Incredible build times pulled off with smaller-than-usual work crews have mass timber catching the eye of many in the commercial real estate world.

What is the best route for investors in real estate in 2019? Steady as you go or all change? The outlook for real estate fundamentals globally in 2019 remains generally positive, although the pace of improvement appears to be moderating amidst a slowing global-economic-growth backdrop.

Although build-to-rent residential property is an established real estate asset class in the United Kingdom, continental Europe and the United States — where it is known as multifamily property — it barely exists in Australia. If anything, the Australian property market has been of the opposite persuasion — more like “build-to-sell” — but all that could be about to change.