Can Australia's Rental Crisis Get Any Worse? | Kent Lardner, Suburb Help

This is an interesting episode with our resident geek, Kent Lardner as we roll out Suburb Help – a little project we have to help investors make better decisions about where to invest.

Today is all about Australia’s rental crisis: What’s driving up rental prices? Which areas have the highest vacancy rates? Is the same happening in places outside the country?

Tune in to hear all about Kent’s invaluable research data and insights!

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Episode Highlights:

1. What is Suburb Help? [00:56]
2. Are rents really at record highs? [03:44]
3. Rental challenges in regional areas [05:49]
4. Effects of Australia’s rising rental demand [09:26]
5. Rental Crisis: A series of poor decisions [13:46]
6. Build to Rent schemes & Social Housing programs [17:08]
7. Regional areas with the most rental growth [21:05]
8. Which market segment will see the most rent increase? [24:53]
9. Current areas with high vacancy rates [27:48]
10. The problem with Build to Rent schemes [31:06]
11. Income lost due to rent rises [37:11]
12. Is the rental crisis happening in other countries? [39:43]
13. Solving Australia’s rental crisis [41:13]
14. The advantage of having the right data and expert help [44:31]

About our Guest:

Kent Lardner is a data science and business leader with over 30 years experience working for companies such as JLL, CoreLogic and General Electric. He has a passion for digital high growth businesses and has led teams of 5 to 200 people in both Australia and China.

Links from the show:

• Suburb Help Website

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