CEO and Founder of HOPE Housing, Tim Buskens, sat down with Cassandra Baldini from the Financial Standard Podcast, to discuss how shared equity is establishing itself as a viable solution to the home ownership affordability crisis, and has the potential to deliver stronger social and financial outcomes when compared to Build To Rent programs (BTR).
In this episode, you’ll learn more about:
- How the founders of HOPE Housing leveraged their expertise in private equity and fund structuring to design a shared equity model that could meet the needs of Australian homeowners and institutional investors
- The viability of BTR in the Australian market and the pivot offshore investors are starting to make away from BTR and towards co-investment and shared equity models
- The need for superannuation funds to look at the housing affordability challenge through a supply and financing lens, to ensure Australians still have an opportunity to build retirement wealth and stablity.