A great article published here by RealEstate tells reveals which professions in Australia have the most landlords - http://realestate.com.au/news/who-owns-australias-homes-teachers-nurses-truckies-and-cops-revealed-as-mostprolific-property-investors/.
Interestingly, teachers, nurses, truck drivers, and cops make up a sizeable portion, showing that property investing isn't only for so-called top-tier professions such as physicians, businessmen, CEOs, and so on.
The article goes on to reveal there more nurses who own investment properties than accountants, and more primary school and high school teachers who own investment properties then people in IT leadership positions.
People in these types of roles tend to own only 1 investment property - in Victoria 403.000 out of 560,000 property investors only own 1 investment property.
Summarised below are the top 10 professions ranked by number of property investors.
1. General Manager - 66,000 investors
2. Teachers - 64,000 investors
3. CEO / MD - 61,000 investors
4. Nurse - 55,000 investors
5. Accountant - 49,000 investors
6. Office Administrator - 41,000 investors
7. Advertising/Sales Manager - 40,000 investors
8. Admin Assistant - 40,000 investors
9. Program/Project Administrator - 25,000 investors
10. Software Developer - 25,000 investors