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Ross Elliott

Ross Elliott is an industry consultant and business advisor, currently working with property economists Macroplan and engineers Calibre, among others.

He has close to 30 years' experience in property and business consulting. His early career included periods in policy and research with a Federal Shadow Minister and as head of research and public affairs for Hillier Parker and the Real Estate Institute, as well as consultant positions with economic and market consultants Plant Location International and Marketshare.

He is possibly better known for his contribution to the Property Council, as Executive Director and later National Chief Operating Officer. He was also inaugural National Executive Director for the Residential Development Council. A prolific writer on urban economics he has a number of publications to his name and is nationally recognised for his ongoing contribution to public policy debate.

His articles have been republished in international forums such as New Geography and locally in The Urban Developer, On Line Opinion, Macrobusiness and Sourceable. Ross has spoken widely at industry conferences in Australia and the US and is currently finalising a chapter for a publication on global trends in suburban development through the MIT Center for Advanced Urbanism (Cambridge MA).

Author's website: Ross Elliott Consulting


 
Rapid population growth - and its consequences
Nation Building - 7/02/2024 - 9 comments
We need to get off this magic roundabout (it's going nowhere)
Nation Building - 6/12/2023 - 11 comments
The government giveth, and the government taketh away
Domestic Politics - 23/11/2023 - 3 comments
The great urban mobility challenge
Nation Building - 12/09/2023 - 11 comments
Population growth: context in a few critical graphs
Nation Building - 9/08/2023 - 18 comments
Do you see what I see? (Many would see an empty office. I see a future classroom)
Nation Building - 4/07/2023 - 4 comments
No Noddy, you and Big Ears won’t solve housing with a tiny house
Nation Building - 14/06/2023 - 14 comments
No, we can’t address affordability by building lots more apartments
Nation Building - 17/05/2023 - 7 comments
Why do we keep falling for the idea that the rate of population growth in Australia is inevitable?
Nation Building - 15/02/2023 - 11 comments
'HOSPO' - the hospitality industry
Economics - 23/01/2023 - 5 comments
Spare a thought for NIMBYs
Nation Building - 8/12/2022 - 3 comments
Where we work defines how we get there (and explains a lot about the public transport challenge)
Nation Building - 20/10/2022 - 4 comments
Is a housing shortage the least of our worries?
Nation Building - 7/09/2022 - 6 comments
One million more cars
Nation Building - 4/08/2022 - 5 comments
Suburbia as we want it. Not how we know it.
Nation Building - 23/05/2022 - 4 comments
A looming schools shortage?
Nation Building - 5/05/2022 - 15 comments
From factory to free-range offices. At a price.
Nation Building - 7/04/2022 - 4 comments
A long term outlook on housing affordability
Nation Building - 27/01/2022 - 7 comments
Eyes wide open: the cost of commuter rail
Nation Building - 17/12/2021 - 7 comments
Populate at peril?
Nation Building - 28/10/2021 - 15 comments
Rail station predictions may not be what they seem
Nation Building - 5/10/2021 - 4 comments
Interstate migration: behind the headlines
Nation Building - 3/09/2021 - 4 comments
Employment in a Covid economy
Economics - 16/08/2021 - 2 comments
The Census clairvoyant: futures told
Economics - 14/07/2021 - 3 comments
How derelict became desirable: renewal lessons for today
Nation Building - 21/05/2021 - 2 comments
Economy thrives while CBDs dive: the argument that CBDs are the engine rooms of the Australian economy is being tested right now
Nation Building - 28/04/2021 - 6 comments
Less 'B' in the CBD?
Economics - 10/03/2021 - 3 comments
The age of suburbia
Nation Building - 5/01/2021 - 5 comments
What are we doing to ourselves?
Society - 21/10/2020 - 15 comments
Is there enough diversity in regional planning?
Nation Building - 23/09/2020 - 3 comments
Learning to live with less
Nation Building - 21/08/2020 - 21 comments
So many levers, why don’t we use them?
Nation Building - 12/08/2020 - 8 comments
Learning from Levittown
Nation Building - 19/06/2020 - 9 comments
Back to the drawing board?
Nation Building - 27/05/2020 - 11 comments
Are Australia's suburbs ready for post COVID-19 opportunities?
Nation Building - 13/05/2020 - 5 comments
Turn and face the strange ch-ch-changes
Nation Building - 7/05/2020 - 5 comments
The China Syndrome 2.0
Health - 31/03/2020 - 31 comments
Studying the wrong cities will lead to repeating their mistakes
Nation Building - 27/02/2020 - 4 comments
The new jobography
Nation Building - 31/01/2020 - 7 comments
Public transport: cheap or expensive?
Nation Building - 10/01/2020 - 21 comments
The density dilemma
Nation Building - 28/11/2019 - 14 comments
Beyond the reach of regulation are accidents - long may they live.
Nation Building - 3/10/2019 - 2 comments
Who needs democracy anyway?
Domestic Politics - 29/07/2019 - 9 comments
Property taxes are about to fall (and why this is bad news)!
Economics - 6/06/2019 - 4 comments
Trouble for the bubble down under
Domestic Politics - 30/05/2019 - 9 comments
Housing: where to now?
Nation Building - 8/05/2019 - 2 comments
This is no silver bullet (train)
Nation Building - 8/04/2019 - 17 comments
Deconstructing the Brisbane CBD
Nation Building - 1/03/2019 - 2 comments
Why suburbs need to be the next frontier for cities policy
Nation Building - 5/02/2019 - 1 comment
Travel by car is getting safer
Society - 9/01/2019 - 12 comments
Where the jobs will be in 2023
Nation Building - 7/12/2018 - 28 comments
Cars and urban mobility
Nation Building - 20/11/2018 - 8 comments
Property taxes are about to fall (and why this is bad news)
Economics - 1/11/2018 - 3 comments
What would low population growth mean for Australia?
Nation Building - 12/10/2018 - 20 comments
How we lit the fuse of the population bomb
Domestic Politics - 8/08/2018 - 8 comments
Why we need more ways to measure CBD health
Nation Building - 12/07/2018 - 8 comments
Net interstate migration to Queensland is on the rise. Does this mean we are about to boom?
Nation Building - 15/06/2018 - 11 comments
Why does Mayor Tom Tait have a problem with Disney?
Economics - 17/05/2018 - 5 comments
Shooting ourselves in the foot?
Economics - 20/11/2017 - 9 comments
A new geography of urban wealth?
Nation Building - 19/10/2017 - 2 comments
Are our universities holding back our education export potential?
Education - 14/09/2017 - 3 comments
Why we need more Springfields
Economics - 31/08/2017 - 8 comments
Is investment attraction an economic distraction?
Economics - 23/08/2017 - 5 comments
Why it's way too early to write off retail
Economics - 19/07/2017 - 4 comments
How the future of work will reshape our cities
Nation Building - 27/06/2017 - 10 comments
Energy and industry
Economics - 26/05/2017 - 26 comments
Does the world need a cure for living longer?
Society - 5/05/2017 - 2 comments
Elon Musk, Tesla, and the science of investment attraction (or not).
Economics - 5/04/2017 - 4 comments
Retirement affordability: a bigger problem than housing affordability?
Society - 22/03/2017 - 51 comments
Cross your fingers on Cross River Rail
Nation Building - 13/03/2017 - 7 comments
Is housing affordability the egg we can’t unscramble?
Nation Building - 10/02/2017 - 24 comments
Pain with trains lies mainly in the brains (or lack of them)
Nation Building - 31/01/2017 - 3 comments
Manufacturing: 'not dead yet'
Economics - 30/11/2016 - 5 comments
What Utah could teach us about affordability, growth and density
Nation Building - 4/11/2016 - 6 comments
What really makes cities liveable?
Nation Building - 26/09/2016 - 4 comments
Peak CBD? Where the urban jobs are going
Nation Building - 17/08/2016 - 6 comments
Mining jobs: not much of a boom and not much of a bust?
Economics - 15/07/2016 - 9 comments
Why urbanisation is mostly a suburban phenomenon
Nation Building - 6/07/2016
Is heritage going too far?
Nation Building - 2/06/2016 - 8 comments
Cars or trains: which will win the commuting future?
Nation Building - 10/05/2016 - 7 comments
Does town planning over promise and under deliver?
Nation Building - 29/03/2016 - 3 comments
We are working less while living longer
Society - 10/03/2016 - 20 comments
Don't mention the war (on negative gearing)
Economics - 26/02/2016 - 30 comments
Some themes for 2016?
Economics - 3/02/2016 - 5 comments
2016 is census year. But why do we bother?
Economics - 1/12/2015 - 29 comments
Contagion
Economics - 10/11/2015 - 12 comments
Public transport’s biggest problem… the public (that’s us)
Nation Building - 4/11/2015 - 6 comments
Old, poor and lonely: the other side of the ageing story
Society - 16/10/2015 - 28 comments
The world in the year 2100
Nation Building - 22/09/2015 - 18 comments
China’s people shortage
International - 9/09/2015 - 1 comment
How the hangover could look now that APRA has shut down the party
Nation Building - 31/07/2015 - 3 comments
Aged care & retirement living: are they immune to market and economic cycles?
Nation Building - 20/07/2015 - 5 comments
Three reasons apartments may not deliver on density
Nation Building - 15/06/2015 - 2 comments
Better suburbs = better cities
Nation Building - 29/05/2015 - 6 comments
Raising the GST could hit new housing hard
Nation Building - 17/04/2015 - 12 comments
Where we live: the case for suburban renewal
Nation Building - 23/03/2015 - 1 comment
High density housing’s biggest myth
Nation Building - 27/02/2015 - 15 comments
Is it time for suburban renewal?
Nation Building - 10/02/2015 - 2 comments
Developers: the real city builders
Nation Building - 5/12/2014 - 6 comments
Australia's housing policy?
Nation Building - 7/11/2014 - 2 comments
Three different office market stories. Same set of data.
Economics - 23/10/2014 - 2 comments
Never mind the bollocks! (Growing old disgracefully)
Society - 11/09/2014 - 9 comments
More than wishin' and hopin' needed
Nation Building - 7/08/2014 - 3 comments
Parking
Nation Building - 9/07/2014 - 11 comments
This can't end well, can it?
Nation Building - 13/06/2014 - 12 comments
What we earn
Economics - 28/05/2014 - 10 comments
In praise of accidental cities
Nation Building - 8/05/2014 - 3 comments
Cattle and cane
Nation Building - 27/03/2014 - 2 comments
Office market drivers
Economics - 3/03/2014
Housing: positive signs but one worrying trend
Economics - 30/01/2014 - 3 comments
Why Canberra should be more involved in housing
Economics - 4/12/2013 - 2 comments
Bubble, bubble, toil and trouble
Economics - 18/10/2013 - 3 comments
Older not wiser
Nation Building - 23/09/2013 - 11 comments
Immigrant nation
Society - 23/08/2013 - 33 comments
First home buyers: the forgotten people
Economics - 20/08/2013 - 1 comment
Infrastructure levies should go
Nation Building - 26/07/2013 - 5 comments
The demography of employment: the commute
Nation Building - 3/06/2013 - 8 comments
The demography of employment part one: a suburban economy
Nation Building - 20/02/2013 - 7 comments
Congestion
Nation Building - 27/11/2012 - 84 comments
It's life Jim, but not as we know it
Economics - 17/10/2012 - 3 comments
Beyond the Queensland budget
Economics - 19/09/2012 - 1 comment
Tourism's long green miles
Economics - 27/08/2012 - 9 comments
Just plain unfair: the taxation of new housing
Nation Building - 24/07/2012 - 8 comments
Out of touch, lost the plot and just plain dangerous
Nation Building - 6/07/2012 - 12 comments
Modern families: fact from fiction
Society - 3/07/2012 - 3 comments
Populate or perish?
Economics - 16/05/2012 - 34 comments
Is growth making a come back?
Domestic Politics - 4/05/2012 - 22 comments
What's wrong with this picture?
Nation Building - 29/03/2012 - 25 comments
Less is more
Nation Building - 9/03/2012
Some New Year resolutions
Nation Building - 30/12/2011 - 13 comments
Time to rethink urban planning and development
Society - 28/11/2011 - 11 comments
Will you still house me, when I’m 64?
Nation Building - 7/11/2011 - 19 comments
Is industrial strife a sign of housing stress?
Economics - 25/10/2011 - 14 comments
This time it's no different
Economics - 7/10/2011 - 3 comments
Waging a green jihad on suburban homes
Environment - 29/08/2011 - 11 comments
Banana-nomics
Economics - 3/08/2011 - 1 comment
An affordability time bomb?
Economics - 21/06/2011 - 19 comments
Tiny [thought] bubbles
Nation Building - 15/04/2011 - 75 comments
Housing bubble? No but, yeah but …
Economics - 2/12/2010
High rise 'in-spansion' and community neighbourhoods
Society - 10/08/2010 - 11 comments
Going underground
Nation Building - 20/07/2010 - 4 comments
Planning’s cultural cringe?
Society - 21/06/2010 - 4 comments
Why is urban sprawl bad?
Nation Building - 25/05/2010 - 22 comments
A new type of climate debate?
May 2010 Feature - 12/05/2010 - 1 comment
Housing, Henry and the new class divide
Domestic Politics - 5/05/2010 - 9 comments
What price a roof over their heads?
November 2009 Feature - 27/11/2009 - 17 comments
Not dead yet!
Society - 10/09/2009 - 1 comment
Planning Never Never Land?
Nation Building - 10/08/2009 - 8 comments
Nation building and a national urban strategy
May 2001 Feature - 15/05/2001
Brisbane is the key to Queensland's growth
Economics - 15/11/2000
Slicker cities for city slickers
October 1999 Feature - 15/10/1999
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