ABOUT KEVIN

I know how this country builds

I started selling real estate in 1979. I spent nearly four decades with LJ Hooker, fourteen of those years in LJ Hooker Land Marketing, and I’ve consulted to more than 100 developers, including Mirvac, Stockland, Delfin, Peet, Multiplex and the Pradella Group.

I’ve worked with the Queensland Government, Brisbane City Council, the Commonwealth Government, the Minister for Housing, ANZ Bank, Esanda Finance, James Hardie, Colorbond, the Supercheap group and the Hyatt Regency.

I know what gets built, why it gets built, and why it stopped working for ordinary Australians.

So I built the alternative

We kept building four bedrooms for a nation of one- and two-person households. I built the answer instead.

The first Smarter Small Home was built in a shed in 2009, and 5,000 industry professionals came to walk through it. James Hardie published the results.

Since then I’ve delivered more than 200 homes on the same thinking, for everyday investors who want a home that works as hard as they do.

I call it "Smarter Smaller".

Why I’m still doing this

Because the fix exists, and the country still isn’t using it.

I founded the Future Housing Taskforce in 2009 to put that fix in front of the people who can build it: governments, developers, lenders and everyday investors.

It’s OK to be the best, but you have to prove it. Everyone else will show you the yield. We’ll show you the paperwork.

Credentials

• Founder & CEO, Future Housing Taskforce (since 2009)
• Fellow, Urban Development Institute of Australia
• Fellow, Real Estate Institute of Australia
• 180+ property industry awards, 1979–2019
• Creator of Smarter Smaller™
• Front page, The Courier Mail,  2009
• James Hardie, The Smarter Small Home™ Case Book

If you’re building, investing or setting housing policy, let’s talk. Call 1800 10 1000.