Highrise Harry chokes supply to drive up profits

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If you want bonafide evidence that property developers manipulate the market to ration supply and maximise their profits, look no further than ‘Highrise’ Harry Triguboff’s testimony today in The Australian:

Harry Triguboff, Australia’s richest property developer, will make $400m from building and keeping apartments for investment this year…

The documents showed a 15 per cent increase in the number of investment units including serviced apartments on the Meriton books, with the company owning 13,314 units as at June 30.

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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.