According to the FBAA’s newest bi-monthly pulse examine on dealer sentiment, 33% of brokers anticipate a optimistic impact on the industry from Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s social gathering, whereas 38% anticipate a detrimental impact. The remaining 29% have been impartial.
Older brokers are typically extra pessimistic over the federal government’s insurance policies, with 47% of brokers aged over 50 having a detrimental view of the federal government’s impact on the broking industry.
One dealer, aged 48, informed the FBAA: “Tinkering with issues like tax ‘brackets’, evaluation price margin, authorities deposit help, and so on., is a bandaid answer. It solely masks the actual drawback of housing scarcity.”
Indeed, ‘lack of reasonably priced housing inventory’ was cited as the most important barrier to residence possession, adopted by ‘saving for a deposit’ then ‘serviceability hurdles on account of rates of interest/earnings’.
