November
Heavyweights anchor Conscious IM’s $200m housing fund
Conscious’ long-time backer, the Paul Ramsay Foundation, is cornerstoning the new fund while Rich Lister Terry Snow’s foundation has also written a cheque.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
- Opinion
- Australian economy
Cost-of-living crisis is a social crisis too
An economically pessimistic society finds it a lot harder to repair and renew itself in other ways.
- John Roskam
- Exclusive
- Property development
Grollo’s AGL deal points to $1b key worker housing portfolio
The family company that has managed housing for Mount Buller workers for years is eyeing a future of institutional investment in 10,000 beds.
- Michael Bleby
October
- Exclusive
- Property development
Lighthouse gets $130m social loan from CBA, NAB
Specialist disability housing could grow to be a $10 billion sector but it could also boost the development of a new loan asset class.
- Michael Bleby
Local boosts social, affordable housing, backed by Macquarie
While governments are trying to boost the country’s stock of social and affordable homes, some developers are already doing it – and taking a first-mover advantage.
- Michael Bleby
- Exclusive
- Public housing
Tetris Capital, Icon to take on project for 1400 Victoria homes
The success of the state government’s first so-called ground lease model has prompted it to repeat the process on a larger scale, costing up to $850 million.
- Michael Bleby
Affordable housing generates $45,000 benefit for each tenant: study
The upside of improved travel times, more leisure spending and better productivity from affordable housing schemes could provide a $64 billion boost to the economy, an EY study for Aware Super found.
- Hannah Wootton
Minns rules out Victorian empty homes tax for NSW
NSW Premier Chris Minns will tackle housing affordability by building more homes, rather than imposing ‘use it, or lose it’ measures on landowners to boost supply
- Samantha Hutchinson
Height bonus lets developer boost affordable housing
A new agreement shows how councils and developers can increase key worker housing development - at no extra cost.
- Michael Bleby
September
Andrews ignored advice to axe stamp duty in housing plan
The state’s 800,000 new home push ignores tax measures that could free up existing housing stock – but that would mean a loss of lucrative stamp duty revenue.
- Michael Bleby
Affordable housing mandates can work for developers, SGCH says
Without enforcement of affordable housing mandates, voluntary schemes such as density bonuses are unlikely to get much traction, advocates say.
- Michael Bleby
Mookhey cops ratings agency doubts about budget surplus pledge
Ratings agencies have poured doubt on NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey’s pledge to return NSW’s finances to surplus after his first budget revealed almost $8 billion to boost public sector wages and baked in expensive election promises.
- Updated
- Samantha Hutchinson
‘Derelict’ Melbourne towers to go in 1.2m new homes plan
Two 1960s-era social housing blocks in Carlton will be ripped down and rebuilt in one of the first projects of the Albanese government’s plan to deliver new homes.
- Patrick Durkin
The new way to unlock ‘hundreds of millions’ for affordable housing
The first national platform for affordable housing would also show for the first time where around the country all the homes were located.
- Michael Bleby
- 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
The housing game – who’s in it for the money?
Australia is adopting a new policy of carrots as well as sticks to get states building more homes. But while money helps, the biggest motivator is a changing political environment.
- Michael Bleby
Affordable housing mandates would backfire, developers say
As Australia’s largest states gear up to reform their planning systems, there’s a battle under way over how far the changes will go.
- Michael Bleby
HAFF opens door to super fund investment in housing
But whether the $3.5 trillion pension industry bankrolls the scheme, which passed parliament on Thursday, will depend on the investment mandate.
- Hannah Wootton
- Exclusive
- Commercial property finance
Planning risks hold up affordable housing investment, super funds say
The government needs to reform planning laws to entice the investors it needs to achieve its “ambitious” goal of building 1.2 million homes in five years.
- Michael Bleby and Hannah Wootton
- Opinion
- Opinion
Property veterans lean in on affordable housing challenge
Commercial property leaders are stepping up to the challenge of providing affordable accommodation to those who need it.
- Robert Harley
