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Real estate agents targeting tenants is the lowest of the low blows during election 2019

  • Written by Danielle Wood, Program Director, Budget Policy and Institutional Reform, Grattan Institute
Real estate agents targeting tenants is the lowest of the low blows during election 2019Real estate agents don’t decide rents, landlords do. Shutterstock

The lowest blow of this election campaign may have come from a firm of real estate agents that abused its position of trust to scare renters about Labor’s proposed negative gearing changes.

If you are one of those renters, relax. You have nothing to fear from the changes....

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