Treasury’s consultation paper (the paper) on the reporting thresholds under the reforms to Australia’s merger and acquisition regime demonstrates an arguably worthy intent to change behaviour in other sectors that will make housing among other property and city assets a lot more costly.
The property industry is sensitive to changes in the mergers and acquisitions control regime due to three factors: the value, the volume and the frequency of transactions which take place across the spectrum of residential and commercial assets. A control regime which creates barriers to entry or expansion in the property market will prevent or slow deals and diminish economic activity
across an industry that employs almost 1.5 million people
