August
Australia has a ‘thousand levers’ to pull to increase new home supply
Governments must create an environment that makes it easier to add more housing, including bringing in more skilled tradies, says Mirvac’s development head.
- Michael Bleby
Developers turn to micro apartments to fix housing crisis
Well-designed apartments smaller than 32 square metres can be rented out to singles and couples at rates below the market.
- Larry Schlesinger
Deals in build-to-rent market ready for lift-off, says US giant
Build-to-rent housing is potentially a big contributor in efforts to plug the country’s chronic housing shortfall which has sent rents skyrocketing.
- Nick Lenaghan
July
Build-to-rent starts tumble as high costs take a toll
But by the end of the decade, build-to-rent housing could hit its next growth spurt, accounting for nearly 20 per cent of apartment starts.
- Nick Lenaghan
June
Macquarie joins rush into land lease sector after $2.9b raising
Macquarie Asset Management’s new global fund will invest in a land lease business on the East Coast alongside investments in logistics and rental housing
- Larry Schlesinger
May
Dutch pension fund giant puts $700m into Sydney build-to-rent start-up
Apt.Residential has won the backing of PGGM, which has committed $700m to the rollout of 2500 apartments.
- Larry Schlesinger
Victoria open to tax breaks to boost home building
Premier Jacinta Allan says her Labor government is open to pulling every lever available to boost housing supply, after developers called for taxation tweaks to boost investment.
- Gus McCubbing
October 2023
Investors could be elbowed out by big build-to-rent players: Jarden
As tenancy regulations shift in favour of renters, raising standards and offering greater security, major BTR players be advantaged over traditional residential investors.
- Nick Lenaghan
Aware shows glimpse of BTR value in $158m village deal
The $160 billion superannuation fund has acquired a newly completed village containing build-to-rent apartments in bid to grow its holdings of the increasingly popular category.
- Campbell Kwan
GPT to run $1b student digs portfolio as rents rise
GPT’s move into rental housing in the form of student digs comes amid increasing institutional interest in that sector.
- Nick Lenaghan
September 2023
Hotel developer Pro-invest plans big move into build to rent
Pro-invest will leverage off its expertise in developing and operating 6000 hotel rooms and launch into the build-to-rent apartment market this year.
- Larry Schlesinger
- Exclusive
- Build-to-rent
Global funds giant PGIM revs up co-living housing plans
Global property funds powerhouse PGIM Real Estate has joined forces with the founders of trendy modular hotel chain Tribe to roll out a portfolio of co-living facilities, at the affordable end of the growing build-to-rent sector.
- Nick Lenaghan
Build-to-rent investors swoop in as UK squeezes small landlords
Britain’s generation of renters continues to expand while the pool of traditional landlords dwindle.
- Damian Shepherd
Vicinity hunts capital partner for $1b build-to-rent focused platform
Potential backers are being told Vicinity would consider tipping in its Buranda Village retail precinct, located five kilometres from the Brisbane CBD.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Aware Real Estate buys Crown Group’s Mastery site for $121m
The acquisition by Aware Super’s property platform will bulk up its burgeoning property portfolio, which is already at about $2 billion.
- Nila Sweeney
August 2023
This firm focused on BTR for budget retirees - and it paid off
Eureka’s budget build-to-rent portfolio distinguished itself with a healthy 33 per cent increase in its portfolio valuation to $229 million, a contrast to the asset write-downs experienced by many of its larger peers.
- Nick Lenaghan
- Opinion
- Housing affordability
PM must drive a wooden stake through the rent control vampire
Instead of sucking the life out of housing supply, national cabinet should purse four practical steps to improve it.
- Mike Zorbas
July 2023
Safe and steady returns a winning formula for build-to-rent
Surging foreign investment along with a crisis in housing supply have combined to throw fresh attention onto investment returns in the fast-growing BTR sector.
- Nick Lenaghan
Sentinel plugs $300m housing project into biomedical precinct
Institutional interest in the build-to-rent sector has been turbo-charged by soaring rental growth and a shortage of housing.
- Nick Lenaghan
June 2023
Housing-squeezed UK sizes up factory-built homes
A hit TV show made the idea popular, then a corporate crash cast some shade. Are modular homes still the solution to the housing squeeze?
- Hans van Leeuwen