The property and construction industries are constantly evolving. Planning reforms, housing policy, construction costs, infrastructure investment and market conditions all influence project outcomes.
Site Intel brings together analysis, commentary and practical insights to help project teams understand the broader forces shaping development and delivery across Australia.
Permit Pending explores the realities behind housing, planning and development in Australia. From housing delivery and planning reform to project feasibility and construction challenges, each article examines the systems and decisions that influence what ultimately gets built.
Australia’s housing challenge has shifted. The issue is no longer simply a shortage of homes—it’s a market repricing risk across finance, feasibility, construction and delivery. Until projects stack commercially, policy announcements alone won’t build more housing.
Australia’s housing debate is dominated by approvals, dwelling targets and supply. But what happens when we stop measuring housing success by numbers alone and start asking whether we’re creating homes people actually want to live in?
Planning delays, infrastructure gaps, feasibility challenges and financing constraints are all blamed for Australia’s housing shortage. But which bottleneck is really preventing housing delivery?
There’s a lot of noise right now about housing. Talk about spare bedrooms and how many homes have an ‘excess’ of these. Talk of downsizing for older Australians so younger families ‘get a go’. And “using what we already have”.
On paper this all sounds logical. In reality however, it is missing the point. Join me as I analyse the problem not just from a data perspective, but from a development, design and real-world delivery lens.
Melbourne’s auctions surge, activity-centre maps expand, and Toorak shakes. How to fix housing without repeating the same mistakes.
Victoria’s new VC282 planning amendment fast-tracks single and small second dwellings, but will it solve the housing crisis? This week’s Permit Pending digs into housing targets, Melbourne’s shifting commercial landscape, economic warning signs, and the design solutions we should be building now.
This so-called “trophy investment” is a childcare centre on a diesel-soaked intersection. Here’s what they didn’t tell you in the brochure.
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