In the media
For all the research we do, the analyses we perform and the unique insights and perspectives we share, Direct Collective has been recognised by many media outlets as a great source of information on all things property, the changing market conditions, the opportunities and the challenges.
2023
- Sunshine Coast News – Your say: live music, Halls Creek development area, homelessness action plan and more
- A Current Affair – Council evicts vulnerable group from property amidst housing crisis
- A Current Affair – Council plans to boot residents during housing crisis
- Sunshine Coast News – Your say: tiny homes, airport delays and more
- Sunshine Coast News – Tiny home resident facing eviction speaks out as council grapples with housing crisis
- The US Sun – We live in tiny home community but are facing conviction over by-laws “that don’t fit reality” – clock is ticking
- Noosa Today – Key role investors play in rental crisis
- Sunshine Coast News – They’re actually selling and getting out of the market: Why property investors are leaving
- Yahoo News – Families to be evicted after neighbours complaints to council: “Disgraceful”
- Gympie Today – Podcast says Government won’t meet housing demand
- Sunshine Coast Magazine – The fight people are facing to avoid living in their cars
- Sunshine Coast News – This isn’t living: renters speak out over crisis
- Noosa Today – Renters continue to battle soaring prices on the Sunshine Coast
- Sunshine Coast Magazine – Latest property report paints bleak future for renters on the Sunshine Coast
- Sunshine Coast Daily – Property firm warns of homelssness crisis on Sunshine Coast
- 7 News Sunshine Coast – SCPMU 2023 release
- Sunshine Coast News – SCPMU 2023: Expert warns of “shanty towns” emerging on Sunshine Coast amid rental crisis
- My Weekly Preview – Unlocking the keys to fixing the crisis
- Sunshine Coast News – Experts weigh in on what a rental price freeze would mean for the region
- Sunshine Coast Magazine – Local School Communities Facing Harsh Reality Of Coast Homelessness
- 7 News Sunshine Coast – Noosa Council will write to the owners of thousands of vacant properties
- Sunshine Coast News – Addressing the crisis: how Coast council plans to provide more affordable housing
- 7 News Sunshine Coast – Regional Queensland expecting a major population boom
2022
- Noosa Today – Sleepbus provides more than 400 safe sleeps
- ABC Sunshine Coast – Sunshine Coast tourism operators get an early Christmas present as waves of tourists arrive
- Sunshine Coast Magazine – Harrowing Truths About Homeless Youth Being Exploited On The Coast
- Sunshine Coast News – Charity reveals: ‘youths exploited for a roof over their heads’ amid escalating housing crisis
- Sunshine Coast News – All Sunshine Coast under rental stress,’ says Rental Affordability Index (Homes for Everyone Podcast Ep2)
- Sunshine Coast News – Property mogul predicted housing crisis in one area, bemoans ‘lack’ of green space in another
- Sunshine Coast News – Top chef and developers join forces to fix employment and housing issues
- Sunshine Coast News – Family of five’s couch-surfing hell: rental crisis takes toll
- Sunshine Coast News – Ground-breaking: sod turning marks resort development milestone
- Sunshine Coast News – Could a designated car park be one solution to homelessness on the Coast?
- Sunshine Coast News – Warning issued after illegal camper trashes site and leaves rubbish behind
- Noosa Today – New podcast highlights housing crisis
- Queensland Property Investor – Coast builder’s modular homes emerging as housing crisis solution
- My Weekly Preview – Podcast highlights fickle state of rental market
- 7 News Sunshine Coast – A new podcast launched on the Coast is sharing horror stories from residents squeezed out of the rental market.
- Sunshine Coast News – Housing crisis: Expert urges community to join action for change
- Australian Property Investor – Three decades of property trends dispel myths, offer hints of the future
- 7 News Sunshine Coast – Migration to regional Queensland still booming
- Sunshine Coast News – Housing crisis could lead to shortage of teachers on the Sunshine Coast
- Sunshine Coast News – 14,000 people displaced: the human impact of Sunshine Coast rental crisis revealed
- 7 News Sunshine Coast – Sunshine Coast’s tough rental market could deter top teachers
- 7 News Sunshine Coast – HEUS Initiative launch
- Sunshine Coast News – Push to build Olympic Games village now as a solution to Coast housing crisis
- My Weekly Preview (P.44) – The facts about doom and gloom reports
- My Weekly Preview – The facts about doom and gloom reports
- ABC Sunshine Coast – Sunshine Coast’s real estate boom comes to end as prices fall for first time in three years
- My Weekly Preview (P.41) – Time for a change of housing policies
- Australian Property Investor – Migration is part of a complex chess game in construction, housing
- My Weekly Preview – Demand outweighs supply
- Sunshine Coast News – ‘Never seen this’: expert uncovers shock workforce exodus despite population surge
- Sunshine Coast News – What it will take to secure the most prized beachside block on Australia’s eastern seaboard
- WIN News Sunshine Coast – Property Latest with Bernard Salt
- 7 News Sunshine Coast – Leading demographer Bernard Salt has warned the region is at risk
- WIN News Sunshine Coast – Sunshine Coast Property Market Update
- 7 News Sunshine Coast – Sunshine Coast is on track to become Australia’s leading property market
- Australian Property Investor – It’s all sun and Games for Sunshine Coast
- Sunshine Coast News – Rates are set to climb over the next 12 months, but what will happen to Coast house prices?
- Sunshine Coast News – Sunshine Coast population projections undershoot by ‘an entire Aura’: report
- My Weekly Preview (P.42) – Changes to super may lead to property market lift
2021
- My Weekly Preview: My Suburb Profile (P.4) – The Sunshine Coast; The Future Ebook
- My Weekly Preview (P.14) – 2041 – The future looks good
- Sunshine Coast News – Growth corridor to help house tens of thousands of arrivals, but expert warns of ‘walled-in effect’
- Savings.com.au – How hard is it to buy your first house right now?
- Sunshine Coast News – Aroona to Woombye: the Sunshine Coast’s new million-dollar suburbs
- Sunshine Coast News – Sunshine Coast 2041: from retirement haven to nation’s most futuristic ‘city’
- Sunshine Coast News – Coast will have to ‘rethink traditional housing’ as population explodes, expert warns
- Sunshine Coast News – The unique circumstances that have put us in the firing line for a history-making growth spurt
- Sunshine Coast News – The Sunshine Coast has ‘no option’ but to build more apartments and townhouses
- Sunshine Coast News – Buddina house sells for $4million — a record for Sunshine Coast’s eastern beachfront strip
- Urban Developer – Pressure Mounts on Sunshine Coast Land Supply
- Urban Developer – Sunshine Coast Needs New Suburb Every Year to Meet Demand
2020
- Urban Developer – International Subsea Cable a ‘Game Changer’ for Maroochydore CBD
- Sunshine Coast News – The Coast property market is the hottest in Australia, but should you sell your home?
- Sunshine Coast Daily – How the Sunshine Coast could look in 2033
- Courier Mail – Why your weeks’ rental payment just spiked
- My Weekly Preview – Crazy demand for property
- Sunshine Coast News – OUR GOLDEN SANDS: Sunshine Coast property prices surging to a ‘new high tide’
- The Urban Developer – Australia’s Top 10 Regional Property Hotspots
