Dutton has bought and sold a dozen houses and apartments since he was 20, of which his second house was a 1970s brick house in Murrumba Downs.
“I started part-time work at a butcher shop after school until I started university,” he said. “I saved and bought a house at 19 and built a business from nothing to ultimately employ 40 people.” Two years later, Dutton made a 25 per cent gain on that apartment when he sold it for $116,500, despite Brisbane’s median only rising 14 per cent in that time.Like so many of his generation since then, Dutton has done well from Australia’s soaring property values of the past three decades, in some cases making multimillion-dollar capital gains as Brisbane’s median house price has steadily risen to its current median of $831,000.
The Duttons also own a three-bedroom apartment in Brisbane’s Riparian Plaza tower, purchased a year ago for $2.7 million from Toowoomba millionaire John Wagner.
Remind me again, what is the financial position Elmer Fudd aka, Albanese
Must be a slow news day at The Age. Good on him for being entrepreneurial. Now for balance when are you writing a piece on the Prime Minister's portfolio?
So what, who gives a rats.
Why is that of interest to anyone? Shows he’s a great businessman.
So! He's a conservative with experience in business , not one of your ilk,a comrade trot like the new PM.
Good hard working Aussie brought and sold pm owns 5 property
Errrrr newsflash he is allowed too.
He owns many houses to provide shelter for boat people arriving soon.
Honestly who cares!
Soft side = erectile dysfunction
He bought and sold 12 houses in 31 years… how is this a story and why do people care? House prices have probably tripled / quadrupled in that period of time.
Is that actually newsworthy or part of character assassination master plan
So what?
But he needs to trot out the wife and kids in an attempt to humanise him. There are some things money can't buy.
What about Albanese's $10million portfolio
Might as well do something constructive with the salaries politicians earn. I’d do the same
Does DUTTON really think that he has any hope come 2025. He is kidding himself.
Absolutely and completely worthless information!😝
So has jackietrad
Got off his butt and did it all without handouts I’ll wager. No surprise the Age would see this as a negative.
Hard worker decent family man
Likes a bit of negative gearing then.
Try and buy a house today for $95.000 braggadocios Unless your going to house the forgotten people in your property’s you can sit down Buff Head
So what . Low journalism again
What's the news here?
So what? Why is this in the news?
Is that all? 12 properties in 40 years sounds about right
You know what as much as I don’t like him I don’t hold his wealth against him (as I didn’t with Kevin Rudd and Malcolm Turnbull) - as long as it was legally attained
And your point is?
So?
In other news, a man has bought some celery.
Care factor ZERO. Next!!!!!!!!
So he wanted to be a property developer/investor and a politician since he was a young man. Wonder if he ever considered that those two could be financially complimentary in some way🤔. Probably not! But wow! What good luck he’s had amassing an estimated $300m from his hard work!
So !!!!
Good he is clever.
So?
Anyone is able to buy property Why single out Dutton?
Good on him. Smart and astute. Exactly what we want in the next PM.
and the problem with that is?
how is this a news story - man buys and sells properties, wow.
Is that illegal? What are you proposing he should of done?
We have a new government. Who is this Dutton you harp on about. We just had the Labor government intervene in the Pacific to rectify the mess those such as Dutton left and create opportunity for improved engagement and shared prosperity. The Liberal party is a nothing, move on.
Good on Dutton
Come on!! Unbiased always, really! Very poor form and just dump
On a cops wage……yeah there’s nothing to see there. 😂
smart man how do you make10 million in politics 26 years that's 400 k a year
Using tax rorts to create wealth on the back of actual working Australians… yuk
Lucy_Macken check the ratio
Good luck to him,shows he has business sense. What is wrong with that.
RBJRON So what I know truckies that have done that. Actually one driver I worked with owned an entire street!
Smart man
Kind of wondering what the purpose of this actually is?
Excellent he has business acumen and not some union Hack sucking off the public purse
Dutton 'I bought a house when I was 19'. The Age: 'Property Bragger exposed'. That's what happens when clicks are more important than proper journalism.
So he has brains as well as good looks. Leftys, you need to learn from this and stop being parasites on the State.
Good on him
Gutter journalism that comes out of jealousy
The only landlord who ran for Prime Minister was Albo.
I've never once heard him brag about it. Why should an ability to make money be seen as a negative trait? You're reaching.
Well good on him. Property investment is not illegal!! He just needs to declare properties owned on the Register of Members Interests.
...and?
ThisIsNotJournalism
Our interest in your hourly and daily promotion of Dutton is zero.bias propagandaLNP
good investments. Noting wrong there
Corruption?
So this is how he got rich... Other journalists tell us it was from shady insider stuff but now you have cleared that up. Thanks
Wow good to see the age showing its true colours this early. Pls keep your fawning for new Labour leaders only, as usual.
So what🤷♂️
I don’t begrudge him success without more. It sounds like he’s worked hard and worked his way up so good on him.
That's great!
And neither were acquired by union slush funds 😁
Really!!! Slow news day…
So
It should be a story of encouragement and good news. Wouldn’t that be good? Just like Anthony Albanese is PM today owning a property portfolio having been brought up in a council flat.
While you've been wanking in your bathroom. Now it's time to CRITICISE. Yes. Wash your filthy hands.
🥱
Stop sucking on LNP dick; they were smashed & shattered at the election, stop trying to redeem them & write some actual news stories
Means he knows how to invest and create. That is a great quality.
The beauty of the complex family trust structure. The go to for over 90% of politicians.
Smart guy. Probably the kind of person you would want in charge of financial decisions.
The Dutton Daily is getting real old…
and you call this news i call it out as jealousy and a slow news day far from politics... but hey thats what happens when you let sections of the media loose
And? I'm failing to understand the purpose of this news article
How is any of this relevant? Apart from being an advertorial for Domain.
So what?
Now do Albo to show your not partisan 🤪
That all 🙄Albo the battler has 7 houses now
Ahh he was checking out properties whilst on patrol as a cop 😂 softly softly
Jealous?
If there's profit to be had in housing of course there will be affordability problems. Unless you make it less or unprofitable to buy multiple homes there will always be affordability problems for newcomers.
Albo's no different. They like many other Australians are profiting from housing at the expense of younger Australians.
And?