Dwayne Kavanagh’s Post

Even the most respectable news institutions have run out of formal descriptors for the Australian property market and are just calling it what it is: insane. 🏠🤪 Spiralling prices are pushing people into parents’ homes, house shares, and even tents. Extending or self-building is an alternative for those who can afford it. But most people are as daunted by the regulations as the build itself. To have a hope in hell of bringing down Wild West property prices, Australia needs houses, terraces and apartment complexes. But they all have to go through development applications which take months and provide no guarantees. Wading through thousands of regs can ground projects before ground is even broken. But… we have AI now… And, more specifically, Rules as Code and language models that translate legalese into legible text 📜 ➡️💬 Leveraging that tech is PropCode - a smart regulatory engine that translates arcane planning legislation into an accurate and transparent analysis of what you can and can’t do to a house or plot of land. The platform lets you search any residential address and reports every regulation relevant to that address. It’s currently being piloted in NSW but will roll out Aussie-wide soon. Today we’re delighted to welcome founders Will Sullivan and Jonah Turnquist to the Skalata portfolio 👋  And we're stoked to be joining our mates at Antler and Brisbane Angels in this round 💛 Three direct blockers to increasing Australian housing supply are: under-resourced councils, limiting government policies, and good old-fashioned bureaucracy. PropCode has a hand on all these levers. 🎚️ More about why we invested via link in the comments 👇

https://lnkd.in/gDuUS5E6 Developers and the State Planning Commission should take note of this approach. Perhaps let’s use this as a way forward for the GARP. Councils in SA should have a far greater say in how their neighbourhoods should be developed

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The most-read story from the previous week's Developer's Digest®, published by Bisnow, reports that New York City Council recently passed a law establishing housing goals for neighborhoods, lacking specific enforcement measures. The legislation aims to address housing disparities by setting targets for affordable housing development in different areas. Concerns arise regarding the absence of enforcement mechanisms to ensure compliance, emphasizing the potential impact on developers, community boards, and the broader real estate landscape. As the city strives to enhance housing affordability, the effectiveness of this law may hinge on future regulatory measures and collaborative efforts between stakeholders in the real estate sector. To read more stories like this and to stay on top of the most recent news from the development world, subscribe to our Developer’s Digest® using the link below: https://bit.ly/3Qg1qXV #digest #dsa #nyc #NYCHousingGoals #AffordableHousingNYC #EnforceHousingEquity #NYCRealEstateImpact #CollaborativeHousingSolutions

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We are 👏🏾 Done 👏🏾 Playing 👏🏾 Nice 👏🏾 when developers are using their money, power and influence to push from all sides and negate our grassrots movement for affordable housing in the urban service area. If you like transportation options like trains, trollies, frequent buses and even pedestrian safety infrastructure then we need funding to be invested in the urban core of our community. We can achieve this by making it harder and more expensive for developers to sprawl to the furthest reaches of our county and incentivize infill projects. . Currently, developers want to mass grade (completely level) our forests down to sugar-sand because it is cheaper to destroy rural land than invest in infill projects where empty plazas already exists because the state is not forcing developers to pay their full share. Thats because developers like Scott Boyd, who made the mistake of showing up in opposition to the rural boundary, pay lobbyists to do their bidding during legislative session and behind the scenes at the local level, pressuring elected and appointed officials. This is not a DEMOCRACY if we don’t hold them accountable. They will stop at nothing to sway the charter review process which SHOULD be a citizen-driven community process to get items on the upcoming ballot. But instead, the CRC Board received emails and a memo from a law firm pressuring them to not pass a rural boundary late in the evening on Friday before the May 20th vote. That is WRONG! . WE MUST CALL THEM OUT!!! . What you can do: Email your support for the rural boundary by emailing: District1@ocfl.net District2@ocfl.net District3@ocfl.net District4@ocfl.net District5@ocfl.net District6@ocfl.net Mayor@ocfl.net Charter2024@OCCOMPT.com

With the recent announcement from Rachel Reeves on Labour's plan "to accelerate stalled housing sites in our country" and get "Britain building again", there has never been a better time to get LAND. An easy-to-use app, LAND that can instantly identify any issues a piece of land might have. With historical mapping, artificial deposits, landfill and mining layers, issues can be highlighted instantly. A tool like LAND is vital when there are hopes to: 🏠 Restore mandatory housebuilding targets. 🏠 Build 1.5m homes by the end of this parliament - including affordable & council homes. 🏠 Accelerate stalled housing sites with a new task force. 🏠 Review planning applications previously turned down that could help the economy. Try it today with a FREE 15-day trial 👉 bit.ly/3GKtk9W #LANDapp #LandDevelopment #SiteAssessment #UKHousing #EmergingTech

It’s now been three months since we first heard of the various NSW planning #reforms, and people still have a lot of questions! The most important question is: which of the reforms are actually going to happen? Unfortunately this is the hardest one to answer because of the political dynamics. How committed is the #NSW Govt to what they have proposed? How hard will they push through negative responses? It is truly anyone’s guess. The TOD SEPP (Part 2) affecting a 400m radius from 31 stations seems to be the most certain, as the Department of #Planning has said it will take effect next month. With PropCode’s database, I estimated this could create theoretical capacity for up to 137,000 dwellings. However I still don’t regard this as 100% certain. I can imagine last minute changes or delays happening. The TOD Program (Part 1) affecting a 1200m radius from 8 stations is much more vague and will definitely take longer as it is a state-led master-planning process. Although the Department says this is meant to be finalised within 2024, there is no telling what the actual timeline might end up being or what the quantum of uplift will be. The Diverse and Well Located Homes proposal, potentially touching most #residential properties near any station or centre, is the heaviest of the reforms. It’s caused headlines like “Entire Inner West LGA to become 6 storey apartments” (which is not really true because heritage rules will still matter). My analysis with PropCode’s database found new capacity of over a MILLION #dwellings under this reform alone. I suspect this one will be scaled back significantly before it becomes final, if it ever does. In the meantime, the 2nd most important question is: what do the proposed reforms mean for a specific #property? Depending on your appetite to check maps, look up Local Environmental Plans, or read Explanations of Intended Effect, you may feel confident or overwhelmed trying to answer this one. But thanks to all the analysis I’ve already done with PropCode, we can give you an instant answer. And for a limited time, we are happy to show you a free glimpse of what our platform is capable of! Just enter your property of interest here (https://lnkd.in/gPreXgJS) and you’ll get an email summary immediately, detailing what the reforms mean on that site. PropCode is going to do big things for #urbanplanning technology in 2024 and we hope you’ll follow our journey to transform the property industry!

With the recent announcement from Rachel Reeves on Labour's plan "to accelerate stalled housing sites in our country" and get "Britain building again", there has never been a better time to get LAND. An easy-to-use app, LAND that can instantly identify any issues a piece of land might have. With historical mapping, artificial deposits, landfill and mining layers, issues can be highlighted instantly. A tool like LAND is vital when there are hopes to: 🏠 Restore mandatory housebuilding targets. 🏠 Build 1.5m homes by the end of this parliament - including affordable & council homes. 🏠 Accelerate stalled housing sites with a new task force. 🏠 Review planning applications previously turned down that could help the economy. Try it today with a FREE 15-day trial 👉 bit.ly/3GKtk9W #LANDapp #LandDevelopment #SiteAssessment #UKHousing #EmergingTech

We are 👏🏾 Done 👏🏾 Playing 👏🏾 Nice 👏🏾 when developers are using their money, power and influence to push from all sides and negate our grassrots movement for affordable housing in the urban service area. If you like transportation options like trains, trollies, frequent buses and even pedestrian safety infrastructure then we need funding to be invested in the urban core of our community. We can achieve this by making it harder and more expensive for developers to sprawl to the furthest reaches of our county and incentivize infill projects. . Currently, developers want to mass grade (completely level) our forests down to sugar-sand because it is cheaper to destroy rural land than invest in infill projects where empty plazas already exists because the state is not forcing developers to pay their full share. Thats because developers like Scott Boyd, who made the mistake of showing up in opposition to the rural boundary, pay lobbyists to do their bidding during legislative session and behind the scenes at the local level, pressuring elected and appointed officials. This is not a DEMOCRACY if we don’t hold them accountable. They will stop at nothing to sway the charter review process which SHOULD be a citizen-driven community process to get items on the upcoming ballot. But instead, the CRC Board received emails and a memo from a law firm pressuring them to not pass a rural boundary late in the evening on Friday before the May 20th vote. That is WRONG! . WE MUST CALL THEM OUT!!! . What you can do: Email your support for the rural boundary by emailing: District1@ocfl.net District2@ocfl.net District3@ocfl.net District4@ocfl.net District5@ocfl.net District6@ocfl.net Mayor@ocfl.net Charter2024@OCCOMPT.com