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PHOTO: Australian political parties<\/strong><\/p>\n

REPUBLISHED WITH PERMISSION API MAGAZINE<\/a><\/p>\n

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The federal election has been called for 21 May and more than a quarter of voters are still undecided about who will get their vote among the 38 parties vying for attention and ticks on ballot papers.<\/p>\n

For every contesting party, there are\u00a0three times as many issues that will decide each voter\u2019s choice at the polls.<\/p>\n

Property issues, including affordability, tax and incentives, are again shaping as one of the key election issues for many Australians.<\/p>\n

The previous 2019 election was heavily influenced by property issues, where negative gearing took centre stage as one of the key differences between the major parties.<\/p>\n

Labor lost that campaign and have since abandoned any plans to remove the tax offset from their policy platform. Neither they nor the Liberal-National Party coalition will tackle reform of negative gearing.<\/p>\n

In its place,\u00a0affordability has taken its place\u00a0in the property policy spotlight.<\/p>\n

In the past 25 years, home ownership and affordability have plummeted.<\/p>\n

At the 1998 Census, 43 per cent of Australians owned their houses outright, 29 per cent had a mortgage, 18 per cent rented from private landlords, and 6 per cent from the government (the remainder were in hotels, homeless, etc). Now, only 30 per cent own their houses outright, 37 per cent have a mortgage, while 27 per cent rent from landlords and 3 per cent from the government.<\/p>\n

In Sydney, median house prices are now a staggering 15 times more than the average household income. Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth were recently ranked as the 2nd, 5th, 14th, 17th and 20th least affordable cities in the world respectively.<\/p>\n

Rising interest rates\u00a0could exacerbate that situation even further.<\/p>\n

For those without their own home, rents have soared, up just this year by 11.8 per cent nationally,\u00a0because of a\u00a0record low number of available rental\u00a0properties\u00a0in\u00a0a crisis that analysts predict is set to worsen.<\/p>\n

So, it is little wonder property issues and policies will again be the determining factor for many voters when it comes to rolling up to the local school, hall or post office to cast their votes.<\/p>\n

Most of the 38 parties have property policies but only the coalition Liberal-National alliance, the Australian Labor Party (ALP) and potential balance of power holder, The Greens, have the influence to shape the sector.<\/p>\n

Here is an outline of what each of these three parties promises to deliver if it gets to dictate policy for the next four years.<\/p>\n

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The Coalition (Liberal Party\/National Party)<\/strong><\/p>\n

The pivotal policy of the Coalition revolves around the First Home Guarantee. The scheme allows mainly first-home buyers to get a mortgage\u00a0with a low deposit of between 5 per cent and 20 per cent of the value of the property. One scheme for single parents requires only a 2 per cent minimum deposit.<\/p>\n

Announced in\u00a0the recent federal budget, the plan is to support first-home buyers by:<\/p>\n