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While industrial remains the commercial property sweet spot, convenience retail, which is largely immune to e-commerce, is proving an excellent defensive asset.

Increasing e-commerce penetration, population growth and rising construction costs will ensure supply for this commercial real estate sector remains tight.

Laurence Parisi will build on more than two decades in real estate with listed and unlisted funds to grow funds under management and broaden the product offering.

While the greater housing market is already reflecting the pain of constricting economic conditions, a new property fund partnership between Trilogy Funds and Michael Birch’s Murray Darling Capital shows the potential of ‘rent roll’ portfolios of rental property management agreements to provide exposure to the supersized Australian property sector even as the outlook darkens.

While data is a big part of Michael Birch’s new property fund play, he says the real key to running a rent roll investment is maintaining relationships.

The respected corporate adviser and manager is laying it all on the line after “rolling the sleeves up” on multi-faceted research for his new property-based fund.