Is there a market for family-style apartment living in Australia?

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3 Responses

  1. Will Coogan says:

    Nice analysis Ivan. As a european, I’ve expressed my dismay (mostly to deaf ears) on the lack of family-orientated apartment development in Melbourne during the recent (is it over?) property boom.

    It appears developers are not yet sophisticated enough, or are too risk averse to try and go after this market. It does mean designing buildings a little different and probably less yield than pumping out standard (sub-standard?) one and two beds.

    Lets hope we have some leadership from State or Federal Government to mandate a mix of dwelling types, and basic better standards (in VIC there is no requirement for apartment bedrooms to have natural light or ventilation). City of Vancouver in Canada have done it really well – see http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/guidelines/H004.pdf

    • ivan says:

      Thanks very much for the comment Will. I think that innovative developers in partnership with progressive local governments will drive this – not State or federal Government. All we can hope for from S and F government is that they don’t get in the way! Of course the overall housing objective is to facilitate innovation to produce a diversity of dwelling stock to give people choice.

  2. Daryl Treloar says:

    Ivan this is not absolutely in line with your comments but following up on Will’s see a book written by Robert Crawford Life Cycle Assessment in the Built Environment an interesting read. I am expecting a copy soon. Robert worked with my son Graham at Deakin and Melbourne University on Embodied Energy. While I was at Surf Coast Shire we did look at providing a variety of housing stock which was under the banner of affordable housing (not social). Interesting point on who needs what type of housing and where

    Daryl

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