Landlords are unloved, aren’t they? The budget came to bite them right in their tax breaks, but did they receive any sympathy? No, none. Everyone cheered.
The reason is that most people probably aren’t mates or even colleagues with a landlord. That’s the finding from a big new study from the Reserve Bank into precisely who landlords are these days.
As the next chart shows, being a landlord used to be a young person’s game. Back in the year 2000, the most common age group for a person to have tenants was 40-49.