Meet Our New Member : HPG Australia
Company Name: HPG Australia
Member Rep Name: Adrian Liu, Managing Director
Member Since date: May 2017
What are your core business activities?
HPG Australia is the local arm of an international organisation, with interests in copper mining, agriculture, private education provider and property development. In Australia, the dedicated HPG Australia business is focussed on property, lifestyle and partnership. Putting that vision into practice means, we aim to provide unique lifestyle choices for our homebuyers; partnering in meeting their aspirations for a lifestyle of wellbeing. As part of our desire to engage with communities, we seek to actively partner with culturally relevant organisations which give back to local communities.
What attracted you to the Property Council?
Alignment with industry/opportunity to provide proactive feedback, borrowing from significant international experienced team, and relationship building with key industry stakeholders and counterparts. We look forward to becoming an active, engaged and contributing member to the Property Council and the industry.
What are the issues of importance to your company that the Property Council can work with you on?
Achieving clear, timely and effective transparency about approval processes. The Property Council can help our company strive for and achieve best practice as an ethical and responsible developer. It can help ensure that the relevant voices of the private sector contribute in the right way to the public sector plans for future development.
What do you see as the biggest opportunity for the NSW property industry in the next 12 months?
Opening up the development opportunities to complement infrastructure growth throughout the city and state. Establishing forums and protocols for discussion panels with both the Public and Private Sector (particularly NSW Government) to establish clear standards that are deliverable to combat housing affordability.
What do you see as the biggest challenge for the NSW property industry in the next 12 months?
Ensuring housing affordability becomes a more viable proposition for purchasers, not burdened by levies and government costs which in turn get passed onto ultimately, the homebuyer.
