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The 2024/25 financial year ahead

The 2024/25 financial year ahead

Smart and disciplined developers will certainly survive and thrive providing opportunities for builders and investors. By choosing to limit their exposure to the market and not overstretching their financial capacity, those smart developers will be able to develop,...
View of the current market

View of the current market

From the point of view of current funding options, the sector has seen quite a few new entrants in recent times, some of which struggled out of the gates and lacking in deal flow saw them funding “the best on their desk” and that resulted in some bad loans and a hasty...
2024 Financial year in review

2024 Financial year in review

Not the year that was hoped for but probably more in keeping with what we had projected, which saw many projects breaking even or delivering significantly reduced profits. This reflected the tailing off of those projects impacted by the large increases in raw material...
Construction funding market update

Construction funding market update

There have been a decent handful of new entrants into the development funding space over the last year since we last evaluated the sector so we thought it worthwhile sharing our views and suggestions on how to navigate choosing a lender. Here are some key questions...
Why 2024 could be your best year yet

Why 2024 could be your best year yet

With many of the headwinds of recent years easing, HC sees 2024 as having the potential for being one of the most opportune for quite some time and a chance to build a solid base for a number of years to come. Just in case you had been looking at the glass as half...
Review of Wholesale Investor criteria

Review of Wholesale Investor criteria

You may or may not be aware that there are moves afoot by ASIC and Treasury to try and revise the definition of a “wholesale investor” by adjusting the wealth hurdles by which they are defined.  Based on the preliminary press articles detailing the likely...