathers & the ones in suits

    • @OGtrushalpatel
      @OGtrushalpatel Před 16 dny +1

      only affordable option left... in perth at least

  • @Bee_Bill287
    @Bee_Bill287 Před 19 dny +21

    If you spend 5 mil in Australia you instantly get a visa for the whole family regardless of any qualifications. So the easiest way to spend that amount is on property.
    However if we sold our Gas at the same price the Arab countries sell it Australia would be so rich we wouldn’t need to pay taxes. Our Gas is sold at the lowest price in the world and yet we have the highest reserve then anywhere else. This is the real evil.
    I watched a doco the other night that said 60% of over 60’s women are now homeless. The political parties don’t care about Australian people all they care about is what is in their pocket. Vote them all out.

    • @knyght27
      @knyght27 Před 16 dny +3

      60 percent of women over sixty are homeless? Where on earth did you get that ridiculous statistic? Are you telling me that if I go down the street and speak to 10 women over sixty, six of them will be homeless?

    • @mrgoodygoodygumdrop
      @mrgoodygoodygumdrop Před 15 dny

      What bullshit are you on about my god

    • @DanfromOz
      @DanfromOz Před 13 dny +1

      ​@knyght27 its so obviously bullshit, they are more likely to be the ones with 3 million plus net worth and 150k cars

  • @danyurr5304
    @danyurr5304 Před 15 dny +11

    house next door has been empty for 7 years. The owner lives overseas and can't be bothered renting it out.

    • @moodycxnt
      @moodycxnt Před 2 dny

      Tell purplepingas

    • @HantaleMedia
      @HantaleMedia Před dnem

      That's a tax issue. Unless you use the 6 year exemption, the moment they rent the place out it's open to capital gains tax. Which means if they rent it out they probably LOSE more money in tax when they sell the place than they get from renting.
      Why rent when your house goes up 10%+ a year, right? ;p

  • @MetroidMan90
    @MetroidMan90 Před 21 dnem +24

    How on earth could any company be competitive in Australia when they need to pay a wage allowing workers to buy a million dollar home and in asia they just need to pay a wage for 150,000 dollar homes? Americans have no idea how good they have it. I believe housing prices won’t go down in australia in nominal terms ever but they will in real terms i.e houses stay the same price but bread is 20 dollars and the AUD is worth 30 US cents

    • @kestertroy
      @kestertroy Před 21 dnem

      Hold on. That don't make any sense at all. "... won't go down in nominal terms but will go down in nominal terms..."? What does that mean?

    • @MetroidMan90
      @MetroidMan90 Před 21 dnem +3

      @@kestertroy I mean won’t go down in nominal terms but will go down in real terms

  • @Beef_Supreeeme
    @Beef_Supreeeme Před 17 dny +13

    All of the people in charge (left or right) are property investors who benefit from maintaining or accelerating down the current path. There is no way out of this. Future generations are screwed.

    • @mattl1250
      @mattl1250 Před 15 dny

      Vote greens, most of them don't even own investment properties

    • @kane-vn6bn
      @kane-vn6bn Před 4 dny +1

      dont vote greens... please

    • @FreeAgent321
      @FreeAgent321 Před 23 hodinami

      @@mattl1250 great, so when the greens make it apart of their policies and campaign to ban politician ownership of investment properties, and a pathway to reduce politician pay and benefits over a 4 year period, I'll vote for them. Spoiler, none of that will ever happen, ever.

  • @flygulfstreamg650
    @flygulfstreamg650 Před 24 dny +71

    It all comes down to the complex tax structure and the fact you don’t have many other options to save money in Australia as everything else is taxed 5 to 6 times before you get it .

    • @coopsnz1
      @coopsnz1 Před 24 dny +7

      more than 125 taxes in australia

    • @AAAA-vu7fp
      @AAAA-vu7fp Před 24 dny

      That is deliberately so.
      Australia has aaa rating due to house prices being so high.
      If a countries house values are high a country gets aaa rating.
      Australia has SOLD OFF all mineral rights of this country to china so all they have is housing

    • @chriskalifornia7333
      @chriskalifornia7333 Před 24 dny

      Serious question could you tell me a few for an article I'm writing. For instance I'm saying the 40 cent levy on every dollar of petrol is a tax and a completely unjustifiable one. It's literally stealing.​@@coopsnz1

    • @johnoneill1011
      @johnoneill1011 Před 24 dny +3

      Don't think that new apartment you buy from High Rise Harry is untaxed. Aside from over $50k of stamp duty you pay, his average 2-bedroom apartment that sells new for $1.1m has $300k of various government charges built into it. So, you are really paying $1.1m for an $800k apartment that cost Harry around $650k to create before government charges.

    • @ML6103
      @ML6103 Před 24 dny

      So true

  • @billmago7991
    @billmago7991 Před 23 dny +20

    Housing affordability also effects business in that if you're trying to sell your business banks only lend to home owners not renters. For people who try and sell their franchise, their is no one to buy it , anyone with money just buys another house . Nothing will be done because most of the politicians in Canberra are landlords

  • @sledge6693
    @sledge6693 Před 14 dny +3

    I remember seeing a home sold for 900k about 13 years ago, it was resold with only a new coat of paint 2 years later & doubled their money. That was expensive paint!.

  • @nandaska1
    @nandaska1 Před 20 dny +9

    Same over here in NZ, buying a house is becoming out of reach for most, even working couples, cost of rent too makes it diffucult to save!

  • @vladbereza4550
    @vladbereza4550 Před 20 dny +63

    Australians had a chance to remove negative gearing and CGT in 2016 and 2019 with the Labour Party but of course they voted no. Labour in 2021 decided to give up on tackling it. You can thank the boomers for the hot mess we’re in right now.

    • @libatalklieb5793
      @libatalklieb5793 Před 20 dny +8

      Haven't you realized that we live amongst morons? I am a boomer with more than one property and i voted for the Labour Party to abolish negative gearing. So get your facts right buddy.

    • @Jacqui-ie9kw
      @Jacqui-ie9kw Před 20 dny

      just look at the clown show!

    • @vladbereza4550
      @vladbereza4550 Před 20 dny +21

      @@libatalklieb5793 You aren’t representative of the majority of your age group though.

    • @libatalklieb5793
      @libatalklieb5793 Před 20 dny +2

      @@vladbereza4550 I am sure that not all that voted for slowmo were boomers

    • @vladbereza4550
      @vladbereza4550 Před 20 dny

      @@libatalklieb5793 We’ve already established that.

  • @NameZippy1
    @NameZippy1 Před 24 dny +34

    Perhaps people need to stop saying “enter the house market “ . When you drink water, do you “enter the water market “ ?

    • @Eric-kn4yn
      @Eric-kn4yn Před 23 dny

      What term would u use.

    • @user-sp4gy7ko5l
      @user-sp4gy7ko5l Před 20 dny +9

      @@Eric-kn4yn He is simply saying that housing should be a right NOT an investment.

  • @paulf.5261
    @paulf.5261 Před 18 dny +10

    I only make about $550 pw. I rent in Mandurah, south of Perth.
    In the middle of last year my rent was $300pw. New owners bought the house and the rent went up in November to $350pw.
    Next week it's going up again to $450pw ( May 2024 )
    That means my rent is about 80% of my income 😮🤕

    • @SuperBozz
      @SuperBozz Před 18 dny +3

      Solution Simply make less income then get into debt to pay for someone's house
      x -treme negative gearing

    • @SuperBozz
      @SuperBozz Před 12 dny +1

      @@MXRiderFiftyTwo just because it's common doesn't mean it's less of a problem
      It's not like we can all share disappointment

  • @bradfrazer4137
    @bradfrazer4137 Před 20 dny +9

    Brings me to tears when I see the price of housing, what has happened to my country

    • @McFluff88
      @McFluff88 Před 5 dny

      Immigration off the charts to prop up this ponzi scheme.

  • @boagski
    @boagski Před 14 dny +20

    Australia has enough minerals and mining to be as wealthy as Dubai. We pay companies to mine and sell our commodities. And we pay the same people for our commodities.

    • @adods9824
      @adods9824 Před 12 dny +11

      Yes, and we don't tax those industries anywhere near enough! Qatar gets $30 Bn a year for its gas, world's second biggest exporter. No citizen pays tax there. We are the biggest gas exporter, we get $1.5Bn...we are heavily taxed! WTF ????!!!!!

    • @josebohorquez2633
      @josebohorquez2633 Před 6 dny +1

      Australians are more worried about boating, camping and fishing. In my personal level I am getting out of the rat race. But I know not everybody can’t do it. I hope you guys wake up .

    • @ragebait988
      @ragebait988 Před 4 dny

      Mining also benefits the breast implant industry

    • @stevenbrown2401
      @stevenbrown2401 Před 4 dny +1

      We are being fleeced simple as that

  • @dancooper5741
    @dancooper5741 Před 23 dny +5

    Correction …..the video states the median wage is $94k …….wrong , that’s the s Average wage …..the Median is $65. The median income guy is the guy in the middle between the top earner & the bottom earner. ….which is where most people are. The billionaires “skew” the Average income figure , but not many of them,

  • @egl3369
    @egl3369 Před 17 dny +7

    We are in this situation because houses sell to the highest bidder. You should have to be a resident or citizen to buy land here.

    • @user-yf5cd2ep6y
      @user-yf5cd2ep6y Před 4 dny

      It is not foreign investors driving prices.
      They are such a small percentage of the market.
      It is simply supply is well under demand.

  • @helsbels2582
    @helsbels2582 Před 17 dny +7

    The people responsible for this is government and their policies, allowing overseas investors to buy in, tripling the influx so more competition and not limiting property investors. And real estates, because of supply and demand are taking advantage of this and using everything trick in the book to get the best price possible. We have them to thank for high house and rent prices and it will remain high.

    • @mrsnrub282
      @mrsnrub282 Před 14 dny

      And who voted for those governments?
      Yeah, we have no one to blame but ourselves. We deserve this. What's going on now is just simply the consequences of our actions.

  • @colinherbertson
    @colinherbertson Před 20 dny +13

    This situation will cause a severe drop in the birthrate if my adult children are any sample of this horrible reality. I think successive governments have encouirage insane house price growth to make people feel wealthy without the need for higher wages. People are funding their lifestyles, not with wages but with the inflationary house price growth. It is a disaster of the highest order and it is creating a huge social division

    • @andyirons7162
      @andyirons7162 Před 17 dny +1

      It will reset very soon. The 40yr bond bull market (that started in 1980) came to a cyclical end in ~2020 as bond yields started to rise. We are now entering a cyclical multi decade period or rising interest rates. 10/11/15% will be a reality in 4-5 years as inflation is now out of control...watch every asset bubble pop.

    • @CarbonTaxLOL
      @CarbonTaxLOL Před 15 dny +3

      And if your children are same as me (25 years old), we have had to go through University that costs money to attend, using petroleum that is more expensive, living in black mould accomodation that is decrepit, getting sick and diseased, attending hospitals that are overcrowded, all so that a Gen X”we can negative gear another house. Whilst we studied medicine and engineering to get paid the same as a delivery driver, while we get slaves from overseas (750k) of them to get trapped in the Australian housing loop and become life long tax payers, whilst we wait for our parents who we love to die just so we can start life. Incredible. Well done Liberal government.

    • @adods9824
      @adods9824 Před 12 dny

      ​@@CarbonTaxLOLwell said..well done upper class elite Liberals. Enslaving everyone else to ensure the Aristocrats increase their wealth at the expense of the lower classes. They've gamed the whole economic system; spun it to their advantage ...

    • @AK-np4rp
      @AK-np4rp Před 6 dny

      ​@@CarbonTaxLOL.The Labor.govt post Keating have been just as bad.

  • @jacklee5001
    @jacklee5001 Před 20 dny +6

    13.3times is calculated based on wage before tax… if you use the wage actually received after tax..
    It’s more like 20 times

  • @CFox.7
    @CFox.7 Před 20 dny +6

    20 years ago the ads started on Aussie TV - That Queenslander telling people to use leverage to buy investment properties.. Well.. Australians.. with their FOMO sure listened. Now we allow foreign purchases through buyers advocates and proxies. Government loves the cash injection and stamp duty.
    On Q and A they listed the investment propety assets of senators and I believe the very person responsible for overseeing housing was the lady of Indian appearance who had SIX investment properties on her books. When challenged.. she tried to say "its a very complicated issue"

  • @briancavanagh7048
    @briancavanagh7048 Před 20 dny +7

    There is a great divide in Australia which has an age cutoff for the majority of home owners. The younger working people are left out housing market. The political parties are avoiding doing anything to solve the problem. Gutless leadership.

  • @stevenponte6655
    @stevenponte6655 Před 23 dny +9

    Immigration is one of the reasons for house prices but it is not the only reason.

  • @truthian9300
    @truthian9300 Před 23 dny +39

    This housing situation will destroy this country if nothing changes

    • @pennywise4843
      @pennywise4843 Před 20 dny +9

      What? The country was destroyed long ago.

    • @emelle1283
      @emelle1283 Před 18 dny +10

      It already has - i left in 2013 because it was already long gone.

    • @chrisb3189
      @chrisb3189 Před 17 dny

      It was cheap back then tho​@@emelle1283

    • @Mikamichae
      @Mikamichae Před 7 dny

      ​@@emelle1283 i lived in sydney 5 years ago is was amazing, so much better than where i am from
      Typical privileged aussies haha

    • @SOBERKINGS
      @SOBERKINGS Před 6 dny

      @@emelle1283 where did you go

  • @trev1978
    @trev1978 Před 19 dny +9

    Get rid of NEGATIVE GEARING or at least limit it to 2 or 3 properties FFS! Seriously considering leaving this rip off country i was born/raised in for 45 years

    • @andyg9991
      @andyg9991 Před 13 dny +1

      Negative gearing is not the problem, and getting rid of it won't be the solution. Do people really think that the reason there is a lack of housing is because an investor can claim a loss on an investment property when the costs of ownership are greater than the income , on their personal income tax bill?
      Don't forget that as interest rates rise, more properties will go from being positively geared to negatively geared and vice versa as rates drop. That does not change the underlying cause.
      The reason is that governments of all persuasions for decades have restricted the development of green-field sites and NIMBY's have restricted the re-development of inner city and affluent suburbs causing a lack of supply and our high (and now astronomical) immigration rates increases demand further.

    • @trev1978
      @trev1978 Před 13 dny

      @@andyg9991 if negative gearing isn’t a contributing problem then WHY is the house 3 doors up from me gone from being a humble 3 bedroom FAMILY home to being a rebuilt 6 bedroom home Air bnb - now owned by old couple who own 5 other houses that they rent out to rich pricks?! Young families are forced out for the rich negative gearing greedy parasites. Australia is now a housing disaster.

    • @trev1978
      @trev1978 Před 11 dny

      @@andyg9991 then why is the newly built 6 bedroom house up my street becoming an airbnb, which is owned by rich couple with 5 other houses in their name?! They obviously negative gear like greedy parasites. The 6 bedroom house block used to be a modest family 3 bedroom home- the young family were forced to move to even worse home cos of greedy bastards like this.

    • @AK-np4rp
      @AK-np4rp Před 6 dny

      ​@@andyg9991Negative gearing is *part* of the problem. Economic analysis has shown this. Google it.

  • @damienretro4416
    @damienretro4416 Před 17 dny +4

    He describes the problems with such clarity. Watching the big TV news channels has taught me nothing about any of this. Almost seems by design.

    • @helenegan1079
      @helenegan1079 Před 6 dny +1

      Watch The Duran to understand what its about! Censorship in Aust is over the top! No more wars for the US!

    • @shannonmarshall5233
      @shannonmarshall5233 Před 5 dny

      that’s because it is….

  • @wavesnowaves
    @wavesnowaves Před 22 dny +7

    International students are also a huge money maker for us, but at the cost of having to house them.

    • @kestertroy
      @kestertroy Před 21 dnem +2

      The migration scheme is also a huge money maker for the local economy, but at the cost of having to house them.
      Make no mistake, international students do not fatten our wallets, it enriches the government coffers.

    • @user-sp4gy7ko5l
      @user-sp4gy7ko5l Před 20 dny +1

      Us? Us? Where is my cut?

  • @AAAA-vu7fp
    @AAAA-vu7fp Před 24 dny +16

    Totally
    The prices dont make sense and people really cant afford to live in even a rental place let alone in a purchased property

    • @sandponics
      @sandponics Před 24 dny +2

      You should have purchased a house in 1971 before prices began rising.

    • @JF-xm6tu
      @JF-xm6tu Před 24 dny +2

      ​@sandponics yeah. When I was - 36 years old

    • @davidwilliams7552
      @davidwilliams7552 Před 21 dnem

      They can afford to but will.not move from the same three big cities.

    • @ytfrank4412
      @ytfrank4412 Před 19 dny +2

      @@davidwilliams7552 there is not much work in rural towns

    • @AAAA-vu7fp
      @AAAA-vu7fp Před 5 dny

      ​@@sandponicsyou mean people can buy a house before they are born??? Tell me more ,want to know the secret to rhat

  • @Dannyttttr
    @Dannyttttr Před 24 dny +19

    I think it’s actually worse than that the average income is $90,000 but the median income in NSW is 55,000(I thought it was 60,000 but ABS data says lower) the top earners drag that average up alot

    • @djdanzy
      @djdanzy Před 23 dny +1

      So wait... what? most people earn 55k a year in australia over there?

    • @whiterabbit3439
      @whiterabbit3439 Před 21 dnem +6

      Most = "mode"...median is mid point (more accurate than "mean" with outliers.

    • @wizrom3046
      @wizrom3046 Před 21 dnem +3

      ​@@djdanzy median means half the people earn less than that, half the people earn more.
      And 55k AUD is only about 38k in USD

  • @learnpowerfully
    @learnpowerfully Před 21 dnem +4

    What you’re missing with “medians” is that the median land size has shrunk and the median distance to work is 2.7 times longer commute. Median household income is now generated by 2 FTE incomes rather than the 1980s 1.4 FTE incomes. The entire distribution has fallen off the right side and medians hide the real story.

  • @andrewdavis8137
    @andrewdavis8137 Před 24 dny +21

    IMHO. It’s interest rates being too low, for too long, for too many. It’s a real shame that we have pumped so much capital into something that produces (for principal places of residence) absolutely nothing. Crazy stuff.

    • @Turd_farmer
      @Turd_farmer Před 24 dny +6

      That and first home buyer grants and schemes.

    • @Zxcvbueisn444
      @Zxcvbueisn444 Před 24 dny +4

      My friend works in Uk for a major bank. They just bought 10,000 flats last year to rent out. My guess is this is happening over the world. So much spare cash in banks and investment companies that they dont want to loan to small people. They are creating rental generation which they make more money from

    • @sandponics
      @sandponics Před 24 dny

      My place provides shelter, is comfortable to live in and I grow all of my own food for virtually zero cost, and it only cost $107,000 to build in 1988, what is wrong with that?

    • @daleviker5884
      @daleviker5884 Před 22 dny

      @@johndwyer2486 So everyone should be aspire to nothing more than eating lentils twice a day and listening to Che Guevara speeches for entertainment? Civilization arose because some people craved more than living in caves wearing mammoth skins. Thank god some of our ancestors had ambition.

    • @sidecarmisanthrope5927
      @sidecarmisanthrope5927 Před 20 dny +4

      @@sandponics : Unfortunately for most people they don't have a wayback machine to take them to 1988 when houses were more affordable.

  • @k.b4273
    @k.b4273 Před 25 dny +16

    I will be sharing this with everyone!

    • @goosefoots
      @goosefoots Před 24 dny +1

      Why? For comedy? It’s nonsense.

  • @patcummins6036
    @patcummins6036 Před 20 dny +9

    While we have a two party system and both are owned, lock, stock, and barrel by overseas interests, it will never change until that “ mother of all bubbles”, bursts!
    This will lead to “the mother of all depressions”!
    It is all our fault because we accept the lowest of the low as politicians!

    • @BigMan.270
      @BigMan.270 Před 5 dny

      They're just a reflection of our society. Until society, fundamentally changes. Just expect more of the same.

  • @justindressler5992
    @justindressler5992 Před 24 dny +37

    Housing is enslaving Australia there will be no more small businesses or holidays or freedom to leave your job. People will spend there entire life paying the mortgage off without a cent in savings to show for it. We are still lucky biggest the biggest employer in Australia can print AUD.

    • @sil8ty01
      @sil8ty01 Před 9 dny

      Correction - the capitalist banking system enslaves us. Which is run by a collective of Zionists, as we know but people are F dumb.

    • @wombathead87
      @wombathead87 Před 4 dny

      Be nice to have a mortgage. stuck paying off someone else's dream and place of retirement. Then us renters will just drop dead at work if we make it to old age.

    • @justindressler5992
      @justindressler5992 Před 4 dny

      @@wombathead87 I understand that, it's even harder for people who rent. If government policy to make housing more affordable had done a dam thing we could all work and own a house. But retirement for most is now just a dream in Australia the government has supported policy for the rich and that's because they are the rich. Even in some countries the boomers are coming out of retirement due to inflation eroding their savings. I really don't see many people being able to retire at this point as economic output per capita is going down and wealth is shifting to the one percent. Automation and AI will be the final nail in the coffin for the working class. All I can say is try and find a job you enjoy if possible so at least your time working for someone else's dreams won't be so miserable.

    • @wombathead87
      @wombathead87 Před 4 dny

      @justindressler5992 appreciate the reply mate well put.

  • @Rockett24
    @Rockett24 Před 18 dny +4

    Median House Price where I am....$1.3M (bought for $1.2M...12 months ago)
    Median Wage.....not exactly sure, but our household is approx $200k pre tax.
    Ratio - 6.5x
    Now our house is nice and all, but its a standard 4bdrm....2 lounge.....2 bth.....3 car place on a 780m2 block.
    This is not what comes to mind when you think $1.2M - $1.3M.

  • @jesterz4635
    @jesterz4635 Před 25 dny +14

    10/10 Clip

  • @edawg654
    @edawg654 Před 18 dny +5

    THE MONEY IS BROKEN. There is no store of value in the AUD. It’s debasing due to monetary inflation. House prices are just a symptom of the deeper disease.

  • @itspaintosee
    @itspaintosee Před 2 dny +1

    Same thing has been happening in Ireland for years now. The government themselves sell and allow big developers to sell huge blocks of housing to foreign investment funds to rent at exorbitant prices. To that add the synthetic inflation of buildings materials being put on the consumer and then some. Owning your own home is more of a dream than a goal these days.

  • @gmtime5439
    @gmtime5439 Před 19 dny +16

    It’s a simple supply and demand equation. 700k plus net migration per year with no means to build enough new dwellings to house them.

    • @sejb2002
      @sejb2002 Před 17 dny +1

      No shit Sherlock. But we’re trying to name and shame and find a solution not point out the obvious!

    • @user-qm8sc1jr9u
      @user-qm8sc1jr9u Před 16 dny

      Chinese buyers

    • @gmtime5439
      @gmtime5439 Před 16 dny +1

      @@user-qm8sc1jr9u and who allows people from China to purchase Australian property?

    • @TheIceyeddy
      @TheIceyeddy Před 16 dny

      Spot on, was just about to post this comment, then I saw yours, so no need :)

    • @gonzoexpress9885
      @gonzoexpress9885 Před 14 dny

      It's called unwanted mass-immigration.

  • @R.E.A.L.I.T.Y
    @R.E.A.L.I.T.Y Před 22 dny +5

    What happens without competition? PRICES SURGE. Comm Bank was privatised then public were reamed by the banks.
    10% of OZ housing was Public Housing. Only 1% today. After it was privatized the Public are REAMED.

  • @andrewlevy8134
    @andrewlevy8134 Před 20 dny +5

    Tax reform is a part of this entire equation as well. We derive more than 60% of all revenue in Australia from 'INDIVIDUAL", tax returns. that pool of individuals is diminishing...successive governments have not and do not tax our resources adequately. Norway Taxes there resources at approximately 80%, their sovereign wealth fund is massive (a country of around 5.5 million people) Qatar receives approximately 29 Billion dollars in tax a year from their Gas resources in Tax (they are the second largest producer of gas in the world, WE ARE THE FIRST) our tax on our gas exports bring in about 1.5 billion.....and leave us with little or no gas for domestic consumption to the point where we will begin to import gas!!!!!! WTF..........

  • @fightington
    @fightington Před 20 dny +4

    the root of it is fractional reserve lending by banks, unregulated property ownership - the insane price of housing is the shit fruit of that

  • @mapp0v0
    @mapp0v0 Před 18 dny +4

    About time someone talked about this.

  • @tonybruce
    @tonybruce Před 21 dnem +7

    We can't go backwards now, which is horrible, so can we cap it? No negative gearing, 1 house per person, no investment properties. From now, do it.

    • @landspide
      @landspide Před 20 dny +3

      It'll go backwards along with the dollar, EVERYTHING is going to get expensive once the chickens come home to roost.

    • @mrsnrub282
      @mrsnrub282 Před 14 dny

      That will literally never happened. In 2016 and 2019 Bill Shorten offered legislation about 20% as radical as you suggested and they were profoundly rejected. We deserve everything we're getting

    • @AK-np4rp
      @AK-np4rp Před 6 dny

      ​@@mrsnrub282 No evidence that the Libs one due to those policies. The electorates with the highest numbers of investors actually had swings towards Labor.

  • @vivianoosthuizen8990
    @vivianoosthuizen8990 Před 24 dny +9

    Stockland and Mirvac and others that buy up development land and land bank it instead of building on the land. No problem because they are only interested in their balance sheet the longer they hold the land the higher the prices they can get for it when selling. No proper laws to prevent land banking in Australia

    • @ht8286
      @ht8286 Před 24 dny +2

      Research as well the inability for a farmer to get a residential planning permit to get a higher sale value on his land.
      He is forced to sell at a lower agricultural rate to a developer...who will easily get the residential permit due to corruption and hence make massive profits

    • @kestertroy
      @kestertroy Před 21 dnem

      The government too busy setting up laws to ban Elon Musk and can't afford the room to give farmers a fairer chance!

    • @vivianoosthuizen8990
      @vivianoosthuizen8990 Před 17 dny

      Should speak to your elected members

  • @strategoking
    @strategoking Před 19 dny +7

    The Australian Population from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
    2015: Approximately 23.8 million
    2016: Approximately 24.1 million
    2017: Approximately 24.6 million
    2018: Approximately 25 million
    2019: Approximately 25.4 million
    2020: Approximately 25.6 million
    2021: Approximately 25.7 million
    •2022: Approximately 25.7 million
    •2023: Approximately 26.8 million
    The average house price in Australia in 2015 was approximately $580,000
    The average house price in Australia in 2023 was approximately $1,084,855
    Did the increase of approximately 3 million in population effect housing prices by 100%
    3 million is approximately 11.19% of 26.8 million

    • @robf641
      @robf641 Před 18 dny

      10% of the population, so agree you cannot contribute everything to immigration. It's just one of many factors. I suspect the amount of wealth they bring with them would be significantly more than 10%.
      Immigration policy also no longer focused on bring in the working poor like post WW2.

    • @user-qm8sc1jr9u
      @user-qm8sc1jr9u Před 16 dny +1

      Chinese buyers

    • @strategoking
      @strategoking Před 16 dny +1

      @user-qm8sc1jr9u nah I believe the actual high-rise property vacancies are fudged to prop up the market for some strategic hidden agenda.
      In my cities, a large majority of residential buildings at night are 3/4 lights out. Why I know this, because I live in high rise building looking at at least 20 others

  • @Blackfire-yo6zn
    @Blackfire-yo6zn Před 22 dny +4

    A huge factor in house prices going up that was not mentioned is intergenerational wealth transfer. The people buying these huge prices are typically not using wealth they generated themselves rather they are using inherited wealth or alternatively using their parents/wealth

  • @leewilton5082
    @leewilton5082 Před 24 dny +5

    What a great interview.

  • @australiasindustrialage689

    It's getting that way that even country towns have astronomical house prices, Many people who were born in NSW, have family, friends and connections NSW will have to move interstate, but to where?

  • @EastWood2004
    @EastWood2004 Před 20 dny +3

    Can't believe that these guys talk about the topic that we had talked 20 years ago. The government is not willing to fix this issue.
    We need many satellite cities to diverse the population density but the government doesn't want to.

  • @williamcrossan9333
    @williamcrossan9333 Před 24 dny +12

    Indeed, I agree. My workplace largely cant get staff these days, because they don't pay a wage commensurate with the cost of housing.
    Been an internationally competitive sort of work (aircraft maintenance), opportunity to lift wages is limited.
    Basically this could be yet another industry that needs to leave Australia shores.

  • @George-xb5ey
    @George-xb5ey Před 23 dny +4

    We bought our house for 189k in 1990 now valued at 2.3mil it's still the same house

  • @hamishmccauley659
    @hamishmccauley659 Před 11 dny

    Glad you guys are having the real conversations! Bravo! Please continue to have them and call out the perpetrators. As we know the amount of people who understand money is low. We need all of them to have a full understanding of what has gone wrong. The corrupt printing of money and mis management

  • @AK-np4rp
    @AK-np4rp Před 6 dny +1

    When the residential housing market is bigger than Australia's GDP and the ASX combined, you know that something is very wrong.

  • @andrejankowski2606
    @andrejankowski2606 Před 24 dny +12

    Sounds like it’s time to find a new country to live. Bleak times…

    • @nathankelleher
      @nathankelleher Před 21 dnem +4

      Moving my family to Italy in the next 2 years before Australia goes to complete sh*t.. get out while you can!

    • @JP-qn4uo
      @JP-qn4uo Před 21 dnem +2

      Yeah, you can get awesome places in Italy for a fraction of the price of some utter dump in the arse end of Western Sydney!

  • @peterwilliams8588
    @peterwilliams8588 Před 20 dny +3

    How is it such a big surprise when you’re paying over $1m for a small 3 bed 1 bath cica1910 red brick house in Sydney. Can nobody see the issue in this

  • @timgoodwin90
    @timgoodwin90 Před 5 dny +1

    Australia needs a culture change away from 'housing as a money making tool', to 'housing for families to live in'. It needs to be treated like a buffet - once everyone has eaten, you can come back for seconds. If you own more than one residential property, you are taking it from a family that needs it and that is the definition of greedy.

  • @Letskeepthingsreal
    @Letskeepthingsreal Před hodinou

    Politicians own on average 2.5 homes, why the heck would they do anything to bring property prices down.
    We have 7 governments to govern 27,000,000 people, what an absolute Rort that is.
    Each retiring on 200K a year for the rest of their life.
    It’s criminal.

  • @dehaka3764
    @dehaka3764 Před 24 dny +9

    very good video

  • @114qk_edders4
    @114qk_edders4 Před 25 dny +4

    What episode is this from gents? Thanks love the pod

    • @EquityMates
      @EquityMates  Před 25 dny +4

      This clip was taken from the Equity Mates Investing Podcast episode 'Expert: Matt Barrie - Why house prices are the cause of today’s cost of living crisis'. Thanks for the support!

    • @114qk_edders4
      @114qk_edders4 Před 24 dny +3

      @@EquityMates full video coming anytime soon?

  • @crankin77
    @crankin77 Před 12 dny +2

    First principle question: if we know the avg affordability, then who is paying these exorbitant prices? Where does this money come from or how are they financing these over priced properties at scale?

  • @user-iv9hi2vm2s
    @user-iv9hi2vm2s Před 3 dny

    Housing in Australia has been an expensive exercise since 1972 when inflation turned bricks and mortar into a tradable commodity.
    In 1984, an 800sq m block in an outer urban subdivision with underground power could be purchased at resale for $20K + $1.5K legal fees. The average cost of building was at a multiplier of 3 for a total of $80K.
    The prevailing interest rate was 17% but government legislation put a ceiling on it at 13.5%. The banks cynically limited the housing loan to $50K and offered secured personal loans to cover any shortfall at an extortionate rate of 22%!!!!! The building industry effectively stalled, so the panicked government introduced the much abused ‘First Home Owners Grant’, which merely pushed prices up.
    Nowadays, an outer urban block of only 400sq m is at least $500K and the build cost starts at $300K with interest rates which were for some time at an all time low of 2%, now at around 7%, close to the long term average.
    So, it was never easy to put a worthwhile roof over one’s head and well nigh impossible for single income families.
    We simply had to tighten our belts and suck it up.

  • @jimcraiggeezer
    @jimcraiggeezer Před 23 dny +6

    I lived in Sydney for 20 years.. it became a joke tbh.. overpriced and too busy.

    • @bb.buchanan
      @bb.buchanan Před 20 dny +3

      My family left Sydney in 2000 because even then it was ridiculous - was last there in 2019 and it took 30 mins to drive from Wahroonga train station to my Aunts' house less than 5km away on a Fri afternoon. It will always hold a place in my heart and is arguably the best looking city in the world, but Sydney peaked in the 00's and died in 2014.

    • @user-qm8sc1jr9u
      @user-qm8sc1jr9u Před 16 dny

      Chinese buyers

    • @user-qm8sc1jr9u
      @user-qm8sc1jr9u Před 16 dny

      Chinese buyers

  • @adrak91
    @adrak91 Před 24 dny +9

    to much demand not enough supply, Immigration.

  • @livelikekings8968
    @livelikekings8968 Před 11 dny +1

    The silent annexation of Australia by Foreign investors.
    I watched a bus full of investors driving through a small neighbourhood in Central Qld. Pull up outside, SOLD, off to the next. Now 3 years later the rent has almost doubled! The owner is a company.

  • @cyberqueen777
    @cyberqueen777 Před 6 dny

    There's loads of people living differently now. Young and old have moved into vans instead of houses. The Tiny House movement is gaining huge momentum, albeit most city councils around Australia trying their best to make it difficult for tiny house owners without land. People are leaving Sydney because it's no longer a great city, it's overcrowded and overstressed. Something's got to give!

  • @AdrianHarwood
    @AdrianHarwood Před 15 dny +9

    Coming from a Homeless person so take it as it is. The value of EVERY property standing today, need to drop their value by about $300k for every $1million spent.

    • @user-yf5cd2ep6y
      @user-yf5cd2ep6y Před 4 dny

      Your situation is not something that other people have to be responsible for.
      If all you need is a cheaper house then go buy one that is in a regional centre.

    • @AdrianHarwood
      @AdrianHarwood Před 4 dny +1

      @@user-yf5cd2ep6y, what part of my statement did I suggest other need to be responsible for my position? Very poor reasoning on your behalf. But have a nice day.

    • @user-yf5cd2ep6y
      @user-yf5cd2ep6y Před 4 dny

      @@AdrianHarwood my very poor reasoning is predicated on your very clear pronouncement that "The value of EVERY property standing today, need to drop their value by about $300k for every $1million spent."
      It is YOU stating EVERY property should need drop by 30%. Says who, and to suit whom, if not you? Implicit in your statement, it is to benefit you and what it is you believe would assist you, otherwise why say it?
      I certainly am not calling for that, nor is anybody else I know.
      Furthermore, by definition, if you expect such price falls, they can only result from the actions of others to precipitate it.
      That leads to concluding the expectation of the actions of others to ameliorate your circumstances.
      I trust now you know what parts of your statement very much suggest others need to be responsible for your position. After all, it is those 'others' who have driven price growth of the level you deign too high.
      And thankyou, I am having a nice day.

    • @AdrianHarwood
      @AdrianHarwood Před 4 dny +1

      @@user-yf5cd2ep6y, I have never owned property, and have never felt the need to be an owner. So to that point, not to assist me personally. But to the generations of people who will most likely, NEVER live that Great Australian Dream.

    • @user-yf5cd2ep6y
      @user-yf5cd2ep6y Před 3 dny

      @@AdrianHarwood so, what a tangled web we weave, when we set out to deceive. So now, you aren't "homeless" in the very clear way it was implicit by how you portrayed yourself to be. Now you are , in fact, a renter by choice in a home. There have always been generations of people who have never owned a home. Not everyone, regardless of cost, manages to purchase a property. In the 1960's over one third of Aussies were renters, at a time that housing was extremely cheap and readily affordable for an average working family. In Germany today, 41% of people rent, and that has always been the consistent number over time. Next time, instead of attempting a blatant deception, just put forward a point. You are not "homeless" and by implication, somehow marginalised.

  • @akj3388
    @akj3388 Před 24 dny +6

    People easily say that reserve banks print money but then don't ask the question - why does government collect taxes?

    • @tonykennedy1615
      @tonykennedy1615 Před 24 dny

      Ignorance.

    • @stevem815
      @stevem815 Před 24 dny

      So they can spend it. If they just spent without taxing we'd immediately get hyperinflation. We still are getting it a bit because they push it as hard they can, but that is the restraint.
      You're looking at it wrong though, if they could they'd take everything and just have you as a slave, all this stuff we're doing is to try to give us some space to live somewhat free of these psychopaths.

    • @stevem815
      @stevem815 Před 24 dny +1

      So they can spend. They can't just keep adding money to the system without destroying the value of money.

    • @akj3388
      @akj3388 Před 24 dny

      @@stevem815 If the government creates 5 billion dollars today, does the owner of convenience store around the corner increase prices ? Does he even get this news?

    • @stevem815
      @stevem815 Před 24 dny +4

      @@akj3388 it doesn't matter if he hears about it. More available money competing for the same resources will push up prices. The convenience store man will have his costs increase and will increase his prices to cover them.
      What did you think inflation was?

  • @hobosnacho
    @hobosnacho Před 7 dny

    We just went unconditional on a house. HUGE relief for us, but still feel absolutely terrible for the rest of the country wrapped up in this mess. Super competitive and the prices are out of most people’s reach.