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Sydney property market shaped by tax breaks and population growth

Property in Sydney has been boosted by a combination of tax breaks, declining interest rates and population growth.

By The Daily Sydney · Published 20 July 2026

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Property has been boosted for three decades by a cocktail of tax breaks, declining interest rates and population growth that guaranteed demand always outstripped supply according to the ABC News report.

The report notes that affordability was close to topping out and unless born into a property-owning family chances of owning real estate were rapidly diminishing.

A campaign to jettison the tax reforms on negative gearing and capital gains tax is underway as described in the ABC News analysis of the productivity crisis.

An image of houses in Sydney with dollar signs illustrates the property focus in the report.

Sources: abc.net.au.

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