The lack of suitable land and lengthy planning approvals are a deterrent for new entrants to the land lease sector – with just 50,000 homes in the pipeline for the next 10 years, operators need to band together and advocate for State and local Government intervention or risk losing ground to retirement villages.

With few developers holding the balance sheets to enter the market, availability of land and hostile Councils are the greatest threat to the growth of Australia’s land lease sector.

In June, the DCM Group and Westpac hosted the latest in its ‘Leading Conver