If you take a Specialist Disability Accommodation contract to your solicitor, expect questions. In some cases, expect caution. That is not a bad sign. It is a solicitor doing exactly what you engaged them to do: examine an unfamiliar asset class carefully and make sure you understand what you are signing. The right response is...Read More

It is one of the most common hesitations we hear from buyers looking at existing Specialist Disability Accommodation dwellings: the property comes with a one year lease, and a single year of contracted income feels short for an asset you intend to hold for a decade or more. The concern is understandable. It is also...Read More

There is a friction point in Specialist Disability Accommodation delivery that almost no investor hears about until it delays their project: NDIS assessors and building surveyors are two separate approval processes, and they do not automatically agree with each other. When they align, a build moves. When they do not, it stalls. Understanding why is...Read More

Investors are asking this question, and they should be. The honest answer is that the scheme is in a period of review and reform, that this creates genuine uncertainty, and that buyer activity has continued through it. All three of those things are true at once. Here is what is worth understanding. Why the Question...Read More

A fully occupied Specialist Disability Accommodation dwelling is one where every place designed for a participant is filled by an eligible participant with SDA funding in place. It matters because occupancy is what turns an SDA dwelling from a building into an income producing asset. Occupancy Equals Income In SDA, the income is attached to...Read More

Something we have noticed consistently in recent enquiry: buyers based in New South Wales are among the most active and the most decisive in the Victorian Specialist Disability Accommodation market. That is our own observation of who is calling and who is transacting, not a published statistic. But it is consistent enough to be worth...Read More

Most content about Specialist Disability Accommodation is written for buyers. Very little is written for the investor who already owns one and is starting to think about the exit. That is the harder question, and it has three parts: what the asset is worth, when to sell, and what you do with the proceeds. What...Read More

Because a tenanted dwelling is generally priced on the income it produces rather than on what it cost to build. Once an SDA property has participants in it and is earning, buyers value it the way they value any income producing asset: by the return they get on the price they pay. The Short Version...Read More

Investors regularly ask why a tenanted Specialist Disability Accommodation dwelling carries a higher price than the cost of building the same thing new. It looks like a premium for nothing. It is not. The answer is that you are buying two different things. One is a construction project. The other is an income stream that...Read More

Specialist Disability Accommodation produces income differently to a standard rental property, and that difference is the whole reason investors look at it. This article walks through the mechanics with a worked example, so you can see where the return actually comes from. The Income Model in One Paragraph An ordinary rental property earns one rent...Read More