Comments on: An election for property investors http://www.landlords.co.nz/blog/an-election-for-property-investors A blog for New Zealand landlords and property investors Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:09:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Luke McNeath http://www.landlords.co.nz/blog/an-election-for-property-investors/comment-page-1#comment-70 Luke McNeath Sat, 16 Feb 2008 02:27:41 +0000 http://landlords.akira.dyndns.biz:8080/blog/an-election-for-property-investors#comment-70 "There are something like quarter of a million landlords in New Zealand and for many of them property is their retirement fund. To mess with this is political suicide." Don't forget that for every landlord there must be at least one renter, who is currently watching house prices becoming increasingly unaffordable. So renters actually outnumber investors. Perhaps ignoring the future of more than a quarter million renters is political suicide in a democratic country? There was a time when to propose an African American candidate for the US presidency would have been political suicide. Times change. Of course, for the upcoming election NZers will choose whichever party offers the most compelling short-term enticements. And so the decline of NZ down the OECD rankings will continue. “There are something like quarter of a million landlords in New Zealand and for many of them property is their retirement fund.
To mess with this is political suicide.”

Don’t forget that for every landlord there must be at least one renter, who is currently watching house prices becoming increasingly unaffordable. So renters actually outnumber investors. Perhaps ignoring the future of more than a quarter million renters is political suicide in a democratic country?

There was a time when to propose an African American candidate for the US presidency would have been political suicide. Times change.
Of course, for the upcoming election NZers will choose whichever party offers the most compelling short-term enticements. And so the decline of NZ down the OECD rankings will continue.

]]> By: Lee Kammerer http://www.landlords.co.nz/blog/an-election-for-property-investors/comment-page-1#comment-68 Lee Kammerer Fri, 01 Feb 2008 03:41:05 +0000 http://landlords.akira.dyndns.biz:8080/blog/an-election-for-property-investors#comment-68 What's behind the housing affordibility crisis? The answer is simple: Cullen's inflation! Instead of trying to find scapegoats in the property sector, wouldn't it be a good idea for the Government to get spending in unproductive sectors under control? Cutting back on all that red tape (which this Government promised to act on but have failed to deliver) would go along way to help solving the problem as well. Fat chance with this lot though. What’s behind the housing affordibility crisis? The answer is simple: Cullen’s inflation! Instead of trying to find scapegoats in the property sector, wouldn’t it be a good idea for the Government to get spending in unproductive sectors under control? Cutting back on all that red tape (which this Government promised to act on but have failed to deliver) would go along way to help solving the problem as well. Fat chance with this lot though.

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