Build-to-rent, a solution for NZ housing crisis?

Build-to-rent, a solution for NZ housing crisis?
Brent Melville
Kiwis may have a love affair with property ownership, but New Zealand could take a major step towards solving its housing crisis by providing an investment climate supporting the institutional development of build-to-rent developments on a grand scale.Paul Winstanley, senior director of alternative investments with real estate and investment management group JLL, said the concept, which is well advanced in economies such as the US, Germany, Japan and UK, is attractive because it brings high quality, well designed and purpose-built products supp...

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