There’s some good news and some possibly calamitous bad news in this week’s podcast.

Firstly, the number of apartment building approvals was up by more than 50 per cent in December, month on month.

Then a major league developer has told state governments they need to make much more of an effort on affordable and build-to-rent apartments.

But all of that is in the future.  Right now, tens of thousands of Chinese university students have been told they need to get back to in-person tuition.

That means an incoming surge of students, all of whom need to be housed somewhere in a market that’s already collapsing under the strain of massive demand and critically low availability.

Does this mean we’re heading back to overcrowded apartments and slumlord head tenants renting apartments then cramming them with overseas students? 

That’s all in this week’s Flat Chat Wrap.

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Recorded by Jimmy Thomson & Sue Williams; Transcribed by Otter.ai.
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