Might go and buy another rental property. Prices will be low and I can be sure to hike the rent in another few months while the tards listen to getup
I'm not up on the ins and outs of buying investment property, but if you purchased property in recent years and prices actually do take a sustained slump, you might have a little difficulty convincing lenders to lend you even more money to buy an asset in a falling market when thanks to falling prices, you find yourself in the unenviable position of owing the bank more than the market value of your assets.
I've never been in negative equity and am unlikely to ever be, since I own no investment property and I purchased my place of residence in 1999 when prices were still sane - they would have to collapse by 80% for me to owe the bank more than it's worth, and since I don't think they even fell that far during the great depression, I doubt they will now. However, I wouldn't put falls of 25-30% over the next five or six years off the cards. Maybe more even. Maybe not either, but who knows at this stage? The market overall is looking very shaky after years of huge price run ups. Prices on Darwin have fallen by 9% over the past few months, though Darwin is relatively small so is likely to be more volitile
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011 ... 178822.htm
It would be unfortunate if Australia went the same way as Japan went when their house price bubble burst 21 years ago (prices are only half what they were at the peak of the boom and are still falling very slowly) or the US more recently, where about a quater of all of those with a mortgage are now under water thanks to falling prices.
http://cr4re.com/charts/chart-images/Pr ... an2011.jpg
Prices need to come down in Australia but I hope they come down slowly - a rapid crash would have serious economic consequences.