Reading Time: 2 minutes Australia: The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and real estate investment manager Hines have acquired two BTR properties in Brisbane, comprising 354 units.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Australia: Scape, the largest owner and operator of student housing in Australia, has closed on A$3 billion in fresh debt financing.
Reading Time: 3 minutes UK: Seven countries have issued warnings over travel to the UK in the wake of ongoing violent anti-immigration protests and riots.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Australia: Superannuation fund AustralianSuper has completed its first build-to-rent-to-own housing development (BTRTO), located in Melbourne’s Kensington suburb.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Australia: The NSW government has revealed plans to build apartment blocks for Sydney’s essential workers, offering them reduced rent so they are not priced out of the city.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Australia: Developer AsheMorgan has received planning consent for a BTR development in Melbourne’s Docklands which will feature more than 900 apartments over two towers.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Australia: The City of Sydney has proposed several amendments to the Sydney Local Environment Plan that would encourage developers to deliver more BTR and coliving schemes in central Sydney.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Australia: Coliv Macquarie, an entity led by Point Capital’s Mark Peters and Lucas Salagaras, has submitted plans for a 16-storey coliving tower in Parramatta, NSW.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Australia: Developer Cedar Pacific and Japanese company Sumitomo Forestry have signed a deal to jointly develop a $1.2 billion ESG-focused BTR portfolio in Australia and New Zealand.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Dr Sabine Schaffer of Pro-invest Group talks to ULN about converting hotels to coliving. Filmed at the 2024 GIOHIS conference in Abu Dhabi.
