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Landlords selling = first home owners buying

More homeownership means landlords selling, yet everyone pretends otherwise

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Cameron Murray
Jul 16, 2023
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Oh no, landlords will sell their dwellings. This is terrible news for renters!

If I hear this nonsense one more time…

A housing math lesson

There are about 10.8 million dwellings in Australia and we add about 160,000 new dwellings to the stock each year.

Of those 10.8 million homes, about 3.6 million are owned by landlords and rented in the private market. …

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