"Housing supply is always the answer." No it's not. Under #OffshoreGregor Robertson Vancouver had a lot of new supply of housing.
But a lot of that was for foreign #LandBankers stashing cash here & domestic speculators, not locals living here
Most important ? in housing?
Homes for whom?
But a lot of that was for foreign #LandBankers stashing cash here & domestic speculators, not locals living here
Most important ? in housing?
Homes for whom?
August 31, 2026 at 3:38 AM
"Housing supply is always the answer." No it's not. Under #OffshoreGregor Robertson Vancouver had a lot of new supply of housing.
But a lot of that was for foreign #LandBankers stashing cash here & domestic speculators, not locals living here
Most important ? in housing?
Homes for whom?
But a lot of that was for foreign #LandBankers stashing cash here & domestic speculators, not locals living here
Most important ? in housing?
Homes for whom?
Not true. Pre Trudeau we had overall support by most for immigration because it was in numbers we could absorb in terms of housing, schools hospitals.
Domestic real estate speculator JD cranked #s up beyond capacity, driving up housing prices & rents allowed foreign Landbankers & domestic specs to
Domestic real estate speculator JD cranked #s up beyond capacity, driving up housing prices & rents allowed foreign Landbankers & domestic specs to
August 31, 2026 at 3:16 AM
Not true. Pre Trudeau we had overall support by most for immigration because it was in numbers we could absorb in terms of housing, schools hospitals.
Domestic real estate speculator JD cranked #s up beyond capacity, driving up housing prices & rents allowed foreign Landbankers & domestic specs to
Domestic real estate speculator JD cranked #s up beyond capacity, driving up housing prices & rents allowed foreign Landbankers & domestic specs to
I'm befuddled by a govt - Lab-lead or Nat-lead, they increasingly look the same - that allows homelessness, rental insecurity and outright extortionate rents while the corporates and everyday Mum and Dad landbankers sit on empty land waiting for a better tax-free capital gain.
February 25, 2025 at 5:37 AM
I'm befuddled by a govt - Lab-lead or Nat-lead, they increasingly look the same - that allows homelessness, rental insecurity and outright extortionate rents while the corporates and everyday Mum and Dad landbankers sit on empty land waiting for a better tax-free capital gain.
Most i think are either domestic real estate speculators like poilievre, Trudeau, Carney or liberal housing minister Gregor Robertson or foreign #Landbankers.
July 16, 2026 at 6:26 AM
Most i think are either domestic real estate speculators like poilievre, Trudeau, Carney or liberal housing minister Gregor Robertson or foreign #Landbankers.
It is the most powerful way to housing affordablity vs more supply for foreign landbankers and domestic real estate speculators will magically work when it hasn't for decades
September 4, 2025 at 8:52 AM
It is the most powerful way to housing affordablity vs more supply for foreign landbankers and domestic real estate speculators will magically work when it hasn't for decades
Strange. #Senakaw seems like a good stable income generating investment from the outside, wonder why #Westbank is selling it's stake in something that seems like good recurring revenue?
Did #Westbank expand too fast & depend on foreign #Landbankers too much & they're short of cash?
#vanRe
Did #Westbank expand too fast & depend on foreign #Landbankers too much & they're short of cash?
#vanRe
August 29, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Strange. #Senakaw seems like a good stable income generating investment from the outside, wonder why #Westbank is selling it's stake in something that seems like good recurring revenue?
Did #Westbank expand too fast & depend on foreign #Landbankers too much & they're short of cash?
#vanRe
Did #Westbank expand too fast & depend on foreign #Landbankers too much & they're short of cash?
#vanRe
Ex CEO of $278 Billion real estate speculation co Brookfield Carney appoints #OffshoreGregor Robertson as housing minister
Gregor made Chinese #LandBankers, rich
Canadian domestic RE speculators, rich
#VanRE developers, rich.
Renters, poor
Homes, unaffordable
#vanpoli #cdnpoli#bcpoli
Gregor made Chinese #LandBankers, rich
Canadian domestic RE speculators, rich
#VanRE developers, rich.
Renters, poor
Homes, unaffordable
#vanpoli #cdnpoli#bcpoli
May 13, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Ex CEO of $278 Billion real estate speculation co Brookfield Carney appoints #OffshoreGregor Robertson as housing minister
Gregor made Chinese #LandBankers, rich
Canadian domestic RE speculators, rich
#VanRE developers, rich.
Renters, poor
Homes, unaffordable
#vanpoli #cdnpoli#bcpoli
Gregor made Chinese #LandBankers, rich
Canadian domestic RE speculators, rich
#VanRE developers, rich.
Renters, poor
Homes, unaffordable
#vanpoli #cdnpoli#bcpoli
housing crisis is under control and we need a Singapore stamp tax on housing
Homes for Whom is the most important ? in housing.
Building more for foreign landbankers or domestic speculators won't help locals living here
60% for foreigners
65% tax for business/trustees
Tax 2nd homes 20% 3rd 30%
Homes for Whom is the most important ? in housing.
Building more for foreign landbankers or domestic speculators won't help locals living here
60% for foreigners
65% tax for business/trustees
Tax 2nd homes 20% 3rd 30%
March 13, 2025 at 6:35 AM
housing crisis is under control and we need a Singapore stamp tax on housing
Homes for Whom is the most important ? in housing.
Building more for foreign landbankers or domestic speculators won't help locals living here
60% for foreigners
65% tax for business/trustees
Tax 2nd homes 20% 3rd 30%
Homes for Whom is the most important ? in housing.
Building more for foreign landbankers or domestic speculators won't help locals living here
60% for foreigners
65% tax for business/trustees
Tax 2nd homes 20% 3rd 30%
ive had a shitty job id say was evil. i worked for a while as a "property inspector" for landbankers. the main purpose of the job was to report squatters (i didnt) and to hang foreclosure notices. eventually an old guy told me "eventually someone's gonna attack you" and i told him "thx, im quitting"
July 4, 2025 at 2:46 AM
ive had a shitty job id say was evil. i worked for a while as a "property inspector" for landbankers. the main purpose of the job was to report squatters (i didnt) and to hang foreclosure notices. eventually an old guy told me "eventually someone's gonna attack you" and i told him "thx, im quitting"
Well, Singapore having nearly all land owned by the state is one means of ensuring the property industry isn't a speculative leach on the more productive parts of the economy. While New Zealand still offers undue political protection for landbankers, Singapore can build great things like the MRT.
February 22, 2026 at 9:05 PM
Well, Singapore having nearly all land owned by the state is one means of ensuring the property industry isn't a speculative leach on the more productive parts of the economy. While New Zealand still offers undue political protection for landbankers, Singapore can build great things like the MRT.
Yeah, 'coz the private sector building houses has worked out just beautifully....for the rent seekers
Everyone else is basically priced out, but yay! Greedy landbankers & developers are raking it in!
Meanwhile, mum & the kids living in their car should just raid their family trust, hey?
Everyone else is basically priced out, but yay! Greedy landbankers & developers are raking it in!
Meanwhile, mum & the kids living in their car should just raid their family trust, hey?
April 15, 2025 at 7:36 AM
Yeah, 'coz the private sector building houses has worked out just beautifully....for the rent seekers
Everyone else is basically priced out, but yay! Greedy landbankers & developers are raking it in!
Meanwhile, mum & the kids living in their car should just raid their family trust, hey?
Everyone else is basically priced out, but yay! Greedy landbankers & developers are raking it in!
Meanwhile, mum & the kids living in their car should just raid their family trust, hey?
So it looks like the landbankers and speculators who gain huge unearned capital gains from rezonings and publicly funded infrastructure won’t have to pay value-capture rates. Govt eyes big new infrastructure levies, but no value-capture rates thekaka.substack.com/p/govt-eyes-...
Govt eyes big new infrastructure levies, but no value-capture rates
Bishop to announce new Govt-set infrastructure charges on residents and drivers will replace council development contributions, but Govt is steering away from value-capture rates on rising land values
thekaka.substack.com
February 27, 2025 at 8:48 PM
So it looks like the landbankers and speculators who gain huge unearned capital gains from rezonings and publicly funded infrastructure won’t have to pay value-capture rates. Govt eyes big new infrastructure levies, but no value-capture rates thekaka.substack.com/p/govt-eyes-...
Q&A: Who is to blame for the housing crisis?
The RBNZ? The banks? Landlords? First home buyers? Councils? The RMA? Labour? National? Building materials makers? Builders? Real estate agents? Landbankers? Noone in particular. Just voters generally....
The RBNZ? The banks? Landlords? First home buyers? Councils? The RMA? Labour? National? Building materials makers? Builders? Real estate agents? Landbankers? Noone in particular. Just voters generally....
November 25, 2024 at 3:53 AM
Q&A: Who is to blame for the housing crisis?
The RBNZ? The banks? Landlords? First home buyers? Councils? The RMA? Labour? National? Building materials makers? Builders? Real estate agents? Landbankers? Noone in particular. Just voters generally....
The RBNZ? The banks? Landlords? First home buyers? Councils? The RMA? Labour? National? Building materials makers? Builders? Real estate agents? Landbankers? Noone in particular. Just voters generally....
The long story very, very short? Suburban home-owning NIMBYs, landlords and landbankers will love it, councils will smirk and ignore it, and young renters are unlikely to change their plans to re-start their lives and families in Australia....
November 22, 2024 at 9:44 PM
The long story very, very short? Suburban home-owning NIMBYs, landlords and landbankers will love it, councils will smirk and ignore it, and young renters are unlikely to change their plans to re-start their lives and families in Australia....
Aotearoa Inc has become the land long white cloud, with a few landbankers attached. https://open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/p/its-always-always-about-land-land?r=akd4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
It's always, always about land, land, tax and tax
Land developer threatens to sue Auckland Council to force...
open.substack.com
November 22, 2024 at 8:02 PM
Aotearoa Inc has become the land long white cloud, with a few landbankers attached. https://open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/p/its-always-always-about-land-land?r=akd4&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Wellington isn’t just dying. It’s almost dead. Strangled by NIMBYs, landbankers, short-termist politicians and voters/ratepayers. The shackle could be broken this week. Or nothing changes, and it really is dead....
November 22, 2024 at 6:37 PM
Wellington isn’t just dying. It’s almost dead. Strangled by NIMBYs, landbankers, short-termist politicians and voters/ratepayers. The shackle could be broken this week. Or nothing changes, and it really is dead....
Wellington isn’t just dying. It’s almost dead. Strangled by NIMBYs, landbankers, short-termist politicians and voters/ratepayers. The shackle could be broken this week. Or nothing changes, and it really is dead. open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...
How strangling housing supply is killing our capital city
Key moment for Wellington as Council considers over-turning or up-zoning the down-zoned plan from an Independent Hearings Panel; Final decision with Bishop; Risk is future dependent on one land-banker
open.substack.com
March 12, 2024 at 3:36 AM
Wellington isn’t just dying. It’s almost dead. Strangled by NIMBYs, landbankers, short-termist politicians and voters/ratepayers. The shackle could be broken this week. Or nothing changes, and it really is dead. open.substack.com/pub/thekaka/...
The Labour Government's choice to hike inheritance tax on farmers is simply wrong. Farming families plough large sums into their farms to grow food for our tables, and most make very little for themselves. We need to be taxing the big landholders and landbankers, not small family-run farms.
February 11, 2025 at 3:14 PM
The Labour Government's choice to hike inheritance tax on farmers is simply wrong. Farming families plough large sums into their farms to grow food for our tables, and most make very little for themselves. We need to be taxing the big landholders and landbankers, not small family-run farms.
Buyers circle market garden as Geelong homes plan develops
https://www.allforgardening.com/1308763/buyers-circle-market-garden-as-geelong-homes-plan-develops/
The 9.1ha property 70 Bridge St, Batesford, is attracting interest from potential landbankers, speculating on value underpinned by …
https://www.allforgardening.com/1308763/buyers-circle-market-garden-as-geelong-homes-plan-develops/
The 9.1ha property 70 Bridge St, Batesford, is attracting interest from potential landbankers, speculating on value underpinned by …
Buyers circle market garden as Geelong homes plan develops - All For Gardening
The 9.1ha property 70 Bridge St, Batesford, is attracting interest from potential landbankers, speculating on value underpinned by Geelong’s future western
www.allforgardening.com
May 25, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Buyers circle market garden as Geelong homes plan develops
https://www.allforgardening.com/1308763/buyers-circle-market-garden-as-geelong-homes-plan-develops/
The 9.1ha property 70 Bridge St, Batesford, is attracting interest from potential landbankers, speculating on value underpinned by …
https://www.allforgardening.com/1308763/buyers-circle-market-garden-as-geelong-homes-plan-develops/
The 9.1ha property 70 Bridge St, Batesford, is attracting interest from potential landbankers, speculating on value underpinned by …
Homelessness is the worst I've ever seen with mass tent encampments all over London alongside the lowest council housing stock I've ever seen as it's been replaced by private over priced developments for a quick buck to landbankers and increase in HMOs and antisocial behaviour.
November 13, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Homelessness is the worst I've ever seen with mass tent encampments all over London alongside the lowest council housing stock I've ever seen as it's been replaced by private over priced developments for a quick buck to landbankers and increase in HMOs and antisocial behaviour.
Somebody tell Starmer Landbankers don't pay tax and speculate on the empty property market from China and Dubai.
October 7, 2023 at 4:46 PM
Somebody tell Starmer Landbankers don't pay tax and speculate on the empty property market from China and Dubai.
'consultants & designers will be paid $675 mill of taxpayers’ $s with farmers & landbankers paid for land next to motorways that may never be built. ... Bishop/Hipkins should be upfront ..that these roads will cost up to $70 a trip &/or $50 billion debt that require higher taxes, or never be built.
October 21, 2025 at 11:42 PM
'consultants & designers will be paid $675 mill of taxpayers’ $s with farmers & landbankers paid for land next to motorways that may never be built. ... Bishop/Hipkins should be upfront ..that these roads will cost up to $70 a trip &/or $50 billion debt that require higher taxes, or never be built.
Just had a read of his webpage and it all seems really sensible. Land value-based rates is a big one—landbankers would be made to pay rates based on the value of the premium land they're sitting on
In all seriousness, there is one candidate who has a low profile but whose policies look excellent: Alex Baker. It’s just that we hear hardly anything about him. alexbakerwellington.nz
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July 17, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Just had a read of his webpage and it all seems really sensible. Land value-based rates is a big one—landbankers would be made to pay rates based on the value of the premium land they're sitting on
*act against landbankers
November 21, 2024 at 10:18 PM
*act against landbankers
I don’t dispute the need to act landbankers and tax dodgers. What I want is the value of all the components of a working farm be rigorously established and a realistic tax free inheritance value established, as long as the land is being chiefly farmed by the owner.
November 21, 2024 at 10:15 PM
I don’t dispute the need to act landbankers and tax dodgers. What I want is the value of all the components of a working farm be rigorously established and a realistic tax free inheritance value established, as long as the land is being chiefly farmed by the owner.