7.30 Report does foreign property investment

Thursday 27 November 2014

ABC’s 7.30 Report did a good job covering the parliamentary inquiry’s report into foreign investment in Australian real estate, featuring two segments on the issue last night.

In the first segment, the show interviewed a number of players in the real estate industry with direct exposure to foreign investors, with real estate agent, Robert Simeon, providing the most damning assessment:

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Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.