Double Bay real estate agent Brad Pillinger said luxury real estate would always remain an attractive investment to the economic elite. Unlike stocks,harbourside mansions tend to always appreciate.

“Any person who amasses wealth wants to have property in some form as a large part of it because it’s largely immune from going backwards,” he said.

“You don’t have property crashes the way you do stock market crashes.”

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