Talking Property with CBRE

Shifting the dial on Australia’s housing shortage

Talking Property with CBRE

Show Notes

There are numerous hurdles and challenges to overcome to solve for Australia’s housing crisis.

But in the inimitable words of Bob the Builder, ‘Can we fix it? Yes, we can.”

That was the message from the Property Council of Australia’s recent National Housing Solutions Summit and it’s something we explore in our latest Talking Property podcast with two of the panelists: Mirvac CEO Development, Stuart Penklis and Building 4.0 CRC CEO Professor Mathew Aitchison. We’ll need to be more innovative, take the lead from overseas countries like Sweden, and incentivise global investment at scale.

Tune in to find out how prefabrication, emerging housing types such as Land Lease estates and the introduction of a housing Research & Development Corporation could help Australia shift the dial.

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