HOUSING & INVESTMENT
HOUSING · INVESTMENT · GROWTH · DEVELOPMENT
Housing can be complicated. The commercial and investment decisions are where we help. Whether to proceed, what a site is really worth to you, how a project is funded, or what proposals to put to the board/executive; these are all decisions that shape a housing portfolio. We do the analysis behind them for community housing providers, councils and government agencies, and for the developers, investors and family groups building alongside them.
Osta Advisory does the work behind those decisions, supporting what your organisation is actually trying to achieve.
WHAT WE DO
Commercial clarity for complex decisions.
Transactions & Investments
Outcome: the right deal, structured well, done on terms you can defend.
Acquisition and disposal support · capital structuring (debt, equity) · investment management and modelling support · due diligence · transactions and structuring · market sounding
Portfolio & Asset Strategy
Outcome: a pipeline you can defend, resource and take to the board.
Portfolio review · pipeline and growth strategy · options assessments · asset repositioning · business cases · portfolio strategy
Development & Feasibility
Outcome: you know whether it stacks up, and why.
Financial feasibility assessments · scenario, sensitivity and stress testing · market and demographic analysis · feasibility models · development and land assessment · partnering and JV support
Social & Affordable Housing
Outcome: capital matched to need, and a proposal that gets funded.
Social and affordable housing feasibility studies · capital structuring for social, affordable, mixed-tenure and build-to-rent · support for funding applications and grant submissions · delivery and tenure models · HAFF and other programs
TRACK RECORD
Relevant experience.
Housing portfolio acquisition
Assemble
Acquired and structured three projects with 1,000+ dwellings, including capital commitment underwriting.
Strategic land acquisition
Stockland
Acquired a strategic land holding and housing project of 250+ dwellings with broader strategic value.
Mixed-tenure housing investment
Assemble
Managed Investments for a portfolio of projects across Melbourne’s north, west and south.
Bid submission screening
Community housing provider
Implemented a screening tool to assess and rank project submissions to a government funding round.
Social housing financial modelling
Community housing provider
Developed a financial model to assess the commercial outcome for rental projects, and a portfolio consolidation model.
Acquisition commercial advice
Community housing provider
Assessed the long-term commercial viability of a direct property acquisition new to the portfolio.
Housing concept and sounding
NDIS provider
Co-designed and initial market sounding for a disability housing fund.
Client names have been anonymised where the work was undertaken at previous professional services firms
THE DIFFERENCE
This broad perspective is built from deep advisory and valuation experience, backed by owning investment and acquisition outcomes at leading institutional investors, Assemble and Stockland.
Robert is a current board director and sits on a Property and Fundraising Committee. He previously served on the Victorian Board of Advisors of the Property Industry Foundation, where he chaired its Future Leaders Committee.
It means the papers arrive in the form your directors need and the commercial case is built to survive a room where return is not the only test.
HOW WE ENGAGE
Straightforward to work with.
Engagement models
Matched to the shape of the work, be it a fixed fee, retainer or something else.
Responsive senior access
Senior-led throughout and reachable when it matters.
Transparent costs
Disbursements passed through at cost, with nothing material incurred without your written approval.
Clear scope
An engagement letter setting out deliverables, timing and fee before work begins.
Talk it through.
A thirty-minute conversation about the decision in front of you with no obligation, no pitch deck.
Book a call
or email rob@ostaadvisory.com.au
Osta Advisory. Melbourne.
Property decisions your board can back.
PRACTICES
Housing & Investment
Non-Core Property Strategy
FIRM
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