Frasers: Labor’s negative gearing reforms to improve housing quality

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By Leith van Onselen

Labor’s proposed negative gearing reforms could stop the proliferation of low quality high-rise shoe box apartments across Australia’s capital cities, according to Rod Fehring, the Australian chief executive of multinational developer Frasers Property. From The AFR:

With fewer tax breaks to make housing investment profitable, investors will focus on properties with the scope to grow in value, and that would make developers, in turn, come up with housing products that would do that…

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About the author
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.