Intense debate surrounds negative gearing and capital gains tax (CGT) concessions and their role in Australia’s housing market.

This week we start to present a balanced view of the property market. Over the next few weeks we will feature a range of respected property professionals and proven industry commentators from Bricks & Mortar Media’s annual property market forecast report that has just been released.

Property investors are claiming up to $88k a year in negative gearing tax breaks in parts of Sydney following a staggering rise in home losses.

Brisbane-based Melinda Jennison established Streamline Property Buyers, which has a simple ethos of helping people make sound property investment decisions, in 2017 after a career in academia that included cystic fibrosis research.

Maureen is in Australia’s top income bracket but still can’t afford to buy the home she lives in. Here’s the grim salary experts say you need for an average house.

Fiddling with negative gearing and capital gains tax (CGT) discounts could cost Australia up to $58 billion over a decade and send the overstretched rental market spiralling further, according to new research by the Property Investment Professionals of Australia.

As corners of the country push for the government to re-evaluate negative gearing, the real estate and construction industries have voiced their view on any policy changes. Unequivocally calling for the policy not to be touched.

Tampering with negative gearing and capital gains tax concessions would cost the Federal Government up to $58 billion over just 10 years and gut the already-stretched rental market of supply, according to new research.

There are growing concerns Anthony Albanese is “plotting” another major broken promise that critics say will cost renters dearly.

Hotspotting by Ryder’s Location of the Month is Tamworth. A well established regional hub in the Greater Northern region of NSW, the City of Tamworth continues to grow with billion-dollar infrastructure projects rolling out across the LGA.

New data has revealed almost half of all Australian suburbs are in extreme rental pain, according to property research group Suburbtrends.

Kathy Blahut started her working life as a high school economics teacher but her passion for property would see her transition into teaching adults how to create wealth via property investment.