What change will we see to property taxation?

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Remember gearing works both ways. Go in with a 10% deposit and guess what happens if the market drops 10% ? Bingo - equity gone.

Good point - which is why it was madness for Westpac to be allowing 110% mortgages a couple of years back. But if we look at market trends, values have only gone up over time. So equity then becomes a function of one's ability to service a loan. Its not so much that the value in property will cause one to loose equity - its the increase in interest rates or lack of tennants prepared to pay the rent which become the problem.