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The future of housing in Australia. Let me know your thoughts. #shorts #money #investing #house

9 Mar 2023 · 1 min

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In this short monologue, the speaker highlights a clear shift in Australian real‑estate development toward build‑to‑rent schemes. Historically, developers built homes to sell, but now they are constructing large rental complexes that are intended to be kept as long‑term rentals. The speaker frames this trend as the government’s emerging solution for public‑housing supply, ensuring that the population has access to roofs over their heads. He warns listeners that failing to act now in the property market is a mistake, urging them to start saving, become financially educated, and adopt strategic moves to place themselves on the “right side of the wealth divide.” The overall message combines market observation with personal financial advice.

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They are there, the signs are there, and it's very, very evident which— where all these breadcrumbs are actually leading to in terms of how people buy real estate and where people are going to be living. Breadcrumb number 1 is the build-to-rent schemes. Now, in the past, what would happen is that developers would come in, they'd develop some units, they'd develop some townhouses, but then they would sell them to the local marketplace for people to actually have a home. What is happening instead now Is that they're building these complexes not to sell, but to rent out. And this is what the future of public housing is gonna be because this is the government's solution to actually providing supply to the marketplace to make sure that the population has a roof over their heads. If you are not making moves right now into this property market at this point in time, I think you've got rocks in your head. If you wanna put yourself on the right side of this wealth divide, you've gotta start saving some money, you've gotta get more strategic in what you're doing, you've gotta get yourself financially educated. This is what you need to be doing right now.