EquiHomes Explained: Equity-Based Home Building Without Traditional Finance
For a generation of Australians, the path to building a home has run through the same narrow gate: save a deposit, qualify for a construction loan, and service that debt for decades. For many capable, hard-working people, that gate stays shut. Deposits are hard to assemble, lending criteria are strict, and the cost of finance […]
The National Housing Accord and How Developers Are Responding
Australia has a housing supply problem that has been decades in the making, and the national housing accord is the federal response designed to confront it. Signed between the Commonwealth, states and territories, local government, investors and the construction industry, the accord set an aspirational target of building well over one million new homes across […]
Masterplanned Communities in Melbourne’s North: The Clan Estate, Beveridge
Melbourne is growing north, and few places capture that story as clearly as Beveridge. Once a quiet township on the Hume Freeway, it now sits at the leading edge of one of Victoria’s fastest-expanding growth corridors. Land that was farmland a generation ago is being transformed into the streets, parks and homes of new communities, […]
How the Nexus Wealth Fund Works: Equity, Income Stream and Absolute Return
How the Nexus Wealth Fund Works: Equity, Income Stream and Absolute Return Most property investors face a choice that is more limiting than it first appears. They can buy a single asset directly, which concentrates their capital and their risk in one location and one stage of the property cycle, or they can buy into […]
How to Evaluate a Property Developer Before You Invest
Before you invest with any property developer, ask them this: not one question, but a structured set of them. Property development can build real wealth, but it concentrates risk in the hands of the people running the project. The single most important decision an investor makes is not which project to back; it is which […]
ESG in Property Development: Sustainability, Social Impact and the JGI Literacy Partnership
ESG has become one of the most used and least understood terms in property. Environmental, social and governance is easy to claim and hard to prove, and the gap between a sustainability statement and a sustainable building can be wide. For investors, buyers and communities alike, the question that matters is not whether a developer […]
Inside Lune Black Rock: Bayside Luxury on Beach Road
Beach Road is one of the most coveted addresses in Melbourne. It traces the curve of Port Phillip Bay, and the homes that sit on it are bound by a simple, unforgiving constraint: there is only so much of it, and almost none of it ever comes up for redevelopment. That scarcity is the backdrop […]
The Five-Filter Site Selection Framework Used by Nexus Developments
Most failed developments do not fail at construction. They fail at acquisition, when a site that never should have been bought is dressed up with optimistic assumptions and pushed through anyway. The discipline that separates durable developers from the rest is almost always exercised before a single contract is signed, in the way sites are […]
Land Lease Communities and Resort-Style Retirement Living in Regional Victoria
For a generation of Australians approaching retirement, the maths of staying put no longer adds up. A large family home in a metropolitan suburb may be worth a great deal on paper, but it is expensive to maintain, often poorly suited to ageing in place, and surrounded by neighbours who have long since moved on. […]
What 7-8 Star NatHERS Really Means for Homebuyers and Investors
When you buy a new home, the number that dominates the conversation is the price. But there is another number that will shape your experience of that home for as long as you live in it, and it rarely gets the attention it deserves: the energy rating. A home’s thermal performance determines how much it […]