Kelly O’Dwyer looks at fining estate agents, lawyers and accountants under new FIRB rules
Despite clear rules and clear prohibitions, the Foreign Investment Review Board had failed to enforce laws restricting investment in real estate by foreign investors, Kelly O’Dwyer maintains.
The prominent Coalition MP Kelly O’Dwyer, currently chairing a federal inquiry into housing affordability and foreign ownership, told 2GB Money News the FIRB had been “asleep at the wheel.”
“There has been not one prosecution since 2006,” she told 2GB’s Ross Greenwood, adding to earlier comments made at forum hosted by Bloomberg News in Sydney on Tuesday.
O’Dwyer, who is due to provide the report with recommendations to Treasurer Joe Hockey in October, says the committee is looking at stiffer and wider penalties for non-compliance.
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On one hand I can see Kelly’s point of view that foreign investors need to be playing by the rules. I just hope she doesn’t spook foreign real estate buyers and stall the market