Suburb Trends February 2022 | The Impact of Build-to-Rent Properties on Mum & Dad Investors

From The Elephant In The Room Property Podcast | Inside Australian Real Estate Chris Bates

These days, the supply of build-to-rent properties, or “multi-family dwellings” is steadily rising. But how much will it affect the market overall?

Should we be concerned about the potential risks this growing segment poses? How about the opportunity costs and losses in today’s booming market? What do we make of that?

Join today’s Suburb Trends episode, along with our resident data geek Kent Lardner, as we cover the rise of build-to-rent properties, how it might impact mum & dad high rise investors, Kent’s Win-Loss Ratio, and heaps more!

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Episode Highlights:

Approaching the rise of build-to-rent properties [1:21]
Why are people making build-to-rent properties when there’s an oversupply? [03:08]
Yield drives “corporate landlord” behaviour [05:22]
Build-to-rent assets are a totally different product [09:02]
How attractive are build-to-rent properties to long-term tenants? [12:20]
Are there plenty of build-to-rent properties available today? [15:45]
A theory about why they’re called “multi-family” properties [17:27]
The high risk individual apartment holders face [19:12]
Looking at the “boom” and what’s happened (& will happen) in the market [25:15]
The danger of the housing affordability push [29:00]
Opportunity costs (and losses) in a booming market [35:27]
Kent’s Win-Loss Ratio [37:36]
Price growth in properties along northern beaches due to COVID [43:17]
Locations with the worst win-loss ratios [46:01]
The gap between privileged investors versus those on a tight budget [53:21]
What’s in the next Suburb Trends episode? [56:34]