Aue-emaps.com have mapped out the ATO investment data of Canberrans by postcode.
At a glance it’s easy to see where the money wants to be in this town. But here are the findings:
— The highest proportions of sophisticated investors (ie. with cash, highly geared investment properties as well as other investments delivering strong capital gains) are in postcodes 2600 and 2603 whilst residents of postcodes 2615, 2902, 2903, 2905 and 2906 are the least
likely to have an investment in any form.— People with strong preferences towards cash and investments delivering capital gains and with moderately geared investment properties are most likely to reside in 2601, 2602, 2604, 2605, 2606
and 2607 postcodes.— Residents of postcodes 2611, 2612 and 2614 tend to have very low levels of negatively geared property investments, opting instead for cash and other types of investments focused on capital gains.
— Residents of 2617 are most likely to have some cash and moderately geared property investments but tend to have no other forms of investments.
— Finally, postcodes 2609, 2900, 2904, 2911, 2912, 2913 and 2914 have high proportions of investors with negatively geared property but who tend to have relatively little cash or other forms of investments.