In this episode we sit down with Lee Holdsworth, a Bathurst 1000 supercars winner and CBRE commercial real estate expert, who has a key focus on alternative investment assets, particularly in the renewables space.

With Australia’s energy transition dominating the headlines, Lee shares where he sees the best property opportunities, what’s driving investors to focus on alternative investments, the importance of finding the right capital partners and some of the new innovations to watch out for.

He also shares what put property on his radar, how to have a winner’s mindset, and the inherent irony in transitioning from a petrol guzzling career into one geared towards a net zero future.

Make sure to follow Talking Property wherever you get your podcasts to ensure you don’t miss our fortnightly insights and industry perspectives. And keep an eye out for an upcoming CBRE Research report on the renewables sector

In this first edition of The House View for 2025, CBRE’s Pacific Advisory Services CEO Phil Rowland and Pacific Head of Research Sameer Chopra give their take on the key opportunities and challenges for the Australian property sector.

They explore the concept of ‘exceptionalism’ and why we’re likely to see strong rent and capital value growth in premium, well located assets, while gains are expected to be much slower elsewhere.

The global and local trends shaping the property market are also up for discussion, as are Phil and Sameer’s key predictions on interest rates, cap rate compression, investment activity and the return to office.

To kick off 2025 we’ve spoken to four Australian property leaders about the best market opportunities this year, the potential industry game changers, and the areas ripe for transformation.

In this episode we hear from Dexus CEO Ross Du Vernet and GPT CEO Russell Proutt, who touch on everything from investment decision making through to the revitalisation of Australia’s CBDs, shaking up the way that tenants, landlords and investors think about office space, the intersection between real estate and infrastructure and the transformational

impact private institutional capital will have on the property sector.

And make sure to follow Talking Property wherever you get your podcasts to ensure you don’t miss our first CBRE House View episode for 2025 with Phil Rowland and Sameer Chopra.

Happy New Year!

To kick off 2025 we talk to key Australian property leaders about the best market opportunities this year, the potential industry game changers and the areas ripe for transformation.

We’re rolling out two episodes: this episode features QIC Real Estate Managing Director Deb Coakley and Growthpoint CEO Ross Lees. On January 23 we’ll go live with Part 2, featuring Dexus CEO Ross Du Vernet and GPT CEO Russell Proutt. They’re among the “new guard” of Australian property leaders following recent changes at the helm of some of the country’s top platforms.

Make sure to follow Talking Property wherever you get your podcasts to ensure you don’t miss Part 2 as well as our first House View for 2025 with CBRE’s Phil Rowland and Sameer Chopra.

For our final 2024 Talking Property episode, we join forces with Spencer Levy, who hosts CBRE’s hugely successful US property podcast, The Weekly Take.

Spencer is a Global Client Strategist & Senior Economic Advisor for CBRE. In our broad-ranging conversation, we discuss key learnings from his 2024 podcast guests and some high-level takeaways for Australian property players.

Up for discussion? The role Fed rate cuts have had on the market’s psychology, how modular construction could ease the current housing shortage, the secret sauce needed to make cities successful, how to combat NIMBYISM when it comes to the hot button topic of planning, and how to navigate the intersection of tech and real estate.

Resilience and how to be an effective leader are also on the conversation agenda. You can tune into The Weekly Take here and thanks for all your support for Talking Property in 2025.

Talking Property recently traveled to the Property Council of Australia’s annual Congress to discover and share what’s top of mind for the industry’s key decision makers.

In this episode we sit down with Congress panelist Amanda Steele – ISPT’s Group Executive, Head of Property and with Property Council of Australia CEO Mike Zorbas.

In our broad-ranging discussion, Amanda and Mike share why we’re likely to see more property investment activity next year, how we can improve the attractiveness of Australia for global capital, what’s needed to tackle the current property skills shortage, whether we’re shifting the dial on the current housing crisis, and the inherent challenges and opportunities associated with AI.

It’s the second in a two-part Congress series, with our first episode featuring Simon Kuestenmacher - a prolific and very entertaining commentator on demographic and societal trends. You can find that episode here and check out details for next year’s Congress here.

Simon Kuestenmacher is a leading demographer who ranks as one of the world’s Top 10 influencers in data visualisation, using data to explain how the world works.

In the first in a two-part Talking Property series from the Property Council of Australia’s annual Congress, Simon shares why he thinks the property sector shouldn’t be too pessimistic, why global capital still wants to come to Australia and why migration isn’t going to slow down.

Simon also shares his views on the long-term outlook for interest rates, Australia’s skills shortage and why the major political parties aren’t interested in cheaper housing, despite the rhetoric.

Stay tuned for our second Congress podcast and you can check out details for next year’s Property Council Congress here.

Australia’s emerging build to rent sector remains in the spotlight, with the country’s need for housing having never been stronger.

But it’s been a tough year to get new projects started, amid government policy issues, delivery challenges, high interest rates and a constrained capital

markets environment.

So, what does the future hold? What’s needed to accelerate Australia’s BTR rollout? And what are some of the lessons learnt by Australia’s BTR pioneers.

Find out in our latest Talking Property episode featuring Richard Carmont, the chairman of Arklife and a board member of ADCO, one of Australia’s largest builder-developers. ADCO recently sold recently sold two Brisbane projects to the $256 billion Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and the US-based Hines - the world’s second largest BTR player.

This episode also features insights from the Pacific Head of CBRE’s Living Sectors Capital Markets business, Andrew Purdon.

Residential property prices. They’re a lively source of dinner party conversation, particularly when it comes to the records being toppled across Australia.

Whether it be Atlassian tech billionaire Scott Farquhar pocketing $130 million for his Point Piper estate, Aussie Home Loans founder John Symond chasing over $200 million for his nearby mansion, the Myer family putting a more than $100 million price tag on their Toorak estate, there seems to be no shortage of cash at the top end of the market.

So why has the prestige market been so immune to the slowdown in the wider residential market and stubbornly high interest rates? Where are some of the new hot spots? Why are wealthy Australians eyeing off multi-million dollar apartments on the world’s largest luxury residential yacht? And are there prestige markets that have fallen out of favour.

Find out all the answers in this latest episode of Talking Property featuring Lisa Allen, Editor of The Weekend Australian’s property magazine, Mansion, and CBRE’s NSW Head of Prestige Residential Valuations Bader Naaman.