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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.

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.

The retail sector is showing interesting dynamics in Australia’s commercial real estate sector, with a growing investment appetite for the asset class, according to Benjamin Martin-Henry, Head of Private Asset Research Pacific at MSCI.

Australian commercial real estate markets are showing signs of positive change, according to Benjamin Martin-Henry, Head of Private Asset Research Pacific at MSCI.

ASIC publishes insights from Reportable Situations Regime

Greg Preston and Benjamin Martin-Henry discuss the current state-of-play in property, at a time where the greatest certainty is change.

The wholesale investor test thresholds will remain unchanged, after the parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services (PJC) issued its report on the wholesale investor test inquiry, which commenced in March 2024.

Nominations are now open for the PFA Innovation in Sustainability Award which acknowledges Property Funds that have implemented groundbreaking and inventive approaches toward environmental sustainability within their real estate holdings.

ASIC’s focus on private credit is a key theme for 2025 as the regulator reviews private markets with an eye to ‘improving transparency’. Part of this sharper focus on private credit lending includes issuing notices to retail private credit managers.

ASIC 2025 enforcement priorities – new focus on ‘unscrupulous’ property investment schemes:

ASIC has placed what it calls ‘unscrupulous property investment schemes’ firmly in its sights as parts of its enforcement priorities for 2025.

Unlisted property fund managers should heed ASIC’s two recent wins in enforcing DDO, and take the opportunity to review their compliance with the regime, according to Charlie Renney, Senior Associate at Hall & Wilcox Lawyers.

Sam Sproats is an Executive Director Funds Management, for Growthpoint Properties Australia, an ASX-listed Real Estate Investment Trust which invests in high quality industrial and office properties across Australia. Sam has more than 28 years of experience in real estate funds management, and currently leads Growthpoint’s funds management business.