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    Episode 197: Metricon CEO Brad Duggan shares his views on our housing, skills and interest rate woes and how to fix them
    Episode 197: Metricon CEO Brad Duggan shares his views on our housing, skills and interest rate woes and how to fix them

    After a turbulent year which included fears around the company's future, Metricon’s new CEO Brad Duggan says the outlook is bright for Australia’s biggest home builder.


    Research findings indicate buyers preference for Sydney’s future
    Research findings indicate buyers preference for Sydney’s future

    Research published by the UNSW’s City Futures Research Centre has found that Sydneysiders hold a desire for medium density dwellings throughout the harbour city, providing that it’s done well.


    NSW’s new synthetic turf document on public display
    NSW’s new synthetic turf document on public display

    Community feedback in regards to the use of synthetic turf on NSW playing fields has been invited by the Minns Government as it looks to roll out a state-wide policy that will increase use of outdoor facilities.


    Green signal for Architectus-designed build-to-rent project in Renewal SA’s Bowden precinct
    Green signal for Architectus-designed build-to-rent project in Renewal SA’s Bowden precinct

    A new build-to-rent and mixed-use development in Renewal SA’s Bowden precinct in Adelaide’s inner-north has received planning approval.


    Spencer’s call to ban gas opposed by Master Plumbers
    Spencer’s call to ban gas opposed by Master Plumbers

    A call made by Independent Wentworth MP Allegra Spender to ban gas in new developments across the entire country has been met with backlash by the Master Plumbers Association (MPA) of NSW, who have denounced the claim as a "ridiculous sign of virtue signalling".


    DKO’s Parisian palace: The Lyall Hotel
    DKO’s Parisian palace: The Lyall Hotel

    DKO’s interiors team has delivered a transformed The Lyall Hotel to locals and visitors of South Yarra, which now comprises 49 new refurbished rooms and two large residential suites.


    Can retirement homes help withstand the silver tsunami?
    Can retirement homes help withstand the silver tsunami?

    In the wake of new ABS figures released earlier this week, the Retirement Living Council has urged the Albanese Government to include retirement communities as a key delivery component of achieving the National Housing Accord target.


    Metricon challenges designers to imagine what the housing sector will look like in 2034
    Metricon challenges designers to imagine what the housing sector will look like in 2034

    Australia’s largest homebuilder Metricon held its national conference in Tasmania’s capital Hobart this week, with calls from company heads for its designers to imagine ‘loving where you live for the next 10 years’


    MHNDU and Richards Stanisich-designed penthouse sells at record $13M off-the-plan
    MHNDU and Richards Stanisich-designed penthouse sells at record $13M off-the-plan

    Wirra, a boutique upmarket residential development in the affluent harbourside suburb of Neutral Bay in Sydney is in the news for the record $13 million sale of a luxurious penthouse apartment at the complex.


    CONTEXT’s climate-focussed masterplan for Lismore park
    CONTEXT’s climate-focussed masterplan for Lismore park

    Landscape luminaries CONTEXT’s masterplan for Lismore’s Wade Park has now been officially adopted by local council, which will account for the short and long term future of the park amid climate uncertainty in NSW’s north east.


    Can over-station development fix our housing woes?
    Can over-station development fix our housing woes?

    Bates Smart Managing Director Philip Vivian believes that in order to solve the housing crisis, the public and private sector should combine their collective expertise to create cost-effective, above-station housing precincts in NSW.


    New urban planning exhibition opens with Western Sydney University students
    New urban planning exhibition opens with Western Sydney University students

    The student-designed project interventions for the Mount Druitt thoroughfare will be on exhibition and open to the public until 8 April 2024.


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