{"id":788001,"date":"2026-07-08T23:48:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/788001\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T23:48:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T23:48:08","slug":"build-to-rent-emerges-as-key-part-of-australias-housing-mix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/788001\/","title":{"rendered":"Build-to-rent emerges as key part of Australia&#8217;s housing mix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpamag.com\/au\/news\/general\/australias-build-to-rent-pipeline-surges-to-40bn\/574232\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Build-to-rent has arrived<\/a>, and together with other institutional housing models will play an important role in delivering more high-quality rental homes for Australians at scale,&#8221; Kandelaars said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Institutional investors are looking for markets where they can invest with confidence. Better data, greater transparency and more mature investment settings all help attract the long-term capital needed to deliver more housing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ben Martin-Henry (pictured top right), head of private assets research, Pacific\u00a0at MSCI, said the index fills an important gap in local market data.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.propertycouncil.com.au\/media-releases\/build-to-rent-index-an-important-step-to-grow-the-pool-of-australian-housing-investment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">index closes a significant data gap<\/a> in the Australian market,&#8221; Martin-Henry said. &#8220;For institutional investors evaluating BTR as a standalone allocation, or comparing it against established commercial property sectors, a credible performance benchmark has been a missing piece.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These results show the sector holding its own against core real estate on a risk-adjusted basis, with a distinctive yield and cost structure that investors now have the data to properly underwrite.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;Build-to-rent has arrived, and together with other institutional housing models will play an important role in delivering more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":788002,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,371805,7688,5474,44],"class_list":["post-788001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-build-to-rent","tag-housing","tag-investment","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788001\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/788002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}