Of course.
Nothing like putting yourself in a superior class from those who you think may disagree with you. All residential real estate is treated the same as other investments apart from the majority of it which is still owner-occupied! And you can certainly do a good amount of leveraging with investment in land. Even labour's plans include an exemption for owner-occupied investment in real estate. So labour would continue the unfairness. So owner occupiers would continue to have the privilege of their tax preferred investment. Tough for all those who cannot afford to own their own homes and can only invest in fully taxed fixed interest and share investments?Quote:
And in spite of what the hoi- polloi think, investment in real estate is treated no differently from shares or any other commodity investment. ...