@financial.leigh: Meet your new landlords 🙋‍♂️ As foreign institutional investment into Australia's Build-to-Rent sector continues to grow, many Australians are asking a simple question. Why can an overseas pension fund leverage into thousands of new Australian homes, while an Australian can no longer borrow inside their SMSF to buy one? Canadian pension funds are among the largest foreign investors in Australia's Build-to-Rent sector, investing billions into apartment developments designed to be held for decades, not sold off one by one. Eligible institutional investors can access benefits like: • 15% tax through Managed Investment Trusts • 4% depreciation on eligible Build-to-Rent projects • Land tax concessions in NSW and Victoria • Tax incentives designed to attract overseas investment • Access to large-scale wholesale funding This isn't about being against foreign investment. Australia benefits from overseas capital, and Build-to-Rent can play an important role in increasing housing supply. The question is whether Australian investors should have access to similar opportunities, or whether governments should continue expanding incentives for large institutional investors, including overseas pension funds, while Australians face increasingly restrictive investment rules. What do you think? #buildtorent #smsfproperty #propertyinvesting #australianproperty #housingcrisis

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Ethan C :

man I hate my government but also could be a lot worse then albo

2026-07-21 22:28:19

mr_BoomBoom :

Funny bit, but it's leaving out some pretty important context. The 15% tax rate is real. It's the concessional withholding rate that applies to eligible build to rent income. But here's what got cut: foreign buyers have actually been banned from purchasing existing houses since April 2025, all the way through to mid 2029. They can't just walk in and buy "1,000 investment properties." That's literally the thing the ban is designed to stop. The only way foreign capital gets into Australian housing at scale now is by funding brand new build to rent developments. And there are real strings attached: 50 or more units, long term lease options for tenants, at least 10% has to be affordable housing, and the whole thing has to stay a rental building for 15 years or there are penalties. And the "secret rule book for foreign billionaires" thing isn't really about nationality. It's about scale. An Australian super fund building the exact same type of project gets the same depreciation write offs and land tax discounts. Nobody's giving foreigners a special deal that locals can't touch. Honestly, Aussie super funds already have a sweeter setup on their own money without needing any of this. Investment earnings are taxed at 15% in accumulation phase and 0% once you're in pension phase. No special structure required. So it's not really "government favors foreign landlords over local ones." It's more like "government is trying to bribe big capital, foreign or local, into building new housing instead of buying up what already exists." You can absolutely debate whether that's smart policy. But that's the actual mechanism, not what the skit is implying.

2026-07-12 00:23:07

Ryan 🇦🇺 :

I like how you pretended it was Canada that was the problem 😅

2026-07-11 02:58:53

Ronnie :

You can’t have uneven number of hotels on property groups. You can’t even play monopoly.

2026-07-02 21:41:16

Dial thedl :

@Punter's Politics

2026-07-03 10:47:57

xg :

@Simon Berry

2026-07-03 09:25:43

Fabio :

😳😳😳😳😳

2026-08-05 20:56:13

Roo :

👀

2026-07-03 07:44:56

Bluey :

Oooooft. Wait until you hear about who owns most of the ASX100 and our resources. (we have always been a colonialist extraction economy and it didn't stop when we federated). Anyway, socialism or barbarism

2026-07-03 02:52:36

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