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Hatch boss: Property investors should get on share market

Dan Brunskill
Fri, 26 Mar 2021

Hatch general manager, Kristen Lunman hopes the new housing policy will encourage share market investment.

Dan Brunskill
Fri, 26 Mar 2021

The government’s new housing policy should encourage more investment in the share market, says Hatch general manager, Kristen Lunman.The policy is designed to discourage property market speculation and constrain house prices, but Lunman hopes it will also help to level the playing field between shares and property.An unscientific poll of Hatch’s Facebook Investors Club found 35% of users don’t invest in property and 14% can’t afford property anyway.Only 4% said they were likely to sell a property after the rule change bu...

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