Build-to-rent transforming housing landscape
The build-to-rent market is set to boom in Australia, offering potential relief to a housing sector and rental market in crises and attracting billions of dollars in foreign investment.
The build-to-rent (BTR) market is set to boom in Australia as the model that is already massively popular overseas takes hold through added tax incentives and an influx of international developers seeing the housing crisis as an investment opportunity.
Melbourne was home to more than half of all BTR projects completed in Australia last year and 83 per cent of the total number of units built – 1,600 in total – but Brisbane is now emerging as a ho…