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LIVE PROUD MAGAZINE SUMMER EDITION

The Aussie backyard

The great inward migration & the new shift to shared backyards

The new move to make buildings green The future is now

Architecture that makes us happy Inside the mind of a master community planner Plus

Alfresco summer essentials & a white Christmas escape

Up front CONTENTS

Summer

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3 Market insight 4 – 7 Live proud - Bringing our belief to life Property 8 – 9 The Aussie backyard - like never before 10 – 13 The new frontier of apartment living Lifestyle 14 – 17

All you have to do is move

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Escape to a white Christmas

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Alfresco essentials for this summer

22 – 23 Living proud at Life, Point Cook Community 25 How to choose the right community for you 26 – 28 Discover Sydney’s hidden gem 29 Community events 30 – 32 Inside the mind of a master community planner Sustainability 33 – 35

Architecture that makes us happy

36 – 37 The new move to make buildings green News 38 – 39

2018: A year of milestones

Cover image Danielle & Ava, Life, Point Cook, VIC

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4–7 Live proud - Bringing our belief to life

8–9 The Aussie backyard - like never before 10 – 13 The new frontier of apartment living

14 – 17 All you have to do is move

26 – 28 Discover Sydney’s hidden gem

33 – 35 Architecture that makes us happy

Please note that while reasonable care is taken to ensure the contents of this magazine is correct, all information is to be used as a guide only. Images are conceptual only. Purchasers must rely on their own enquiries and the contract for sale.

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Up front MARKET INSIGHT

A few proud words

You probably saw in the news recently that Australia’s population is now more than 25 million. Every 83 seconds another new Australian calls this magnificent country home, making our growth rate well above the global average. While Australia’s surging population growth helps underpin a robust property market, it also means that we have to plan carefully how we house everyone. The hard fact is that the quarter acre block in a capital city is no longer a practical or affordable option for most people.

That’s why, at Frasers Property Australia, we’re focused on creating homes and communities that cater for a broad range of people - from first home buyers, to expanding families, to downsizers - with the highest levels of liveability and amenity. In practical terms this means designing and delivering quality housing options, shared open spaces and parks, town centres, community spaces and transport links.

In short, places that work for the people that live there. Places they can be proud of calling home.

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AFTER 94 YEARS OF CREATING HOMES FOR AUSTRALIANS, WE LOVE TO SEE THE EXCITEMENT AND ANTICIPATION THAT COMES FROM BUYING PROPERTY AND FULFILLING A HARD-WORKEDFOR DREAM.

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delivered to meet the needs of our city’s growing populations. This coordination can be complex but its success means that people can set down roots in healthy, happy communities. This, in a nutshell, drives everything we do.

Even after 94 years of creating homes for Australians, we love to see the excitement and anticipation that comes from buying property and fulfilling a hard-worked-for dream. That’s why we say: live proud. You’ve earned it.

Anthony Boyd Executive General Manager – Residential, Frasers Property Australia

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In Spring 2018, the new Frasers Property Live proud campaign hit TV, cinema screens, billboards and websites across the country. Highlighting those quiet moments of achievement that homebuyers experience when the dream they’ve worked towards finally becomes reality, Live proud tells the human stories behind the property journey.

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e asked Anthony Boyd, Executive General Manager of Frasers Property’s Residential group, and Emily Wood, General Manager of National Marketing, how the campaign came about and what Live proud means to them personally:

Emily Wood, General Manager – National Marketing

Anthony Boyd, Executive General Manager – Residential

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So, where did the idea for Live proud come from?

Emily: Live proud is the culmination of a lot of work over the last few years as we aligned the Frasers Property business as closely as possible to the needs of our customers. This started with really understanding what it is that drives and motivates them.

Essentially, it all boils down to feeling confident and proud that the decisions you’ve made and the hard work you’ve put into life is paying off.

IT’S LED US TO REDEFINE THE WAY WE THINK ABOUT DESIGN QUALITY, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND THE WELLBEING OF OUR CUSTOMERS.

Anthony: Creating communities and homes that allow people to build a life they can be proud of is a huge responsibility for all of us here at Frasers Property, and also Anthony: Buying a home is the a great opportunity we don’t take biggest purchase decision most people make in their lives, and it’s for granted. It’s led us to redefine the way we think about design a decision you live with for years. quality, community development Even with all the pressures and stresses of everyday life, work, and and the wellbeing of our customers. paying a mortgage, you want to feel I strongly believe that every when you drive home at night, the person in our business has the decision you’ve made has been the ability to influence our customers’ experience and my role is to remind right one. them that they have the autonomy In what way does the Live and authority to design and proud ethos motivate what build better houses, apartments, communities and experiences for you do in your roles? our customers.

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Emily: I feel lucky and privileged that I work in a role where each day I’m helping to shape the way people will live. My role is to champion the voice of our customer and ensure we’re delivering elements that are important and meaningful to them. Personally I find this very motivating and there is nothing more rewarding than seeing a new project come to life and watching customers put down roots and celebrate their new home.

important to the community.

Anthony: There are so many examples in the communities we build, from the friendships formed among neighbours through our Live Life Get Active classes, to the pride people experience sharing the produce they’ve grown in one of the community gardens, to the fundraisers that residents put on for local organisations that are

Why is recognising people’s sense of achievement in owning a property so important these days?

Emily: Gardner Joe is probably one of my favourites. Joe and his family moved into Baldivis Grove in 2016. He enquired about a potential area that he could use to cultivate a vegetable garden and while there was no space free at the time, the team kept an eye open. When something became available they jumped at it, helped to fence the site, serviced it with irrigation and decked it out with a Can you give us an example sea container. Today Joe 2and the community have a 450m site in a of residents ‘living proud’ prime location at the estate entry. on Frasers Property The best part is it’s now a thriving projects? What does this little community group that’s even been incorporated the ‘Baldivis actually look like in an Community Garden Group’. everyday sense?

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Emily: Buying a property is one of the biggest moments and milestones in a person’s life and it’s not easy! So we think it’s important to acknowledge that - as often it

Danielle and Ava from Life, Point Cook, VIC

comes with a great deal of hard work and sacrifice. There will always be rational factors that are important when buying a property - price, location, inclusions - but that sense of achievement and pride and knowing you’ve done ok... that’s what we believe deserves celebration.

Anthony: We’re talking about one of the most emotional and lifechanging decisions people can make. It can be challenging and difficult and it represents a huge amount of hard work, dedication and sacrifice. But more often than not, it’s hugely rewarding.

At Frasers, we think that the place people choose to call home actually says a lot about who they are and what they’ve achieved in life. We believe our success as a business will be defined by our customers experiencing pride in their home and their community, knowing that their decision has allowed them to provide a better life for the people they love.

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LIKE NEVER BEFORE

PROPERTY THE AUSSIE BACKYARD LIKE NEVER BEFORE

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n the prosperous decades following the Second World War, a Great Australian Dream took hold in the nation’s collective consciousness. It meant a home of your own on a quarter acre block and a brand new car in the driveway. The dream became a reality for millions of Australians as capital cities across the country swelled with new people and the homes they built to live in. But it wasn’t all good news.

Large homes on large blocks meant constant outward pressure on the urban fringe, pushing Australia’s cities to become among the largest and least densely settled in the world.

The twin penalties of rising infrastructure costs and skyrocketing land prices dramatically reshaped the housing market, ushering in an era of smarter, denser, less car-dependant developments with better access to local services and shared public spaces.

Like all things in life, the Great Australian Dream has evolved. Today, the dream is less about the big house and the quarter acre block and more about the culture, lifestyle, and strong sense of community that comes with living in social urban villages.

Barrie Seppings, Director of Creative Strategy at real estate branding agency WordSearch Australia, says that this evolution is long

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past due and for too long Australians have been overcapitalising in underperforming homes. “Media reports are rife with stories of generations of people who’ll never own a home. But we’ve kind of done that to ourselves because we’ve made our homes too big, too expensive, too unwieldy. They’re hard to maintain. Hard to get to. Hard to live in,” says Seppings. “When you look at a home as a machine for living, this ‘bigger-is-better’ approach has failed us.”

Simone Dyer, Deputy Development Director of Frasers Property, thinks that one of the biggest changes has been the rethinking of the Australian backyard as a private enclave that requires weekly maintenance and mowing, to amenity-rich shared open space belonging to the community. Landscaped gardens, barbecue areas, pitches for playing cricket or kicking the football, shaded nooks for picnics, even ‘eat streets’ and urban piazzas filled with shops, cafes and local restaurants are becoming both the new normal and the new backyard for homebuyers. “Now that we’ve moved into denser urban form in cities and neighbourhoods across the country, the public domain substitutes for the backyard. It brings people out of their homes and is a lot more social and connected and vibrant as a result,” Dyer says.

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PROPERTY THE AUSSIE BACKYARD LIKE NEVER BEFORE

Fostering social connection and creating healthy communities is fundamental to the Frasers Property approach. “It’s all about resetting the experience from urban sprawl and social isolation to village living that encourages connection and a stronger sense of wellbeing,” Dyer explains.

On the company’s Ed.Square project in Sydney’s south west, a vibrant town centre is the focal point for this popular development. Susanne Pini, Director of Retail and Mixed Use at global architecture and construction engineering firm HDR, thinks that the Great Australian Dream of today is intrinsically tied to the existence and quality of local amenity. “To me, it’s all about having parts of culture that I want - cafes, restaurants, things that I need - at my front door. Things that make a difference to my life every day,” Pini says. “This notion that new communities are sometimes seen as dormitory suburbs with all the ‘good stuff’ happening elsewhere is not a healthy way to build strong, social and connected communities.”

One thing’s for sure: even as urban design and urban living evolves to meet the needs and challenges of the twenty-first century, the Great Australian Dream of home ownership still unites and excites us. There may be fewer big backyards to go around, but the level of imagination and thoughtfulness that’s going into public space design will be the envy of the world.

Find your new Aussie backyard in Edmondson Park. Visit the Ed.Square Sales Centre on corner of Soldiers Parade and Campbelltown Road, Edmondson Park, call 13 38 38 or visit Edsquare.com.au.

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THE NEW FRONTIER OF A PA RT M E N T LIVING Words: Oscar Hammond

Encompass, Carlton, VIC

The appeal of apartment living has struck a chord with a new generation of adults looking to live, buy or raise a family in their own homes.

As one of these ‘new adults’, I find comfort in the convenience and closeness of an apartment.

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ften, I find myself standing at the window of my corner flat on Chapel Street, Prahran just watching the world go by and feeling at ease knowing there’s hundreds of things happening around me. I can get lost wondering what the story of each person on the street is, or wondering how the people around me are living.

There’s so much life and energy all around that it becomes easy to find myself immersed in this new take on the ‘Great Australian Dream’.

Critics of apartment living will lament the loss of the backyard and the loss of weekends spent mowing the lawns, but I don’t see that. My ‘Great Australian Dream’ makes the city my lawn and everyone my neighbour.

As this ‘Great Australian Dream’ is being redefined, a new movement is emerging that has this fresh cohort of Australians reversing the old desire to move into big houses in the outer suburbs.

This inward migration is highlighting a new phenomenon where people are rewriting the notion of the Australian Dream and rejecting the idea of moving well out of city limits to a more affordable life - instead choosing apartment living in highly developed communities close to town.

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This in turn has created a new market for highly desirable multiple configuration apartment choices where the idea of new frontiers and ideal family life has changed to one of convenience, manageability and belonging.

More interestingly, this shift in the public consciousness isn’t only one of necessity, but also one of want.

It seems the new norm is to live where a more energetic version of life is happening as we strive to connect with people and with street level things around us.

new again as people take the aspects of suburban life that are so appealing and transpose them into new environments. Having friends a block away, walking to school, and going over to the neighbours for a barbecue exemplify the parts of the Australian Dream that people still want to hold on to.

This transformation is further accentuated by a changing population, whether it’s young people growing used to smaller living spaces or immigration bringing in new Australians with different cultural norms, it’s becoming clear that the tides of public opinion are changing.

Couple that feeling with the sheer convenience of apartment living and the result is an undeniable shift from big backyards and white Looking at our close neighbours picket fences to trendy apartments in Asia where this kind of living is normal, we can see populations in urban areas. thriving in close quarters, where Of course, the urban life will never community stands head and be for everybody, and there’s shoulders above other needs as the nothing wrong with that. In fact, a most important part of societies. lot of the connectivity that makes apartments and mixed-use spaces The country with the highest so worthwhile comes from the old population in the world is China with 1.4 billion people. That Australian Dream. staggering number is 40 times Because of this, old is becoming larger than our population of 25 18

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million, in a country roughly the same size. Despite this, they make it work. In fact, they thrive on community spirit and belonging, with parks commonly filled to the brim with people socialising and exercising, and markets filled with friendly banter. The kids refer to family friends as ‘Uncle’ or ‘Aunty’ and apartments are filled with guests, day in and day out.

This kind of community development has grown out of the power of high-density living where people opt to spend their leisure time in and around their dwellings.

This appears to be where Australia is headed as apartment living continues to grow beyond that of traditional house and land and the new order of Australians happily accept a more intense and collective way to live.

is to be Australian has changed.

Young people and new Australians are making up the bulk of the workforce and the bulk of the emerging population. These people could well be the future of Australia and they seem to prefer apartments.

As of 2017, apartments only made up 21% and 12% of all dwellings in NSW and VIC respectively, yet the amount of young people up to age 14 calling apartments home continues to increase.

One thing stopping families and older generations from joining their younger and new Australians is the more old fashioned bias towards commission flats and towering uninspired steel structures. But this too is changing.

Property developers like Frasers Property are identifying that apartment buildings should be Where Australians once met apartment living with community hubs with mixed use spaces for people to live and thrive apprehension or confusion, we’re now meeting the idea with renewed together, instead of blocks of rooms to hold the maximum amount interest and appreciation. of people.

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Coorparoo Square balcony, Coorparoo, QLD

The result is a new frontier in community living centered around the rise of apartments and the reinvention of inner suburbs as young and new Australians clamour for their spot closer to the high life of the city.

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ALL YOU H AV E TO DO

is move A new way of living life and getting active Words: Natasha Roberton

As Jane Flemming stood on the winners’ podium collecting Gold at the 1990 Auckland Commonwealth Games, having achieved the Australian and Commonwealth Games record in her signature Heptathlon event, she never dreamed that almost 30 years later, that record wouldn’t be beaten. But perhaps even more surprisingly, she wouldn’t have imagined that she would be at the forefront of a movement that is improving the health and wellbeing of tens of thousands of Australians.

The much loved two-time Olympian, along with former advertising guru Amanda King founded the free outdoor health and fitness program Live Live Get Active, and as a formidable team, they’re serious about helping Australians to feel fitter, healthier and happier.

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ccording to Live Life Get Active, over 56% of Australians are either overweight or obese; a condition that can lead to health issues such as diabetes, heart disease, and depression. With the twin supports of exercise and good nutrition, thousands of Australians have benefited from the program, improving their fitness levels, losing weight, and making new friends.

Jane Flemming - LLGA Ambassador and Director, Anthony Boyd - Frasers Property, Amanda King - LLGA CEO

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LLGA trainers at Central Park, Chippendale, NSW

This last benefit is now the most important goal for Live Life Get Active, says Flemming. “We started more as an anti-obesity initiative, but these days it’s more about us building community and social connectedness. We’ve realised that that feeling of isolation, of not being connected or not belonging, is a precursor of so many other health issues.”

The importance of community to individual health and wellbeing lies at the heart of Frasers Property’s development approach. So much so, that the company sponsors free Live Life Get Active classes at 22 of its residential communities. More than 7,700 residents take part in the program and the results have been truly inspiring: 5.8 tonnes of weight loss since the program’s inception and almost 73 metres of total waist circumference lost.

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For Live Life Get Active personal trainer, Maria Tiems, the program has been nothing short of transformative. “I initially got involved as a participant just over four years ago when the first camp launched in the Blacktown area. I was obese but was too embarrassed to join a gym and couldn’t afford a personal trainer, so this program provided me with the perfect opportunity to be active and fall in love with training again. It was free, and I could work out at my own pace without fear of intimidation. It changed my life completely. Last year, I completed my Cert III & IV in Fitness with the goal of becoming a trainer for Live Life Get Active, so here I am today.

I am extremely passionate about this program; I believe in it because I know it works,” Tiems says.

As far as Jane Flemming’s goal for the program to create a fun, active way for residents to meet and socialise within their

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neighbourhoods, Tiems says the social aspect is “probably one of the biggest impacts” she’s seen in her community. “Some members swap recipes, go shopping and have coffee after training, go to movies together, attend birthday parties, and so on. The increase in members’ fitness, confidence and wellbeing as a result of this program is fantastic to see.”

Live Life Get Active camps include boxing, Cross Active, yoga and Walk2Run, and are run by qualified, professional trainers.

Jane Flemming working with a resident Central Park residents getting active Jane Flemming with LLGA trainers

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Frasers Property Live Life Get Active Camps

Baldivis Central Park & Baldivis Grove Park 667 443kg 604cm

Lidcombe The Village Green 308 297kg 277cm

Blacktown Fairwater Park 244 216kg 317cm

North Coogee Coromandel Approach 333 175kg 297cm

Botany 292

300cm

North Ryde Blenheim Park 295 201kg 228cm

268cm

Parkville The Village Oval Galada Avenue Reserve 284 114kg 188cm

Sir Joseph Banks Park

259kg

Campsie Clemton Park 335 265kg

Carlton* Station Street Park 93kg 91cm 139

Point Cook Leapfrog Park 334kg 419cm 504

Chippendale Chippendale Green 909 425kg 557cm

Putney 279

Clyde North Waterfront Park (2 Camps) 771 990kg 1254cm

South Yarra Fawkner Park 300 245kg 275cm

Cockburn Central Cockburn Town Square 185 142kg 117cm

Wallan Merri Creek Park 243 252kg

East Perth Ozone Reserve 588 294kg 300cm

Westmeadows* Interpretive Reserve 105 77kg 154cm

Hamilton Hamilton Reach Park 239 147kg 184cm

Wetherill Park Horsley Drive Business Park

Hope Island Cova Recreation Centre 363 279kg 388cm

PROJECT AVERAGE

351 264 331 kg

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Royal Rehab Recreation Circle

326kg

393cm

422cm

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Wolli Creek Discovery Point Park 291 207kg 216cm TOTAL

7,730 REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS ACROSS 22 PROGRAMS 5.8 TONNES OF WEIGHT LOSS SINCE THE PROGRAM’S INCEPTION

Total registered participants Total kilograms weight loss Total centimetres waist circumference lost *No longer running their LLGA program

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72.75 METRES OF WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE LOST

ESCAPE TO A s a m t s i r h C e t i h W Words: Natasha Roberton

Annaberg-Buchholz Christmas market in Germany

Images: Getty Images

Already dreaming of your next Christmas holiday?

Why not put Germany on your travel list? The country is simply mad for the festive season, starting its celebrations in late November carrying through to Christmas Day itself.

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LIFESTYLE ESCAPE TO A WHITE CHRISTMAS

FIVE TIPS

for getting the most out of your yuletide trip to Deutschland:

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Christmas Christmas markets The most important You haven’t really day of experienced Christmas in celebration Germany without a visit is Christmas Eve, called What to eat & drink In addition to the aforementioned lebkuchen and stollen, no trip to Germany is complete without wurst

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Where to go for a white Christmas The only guarantees

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Where to stay There are a range of luxury hotels and serviced

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LIFESTYLE LIVING PROUD AT LIFE, POINT COOK

Living proud at Life, Point Cook:

The Crea family Words: Natasha Roberton

The Crea family, Life, Point Cook, VIC

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LIFESTYLE LIVING PROUD AT LIFE, POINT COOK

Leapfrog Park, Life, Point Cook, VIC

in the Frasers Property Live proud campaign.

We spoke to Danielle about Life, Point Cook and what living proud means for her and her family.

THE OPENING OF THE PARK WAS A GREAT DAY. ALL THE FOOD TRUCKS AND FACE PAINTING AND BALLOONS, IT REALLY BLEW ME AWAY. EVENTS LIKE THAT MAKE IT A REAL CELEBRATION, NOT JUST “OH, HERE’S YOUR LAND, AWAY YOU GO.” - DANIELLE

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Danielle and Ava, Life, Point Cook, VIC

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en years ago, when Danielle Crea and her husband Maro first moved to Point Cook, it was the suburb’s up and coming status and its ease of access that made it an appealing place to put down roots. Fast forward a decade, and the two became four, with the arrival of daughters Ava (7) and Evie (11 months).

With an expanding family and a strong affinity for the

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PROSPERITY ADVERTORIAL

Care that lasts a lifetime It’s often said that buying property is one of the biggest decisions you can ever make in your life. Certainly, it’s an achievement 1. to be Referral proud of, Bonuses Prosperity benefits

representing - as it so frequently does - a lot of hard work, saving, and lost

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Refer a friend who is not on our database and receive $2,000 when they purchase a property from Frasers Property.

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weekends spent attending open days or auctions.

But that’s just the first part of the journey.

What comes next - moving into your

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COMMUNITY HOW TO CHOOSE THE RIGHT COMMUNITY FOR YOU

H O W TO

CHOOSE THE RIGHT COMMUNITY FOR YOU Words: Natasha Roberton

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hether you’re looking at building your

Clemton Park Shopping Village, Campsie, NSW

1. Draft your wishlist Is being close to a primary school important? What about aged care?

Would you rather live near water

or close to a park? And how about access to public transport and sporting grounds? Do you want the buzz that comes from living in

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a vibrant city, or is a quieter, more connected village-style community more your speed?

2. Don’t just rely on internet research and

Discovery Point, Wolli Creek, NSW

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COMMUNITY DISCOVER SYDNEY’S HIDDEN GEM

Discovery Point

Discover Sydney’s hidden gem Words: Natasha Roberton

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ucked away in Sydney’s inner south, just 10kms from the CBD as the crow flies, is one of the city’s hidden gems: Discovery Summer Edition | Live proud

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Point.

Its 1,500+ residents enjoy resort-style living that’s almost unheard of anywhere else this close

to a capital city: architecturally designed apartments with waterfront access to Cooks River, expansive parklands and playgrounds,

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COMMUNITY DISCOVER SYDNEY’S HIDDEN GEM

Roger, Jane and Cara, Discovery Point residents

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COMMUNITY DISCOVER SYDNEY’S HIDDEN GEM

WE STARTED A MUSIC GROUP CALLED THE WOLLI CREAKERS TO BRING TOGETHER LOCAL MUSICIANS FOR A BIT OF FUN AND TO PLAY AT A FEW EVENTS. WE’VE GOT TWO OR THREE UKULELE PLAYERS, SHADOW PLAYS KEYBOARDS AND ONE OF MY BROTHERS IS A PERCUSSIONIST. I ALSO PLAY HARMONICA AND VARIOUS OTHER INSTRUMENTS JUST FOR FUN, AND ROGER IS OUR BASS PLAYER.- JANE Roger and Jane, enjoying their view

a piazza-style village market and meeting place, indoor/ outdoor heated swimming pools, gymnasiums and walking trails.

With its own train station one stop from Sydney’s Domestic Airport, this

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Discovery Point, Wolli Creek, NSW

charming urban Like many of enclave has Discovery Point’s been delighting those that have ‘discovered’ it since Frasers Property broke earth on the Wolli Creek project back in 2003.

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COMMUNITY COMMUNITY EVENTS

COMMUNITY EVENTS

From huge events like the exploration of the harbour floor,NSW through The Waterfront, Shell Cove Bottom of the Harbour February 2018

Fairwater Fairwater Foodies July 2018

VIC Life, Point Cook Leapfrog Park Grand Opening November 2017

Berwick Waters The Greenshoots Project September 2017

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COMMUNITY INSIDE THE MIND OF A MASTER COMMUNITY PLANNER

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and me a piece of paper and a pencil and I reckon I’d be able to map out my entire childhood. When I was a kid, I lived in Brisbane. It was a dead-end street that had bushland all around. I’d

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ride my bike through it to get to my best mate’s house and from there we’d race up to the top of Mt Cootha to wag school sometimes. At our local corner shop was

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the newsagency and the bus stop where I’d catch the first of four buses to get to school and back -- on the days I went, of course.

Pride of place was the local sports oval, where I played cricket in my Dad’s team.

And I can still vividly remember my first girlfriend’s house and how much time was spent there.

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in. And these days, in my role as the General Manager Development and Design at Frasers Property, it’s something I can have a hand in designing for people all across the country.

These childhood memories are EVERY SINGLE THING WE DO HAS A REAL IMPACT ON HOW underpinned a TO LIVE IN THAT COMMUNITY, AND IT’S PEOPLE ARE by GOING A RESPONSIBILITY really strong sense of NOT TO BE TAKEN LIGHTLY. community that I was lucky enough to live

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I’ve learnt a few things in my thirty years in this industry, but they can mostly be distilled down into three key things that I keep coming back to. Funnily enough, they are also three rules for life;

Townhouse at Fairwater, Blacktown, NSW View across the lake at Fairwater, Blacktown, NSW Residents enjoying the pool at Discovery Point, Wolli Creek, NSW

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SUSTAINABILITY ARCHITECTURE THAT MAKES US HAPPY

Architecture that makes us happy BRINGING NATURE INTO T H E B U I LT E N V I R O N M E N T Words: Natasha Roberton

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lain de Botton is a modern day philosopher with a knack for revealing extraordinary truths often concealed by their ordinariness. One of these is that a significant source of our happiness and misery is as a result of the environment we’re surrounded by. Dreary surroundings can feel

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Burwood Brickworks, Burwood East, VIC

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Valley Park, Westmeadows, VIC

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SUSTAINABILITY ARCHITECTURE THAT MAKES US HAPPY

soul-shattering; while beautiful, vital settings are “an eloquent reminder of our full potential.” De Botton wrote an entire book - The Happiness of Architecture - on the subject, contending that how we live heavily influences who we can be.

This insight is very much at the heart of the Frasers Property approach to design and sustainability.

One of our core beliefs is that life’s best experiences are created by people connecting in

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SUSTAINABILITY THE NEW MOVE TO MAKE BUILDINGS GREEN

THE NEW MOVE TO MAKE BUILDINGS GREEN We explain the Green Star building rating system changing communities.

Words: Natasha Roberton

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hese days we’re all familiar with the energy star rating labels that come attached to various household electrical goods - everything from washing machines and fridges through to swimming pool pumps and air conditioners. But did you know that there’s also a rating system for the design, construction and operation of buildings and communities? It’s called the Green Star rating system, a certification program run by the Green Building Council of Australia, and it’s helping to lower the environmental footprint of our buildings while improving the health and wellbeing of our communities.

Central Park, Chippendale, NSW

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Green Star performance

Why greener matters The world’s built environment - our homes, offices, buildings, cities and suburbs - stands as the planet’s

Where can I find a Green Star rated

Fairwater, Blacktown is the first 6-Star Green Star community in NSW.

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NEWS 2018: A YEAR OF MILESTONES

2018

A year of milestones As another transformative year draws to a close for Frasers Property, we wanted to take the opportunity to look back on some of the achievements and milestones that have made these communities what they are today, and how they have, and will continue to influence our new projects for years to come.

WA

Port Coogee

»»celebrates its 10th anniversary. »»formation of the Port Coogee Community Association. »»releases two new stages to market.

Burwood Brickworks, Burwood East, VIC

ARTIST’S IMPRESSION

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Frasers Landing, Mandurah, WA

WA

VIC

Mambourin

and district »»receives its first park in January planning permit, and launches residential including five residential stages land sales, with the first two (273 lots) and a stages selling 5.4ha wetland out on opening

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QLD

The Rise, Park Ridge

Our projects NSW Coorparoo Square, Coorparoo, QLD

»»celebrates the completion of the work on the new public park. project.

Brookhaven

»»welcomes its 100th resident and commences

»»Central Park

Carina

»»settles on their site in June and lodges developer NSW

Central Park

»»completes 313 apartments that form the DUO Building and the opening of Four Point by Sheraton Sydney.

ARTIST’S IMPRESSION The Waterfront, Shell Cove, NSW

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AFTER 94 YEARS OF CREATING PLACES FOR AUSTRALIANS TO LIVE, WE LOVE TO SEE THE EXCITEMENT AND ANTICIPATION THAT COMES FROM BUYING PROPERTY AND FULFILLING A HARD-WORKED-FOR DREAM.

Anthony Boyd, Executive General

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