In today’s episode Veronica Morgan and Chris Bates interview Kris Daff, managing director of Make Venture, a Melbourne-based boutique development and investment company, Kris is also the managing director of Assemble, a homeowner-focused development company. Assemble attempts to bridge the gap between renting and home ownership by offering unique community-based development projects.

Developer Kris Daff and our hosts discuss the value that comes with nurturing organic communities within future development projects, but also discusses the hard questions about developments and their stagnant capital growth and severe defects.

Here’s what we covered:

• New direction for creating communities, rather than ‘just’ developments
• The severity of housing anxiety
• Ownership and locking down where you want to live
• Housing prices growing faster than consumers ability to save
• Why is one of Australia’s the largest super funds interested in one of Assembles developments
• Building the gap between societal needs and development projects
• How nurturing meaningful relationships in a complex can increase tenancy lengths
• Creating scarcity by creating quality communities
• How to find out how your builder attends to defects
• If you are going to buy off-the-plan how to do your due diligence

MENTIONED EPISODES:Episode 80 | Co-Living Episode 104 | Build-To-Rent Episode 106 | Dodgy Developers

GUEST LINKS:Assemble Make Ventures

HOST LINKS: Looking for a Sydney Buyers Agent? www.gooddeeds.com.au Work with Veronica: [email protected] 

Looking for a Mortgage Broker? www.wealthful.com.au Work with Chris: [email protected]

EPISODE TRANSCRIPT: Please note that this has been transcribed by half-human-half-robot, so brace yourself for typos and the odd bit of weirdness…This episode was recorded on 10 September, 2019.

https://www.theelephantintheroom.com.au/podcasts/108

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