Highrise Harry: Convert empty offices into apartments

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With over 70% of office workers signaling that they would like to work from home at least part of the time post pandemic, Meriton founder “Highrise” Harry Triguboff has called on governments to facilitate developers to convert empty office buildings into apartments:

“The value of our city has dropped. We have unusable real estate in the best position. Something has to be done quickly”…

“Because we have devalued the city by having empty offices we must act quickly if we are to use existing offices for apartments”…

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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness. Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.