Tim Lawless
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584 appearances
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first heard Jun 2026
last heard 8 Jul
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All of those are going up quite swiftly.
You've got tenancy reform, which means if you're looking for a tenant, you've got to probably ensure there's minimum standards, which can be expensive.
And you've got higher maintenance costs as well, because construction costs have gone up significantly.
which implies it's costly or too maintained.
Strata fees.
No, this is actually wear and tear.
If you've got to fix the plumbing or fix the sink, whatever, it's a lot more expensive to do that now than it was five years ago simply because the cost of trades and materials have gone up so substantially.
So if you compare that to what might be compared to, say, a much lower maintenance style of investment, like buying into a share portfolio or an ETF.
No maintenance costs.
No holding costs really whatsoever, apart from if you're leveraged.
Very low transactional fees.
Generally fairly similar long-term capital gain outcomes.
Yeah, they have been.
That's right.
For an asset that gives you a fairly similar outcome, but much lower holding costs, much more liquid, so you can buy in and out with very low transactional costs as well.
So I think a lot of investors will be doing that maths.
Is property going to give me enough return for the risk I'm taking in that asset?
Yeah.
So there isn't any data on this that I'm aware of yet, Mark.
So what's this space though?
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