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Optimising value is high stakes for commercial real estate investment, with potential to improve the level and resilience of returns, enhance reputations, and protect against market shocks, according to Linda Rudd, CEO of property fund manager, Realside.

Ms Rudd presented on the key principles to optimising value in real estate investing at the Property Funds Association of Australia (PFA) Master Class series.

ASIC has released its report, Private Credit in Australia (REP 814), into Australia’s $200 billion private credit sector. The report follows extensive surveillance of wholesale and retail private credit funds.

ASIC acknowledges that “Private credit, done well, has a valuable role to play in the Australian economy”.

Taxing unrealised gains could create a cash flow ‘mismatch’ for longer-term, illiquid investments including unlisted property, according to the peak body for the unlisted property funds industry in Australia, Property Funds Association of Australia (PFA).

The introduction of the new tax on unrealised capital gains for superannuation balances exceeding $3 million is widely anticipated as part of the Treasury Laws Amendment (Better Targeted Superannuation Concessions) Bill 2023, set to take effect on July 1, 2025 (while the tax is proposed to commence from 1 July 2025, it is not yet law).

ASIC review of compliance plans identified widespread poor practice

ASIC reviewed and compared the compliance plans of 50 responsible entities (REs), and identified what it considered to be widespread poor practice.

Investment flows into Australian commercial real estate are likely to be dominated by the USA and Japan in 2025, with Singapore also becoming a more important regional player. That’s according to Andrew Cannane, senior executive director and head of Real Estate, Asia Pacific at CSC.

Property Funds Association of Australia (PFA) recently made a submission to ASIC regarding its Consultation Paper 383: Reportable situations and internal dispute resolution data publication (CP 383), which proposes increasing the visibility of breach and complaints data for managed funds.

Gregory Preston AM, Chairman and Managing Director of leading commercial real estate valuers and consultants, Preston Rowe Paterson, has been announced as the new President of Property Funds Association of Australia (PFA).

The Property Funds Association of Australia (PFA) recently made a submission to ASIC’s private markets discussion paper, and made the argument against greater regulation of private markets in Australia.

The PFA’s Issues and Regulatory Committee (IRC) recently met with the financial regulator, ASIC, to discuss the latest regulatory issues impacting unlisted property funds.

This is part of a regular meeting PFA has with the regulator, and we always appreciate ASIC making the time to engage with PFA.

The property investment industry has a major role to play in creating more sustainable cities, with the value and longevity of property assets increasingly linked to their environmental footprint, according to Bruce Precious, Principal Consultant at Six Capitals Consulting, who spoke about sustainable cities at the PFA 2025 Conference on the Gold Coast.

AI is playing a bigger role in areas like investor communications, compliance processes, property management and more for unlisted property funds. But whether AI delivers on its promise depends not just on tools but mindset, according to a recent industry panel discussion on AI as part of the PFA 2025 Conference held on the Gold Coast.

Women are forecast to control 65% of Australia’s wealth by 2035 and financial services firms who are not talking to women are leaving money on the table, according to Natalie Irvine, Chief Sales & Marketing Officer at non-bank lender, RedZed, who was speaking at the PFA 2025 Conference on the Gold Coast.