This week on the Development Ready podcast we have Managing Director of Di Marco Group and publisher and founder of The Urban Developer, Adam Di Marco.

We speak to Adam about his journey from property developer to start-up founder & entrepreneur, plus discuss topics such as:
⁃ Boutique development and its place in the Brisbane market
⁃ How technology is changing the way we find and acquire property
⁃ How the urban developer was conceived and founded and
⁃ What the future of information looks like.

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Show notes

• 01:34 - Introduction
• 02:31 - Who he is and what he does
• 03:08 - His business startups
• 05:29 - Background
• 07:32 - The purpose of The Urban Developer
• 09:46 - The Urban Developer
• 14:37 - Events and connecting with community
• 18:09 - Urbanity Conference, September 2018
• 22:57 - Their content readership
• 24:30 - Extracting and sharing information
• 26:49 - Education and delivery
• 29:36 - Current market trends
• 31:37 - Foreign developer data
• 34:58 - Biggest problems facing developers right now
• 36:24 - Offshore funding
• 37:35 - Di Marco Group
• 40:15 - Brisbane boutique development
• 42:06 - Target market area
• 43:02 - Lessons learned and key traits
• 45:10 - Getting started
• 46:30 - The future of the Urban Developer
• 48:51 - Founding core values
• 52:50 - 1 focus, 1 goal
• 53:47 - Best advice

 

Links

• The Urban Developer
• Cityshape
• Urbanity
• Leighton Properties
• Marquette Properties
• Neometro