Could building on top of older apartment blocks be one of the solutions to Australia’s housing crisis? Airspace above existing strata buildings is a $150 billion opportunity in Sydney alone according to one leading advocate.

Equally, is going up the only solution for the owners of these blocks? Given tight rental market conditions across the country, there’s also huge demand from investors wanting to purchase these blocks outright.

It’s a topic explored in this latest episode of Talking Property featuring Warren Livesey, Head of the Association of Rooftop & Airspace Development, and CBRE Metropolitan Investments Director Toby Silk.

They also delve into the opportunities for airspace development, not just above strata apartment blocks but also around hospitals, transportation hubs, fire and police stations to create key worker housing.

If you have any questions regarding this episode or property topics that you’d like CBRE to address in future episodes, please email us at talkingproperty@cbre.com.

There are positive signals for the Australian real estate sector. Inflation is showing signs of moderating, interest rates appear to have peaked, employment remains resilient and cap rate expansion seems to be topping out. All of this is flowing through to improving investor sentiment.

But we’re still in a very volatile and uncertain geopolitical environment and China’s economic woes are heightening.

So, what does this mean for real estate? Find out in this latest episode of Talking Property: The House View as CBRE’s Phil Rowland, Pacific Advisory Services CEO, and Sameer Chopra, Pacific Head of Research, chat about pricing, investor intentions, the vacancy outlook, cost of living pressures, and some of their key predictions.

If you have any questions regarding this episode or property topics that you’d like CBRE to address in future episodes, please email us at talkingproperty@cbre.com.

Funding constraints, rising interest rates and downward pressure on asset pricing have been key property market themes in 2023.

But what does the future hold? Will 2024 be a turning point – particularly for the office sector? Will debt funding be more readily available? And will investors increasingly look at new capital structures to drive their property investment strategies?

We unpack this and more in our latest Talking Property episode featuring CBRE’s Australian head of Offie and Capital Markets Research Tom Broderick, the Pacific head of CBRE’s Debt & Structured Finance team Andrew McCasker and CBRE’s Pacific head of Investment Banking Paul Ryan.

If you have any questions regarding this episode or property topics that you’d like CBRE to address in future episodes, please email us at: talkingproperty@cbre.com. You can also find out more about CBRE’s recent Lenders Sentiment Survey here and access our latest Australian Office Occupancy research here.

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While there’s broad agreement on some of the longer-term tailwinds for the Australian real estate market, conviction is still lacking when it comes to the strength of future rent growth, exit values and in some cases the regulatory environment.

That’s one of the areas up for discussion in our quarterly Talking Property: The House View podcast, which explores the opportunities and challenges ahead for the retail, office, industrial and living sectors.

Tune in to hear CBRE’s Pacific Advisory Services CEO Phil Rowland Pacific Head of Research Sameer Chopra give their take on fresh interest in the retail investment market, the ongoing gap between office fundamentals and sentiment, the unprecedented demand conditions and supply side challenges in the residential market and whether occupier demand is beginning to moderate in the industrial sector.

If you have any questions regarding this episode or property topics that you’d like CBRE to address in future episodes, please email us at talkingproperty@cbre.com.

In the second part of our 2024 property predictions series, we chat with ISPT’s Chris Chapple, Brookfield’s Leonie Wilkinson and Investa’s Pete Menegazzo.

They give us their views on the best property market opportunities this year and the areas ripe for transformation.

Sectors in the spotlight include life sciences and living, as Australia’s population demographics shift and the need for new housing continues to dominate the news headlines. The industrial & logistics sector, while coming off unprecedented highs, remains on the radar and premium office space is back in favour.

Challenges moving forward include the need to play catch up on the technology front, repurpose ageing office stock and combine and conquer as an industry to tackle complex sustainability challenges.

If you have any questions regarding this episode or property topics that you’d like CBRE to address in future episodes, please email us at: talkingproperty@cbre.com.

If you have any questions regarding this episode or property topics that you’d like CBRE to address in future episodes, please email us at talkingproperty@cbre.com.

The capital flowing into Australia’s commercial real estate sector dipped significantly in 2023, as many local and offshore investors sat on the sidelines. But are there signs of a market shift?

In this latest Talking Property episode, we zero in on how global investors are viewing the Australian market, which sectors are most in favour, where the money is coming from and what the expectations are for the year ahead.

CBRE’s Stuart McCann, Head of International Capital & Capital Advisory, Pacific and Southeast Asia joins Tom Broderick, CBRE’s Australian Head of Capital Markets Research, to discuss the outlook and some of the key trends highlighted in our latest Capital Flows report, which you can read here.

If you have any questions regarding this episode or property topics that you’d like CBRE to address in future episodes, please email us at talkingproperty@cbre.com.

To wrap up our 2024 property predictions series, we chat with Aware Real Estate’s Michelle McNally and Aliro Group’s David Southon.

They give us their views on the best property market opportunities this year and the areas ripe for transformation.

The tailwinds in residential and the opportunities being presented by supply challenges, immigration and a growing economy are among the topics up for discussion

If you have any questions regarding this episode or property topics that you’d like CBRE to address in future episodes, please email us at: talkingproperty@cbre.com.

If you have any questions regarding this episode or property topics that you’d like CBRE to address in future episodes, please email us at talkingproperty@cbre.com.