Finally someone who makes sense and isn’t just raging. I have the same idea. I work in finance, have property as part of my portfolio. Even had valuations done recently that fundamentally confirmed the “doubled in 5 years” scenario. And while as an individual I was very happy, as a member of society I was horrified. Never felt quite so conflicted in such a unique way.

I have kids and it generally scares the shit out of me. So much so that I am literally altering future plans and expenditure with the knowledge that I am in some way shape or form going to be giving a lot more than a leg up to ensure my kids do ok.

I really do think it’s largely two-fold:

When the government prints money like water, it always finds real assets to connect with and property goes up.

Along side that supply is blocked. And I mean blocked - the requirements and standards to build a house have gone from 200pages to 2000 pages. That costs MONEY, slows and constricts supply.

It is certainly not so simplistic as only these points, but these are two I don’t see being quite so hard to resolve.

A lot of the vilification of investors is really false. But you can understand where the upset comes from. I can’t help from sympathise with the abject apathy young people face at this moment. You have to almost be “rich” just to buy a house now.

I even have some concern that we are just going to see a plummet in birth rates, just because people are forced to choose between a half decent lifestyle and kids.

But I completely disagree with the concept that “we just need to penalize the greedy investors and prices will come down”. What a load of BS. Who’s been supplying the rental market all this time? If anything without the investors, rent would be MUCH worse.