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.
Transit Oriented Development: a little less conversation a little more action, please?
Nation Building - 30/10/2024 - 3 comments |
The housing fix we actually CAN do something about
Nation Building - 2/08/2024 - 10 comments |
Is the Premier reading my stuff?
Nation Building - 24/05/2024 - 7 comments |
Supermarkets, shopping centres and the weaponisation of planning
Nation Building - 26/04/2024 - 6 comments |
The density dividend: smaller, worse, slower, less?
Nation Building - 10/04/2024 - 4 comments |
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 |
