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The Financial Review Property Summit brings together the industry’s most influential leaders, investors, commentators and disruptors over two days to discuss the trends, threats and opportunities of this critical pillar of the Australian economy.

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New apartment volumes will nearly double, if conditions are right, Oxford Economics Australia says.

Apartments will boost housing numbers – if they’re viable

Conditions are improving and developers are dusting off plans and preparing new projects. But it’s not yet clear if they will all go ahead.

  • Michael Bleby
Becs Willson at The Australian Financial Review Property Summit last week.

Australian farmland an ‘unbelievable’ opportunity for super funds

Proterra’s Becs Willson says it’s not too late for super funds to invest in the agricultural sector, where land scarcity and food shortages are driving strong returns.

  • Larry Schlesinger
Australia’s housing woes are causing everybody to make decisions that they might not ordinarily make.

Housing is eating the economy in countless ways

Australia’s housing woes are causing policymakers, investors and households to make decisions they might not ordinarily make. But to fix it, we need to escape a vicious cycle.

  • James Thomson

Build-to-rent sector faces wave of consolidation

Rising costs and limited capital could force some operators in the sector to exit the market.

  • Nila Sweeney

Offices are back – except if they’re out in the suburbs

The country’s most experienced real estate executives and investors warn that low-grade towers are unlikely to ever recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Michael Bleby
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September

The Australian office property market is deeply divided, and likely to become more so.

‘End of WFH nonsense’ not the only factor in office property fightback

The office property market is deeply divided between the assets no one wants and the jewels that are in short supply.

  • James Thomson
Morgan Stanley Australia chairman Tim Church told the Financial Review Property Summit that he expected M&A activity will pick up.

Morgan Stanley’s Tim Church awaits real estate M&A’s ‘big thaw’

The investment bank’s veteran real estate operator says expectations of impending interest rate cuts and a desire to deploy capital is getting deals going.

  • Jemima Whyte

AirTrunk’s Robin Khuda reveals his luxury apartment side-hustle

The businessman has said plenty about the prospects of his data centre company, but has not spoken before about his high-end real estate development.

  • Larry Schlesinger
HMC Capital’s David Di Pilla at The Australian Financial Review Property Summit on Tuesday.

Di Pilla prepares to break IPO drought with mystery fourth float

The rise of private capital is one of the big forces in markets globally. That doesn’t mean listed markets have to be left behind, says the HMC Capital boss.

  • Anthony Macdonald
Chris Tynan is the head of real estate at Blackstone in Australia.

Property investors lash Labor’s plan to cut international students

The federal government intends to reduce the number of overseas admissions by 30 per cent, which the real estate sector says is short-sighted.

  • Michael Bleby
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The key to diversity is company culture: Khuda
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The key to diversity is company culture: Khuda

Robin Khuda says AirTrunk is succeeding in diversity because it's embedded in its culture.

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Charter Hall CEO David Harrison.

Power crisis is as big as Australia’s housing crisis: Charter Hall

The lack of reliable energy is already hitting industrial property assets and will hit harder as investment ramps up in data centres, the industry warns.

  • Michael Bleby
Density must go up to address housing supply challenges: economist
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Density must go up to address housing supply challenges: economist

Barrenjoey chief economist Jo Masters tells the Financial Review Property Summit that an important part of the housing supply fix is increasing household size.

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Robin Khuda and Chris Tynan.

What we missed in the AirTrunk frenzy

AirTrunk founder Robin Khuda is thinking bigger than his own company. He says the staggering growth prospects for data centres can change the Australian economy.  

  • James Thomson
Housing Minister Clare O’Neil at the property summit.

Labor has targeted the right housing supply side solutions

The key now is execution and accountability across all levels of government to give more young Australians the opportunity to share in the dream of home ownership

  • The AFR View

Substantial rate cuts needed before buyers will return: experts

Even a 0.25 percentage point reduction in the cash rate would have little impact on affordability for most middle and lower income buyers.

  • Nila Sweeney
Lendlease chief executive Tony Lombardo

The $6 trillion time bomb hanging over the housing crisis

Surging construction costs and house values have priced too many younger buyers out of the market. And changing demographics mean time for action is running out.

  • James Thomson
Everybody knows someone impacted by unaffordable rent
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Everybody knows someone impacted by unaffordable rent

Housing Trust managing director Michele Adair says the rental crisis is no longer the exclusive concern of "bleeding heart" lefties. We are all impacted.

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Lendlease chief executive Tony Lombardo, right, with AFR columnist James Thomson on stage at the Financial Review Property Summit.

Lendlease chief says critics ‘got it 80 per cent right’

Under pressure from major investors like John Wylie and David Di Pilla, the country’s largest property group is selling more than $4.5 billion in assets

  • Michael Bleby
Housing minister Clare O’Neil speaking at the AFR Property Summit

Developers warn creeping costs making all but luxury homes difficult

Some of the country’s largest builders say they are pivoting towards properties for older downsizers and wealthy baby boomers to make the margins they need.

  • Larry Schlesinger and Michael Bleby
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Chris Lucas in front of his new project Batard at the top of Bourke Street in Melbourne.

Why Chris Lucas’ new top-end Melbourne venue won’t be a private club

The city’s restaurant king reveals his $45 million plan for a four-level venue known as Batard at the top end of Bourke Street.

  • Patrick Durkin

June

Mortgage discharges, when a borrower either pays off their loan or sells the underlying property, are running at a record $40 billion per quarter.

High rates forcing indebted home owners to sell: RBA

Highly leveraged borrowers are selling out of property and consolidating their savings into offset accounts, RBA assistant governor Christopher Kent says.

  • Michael Read
What downsizers and upgraders prefer: new detached homes will form a larger part of the new housing mix in the next building boom.

The next home-building boom is coming

Despite higher borrowing and construction costs, increasing demand for new housing will draw out capital – but not from first home buyers.

  • Michael Bleby

Property profits hit 14-year high

The share of profitable home sales would likely increase further in the June quarter as values continue to rise, CoreLogic says.

  • Nila Sweeney
Marriott’s Richard Crawford with Jason Makris at the Marina Mirage site on the Gold Coast.

Rich Listers sign up Marriott for $500m Gold Coast marina project

Marriott will operate the new Marina Mirage hotel under its Luxury Collection brand after signing an agreement with developers the Makris family.

  • Larry Schlesinger