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Say Hi to NDISP House – Our New Brisbane Headquarters, Warehouse & Community Facilities

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NDISP House

NDISP is excited to introduce you to NDISP House. We have the keys for the next 20 years to this 2000m2 plus building on 4000m2 plus of land.

New Corporate Headquarters (as well as our Brisbane CBD Office)

(We are not moving, we are keeping our Brisbane CBD Office in Edward St, though we may drop down to 250m2 or so next year.)

With almost 700m2 of office at the front and 30 plus carparks 2mins from the Gateway we have decided to make this our Corporate Head Quarters.  Whilst we really like our CBD offices, and will be keeping them, the plentiful parking with easy access to the Gateway to the airport, Sunshine Coast, Gold Coast, Ipswich and beyond the location really helps our constantly travelling team.

Our mailing address will stay as PO Box 16235 City East QLD 4002 as we will retain some administration and accounts staff in the CBD Office

Warehouse

To reduce construction costs to our investors we are directly importing and buying some of our automation, solar, airconditioning and other equipment.

On top of this our sister company Yellow Card Helpers  will be based out of part of the warehouse and use the additional 200m2 of offices above the mezzanine level.  Yellow Card Helpers businesses running out of the warehouse will be:

  • Yellow Card Automation
  • Yellow Card Carpet Cleaning
  • Yellow Card Cleaners
  • Yellow Card Electrical
  • Yellow Card Furniture Rental
  • Yellow Card Gardening
  • Yellow Card Handyman
  • Yellow Card Plumbing

Yellow Card Helpers is a specialist service business for NDIS Participants and their Properties.  They don’t provide services for anyone other than people with disabilities, nor do they provide any care services, support coordination etc.  Yellow Card Helpers have their property services division, their community interaction division and their SDA housing assistance division.

Community Facilities

Dance & Performing Arts

Inside part of the warehouse we are constructing 3 dance and performing arts studios plus singing rooms.  These will be used by Yellow Card Dance & Performing Arts to run classes specifically for people with disabilities of all ages including a very cool wheelchair dance class for kids.  They will also be used by Kick Dance  to run dance and performing arts classes open to the wider community.

Gymnastics

We are in final stage negotiations with a gymnastics school and hope to be able to fit out another part of the facility for gymnastics and movement classes.

Movement & Other Community Classes & Workshops

Our facilities will be available for other providers to use for community and social interactions

Coffee Container & Function Facility

We are currently preparing a development application to allow us to have some converted shipping containers in the carpark to be used for a coffee hut open to Junction Rd and the public on one side and open to staff, participants and supporters on the inside of the carpark (fence separating as our site will be a secure site as below)

A Safe Space

We are passionate about providing safe spaces and NDISP House requires all staff and contractors who come on site to have blue cards, yellow cards and have completed the NDIS worker orientation module.  Children attending dance and gymnastics classes, participants, parents and loved ones are exempt from this requirement in accordance with practice standards.

Local Humans with National Support

Although we are headquartered in Brisbane and we deliberately avoid layers of management or duplication across regions and states that doesn’t mean we neglect our other areas.  We currently have offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Perth with Cairns opening this quarter.  But more importantly we have real humans on the ground in areas they are needed.  Our relationship managers are our people people.  They don’t have to look after maintenance, finance or anything other than the humans in our properties, their supporters and loved ones and the other humans they interact with like carers, support coordinators, other providers and health professionals.

 

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Hundreds of NDISP SDA Properties Start Construction – Hope Our Builders Had a Great Rest

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Many of our builders return to work tomorrow after a well earned break. Hopefully they are well rested it’s a big year.

January

Either already under construction or breaking ground this month we have almost 30 SDA properties in

Cairns

Sunshine Coast

Toowoomba

February

Caboolture

Cairns

Cannon Hill

Ipswich

Logan

Mission Beach

Morningside

Nundah

Sunshine Coast

Wellington Point

Wyong

March Onwards

All of the above plus

Albany (WA)

Busselton

Cleveland

Geraldton

Gippsland

Latrobe

Melbourne

Mornington Pennisula

Newcastle

Northern Rivers

Perth

Redland Bay

Southport

Sydney

More Areas Later in Year

We probably missed an area or 2 in the lists above and we are sure we will be asked to help people out of inappropriate places and into ones they are happy to call home elsewhere around the country also.

Need an SDA Property

If you or a loved one are in need of an SDA property then we have the funding and resources to help provide just about anywhere in the country, all you need to do is let us know.

 

 

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Smithfield FNQ – SDA Properties Construction Early 2020

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Fully Accessible 3 Bedroom & High Physical Support 3 Bedroom SDA Houses – Smithfield

We are very excited about our move into Far North Queensland.

Building on from our last trip.

It looks like we will be able to break ground in Smithfield just after Australia Day.  Looking forward to watching those come out of the ground.

SDA Mission Beach, Cairns CBD and Kewarra Beach

We are also in negotiations on some 2 bedroom Villas ( one resident) in Kewarra Beach,  2 Bedroom units in a block of 4 in Grafton St and some houses in Mission Beach.

SDA Vacancies Smithfield

At this stage we are likely to have one tenant secured for each.  Both young people in their 20’s.  We are really looking.foewars to working with these young people and finding other people to share with them.  We work really hard on making sure the tenants are suited to living together.

Want SDA Elsewhere in Far North QLD

We are privledged to have sufficient funding to build many properties in Far North QLD.

If you or someone you know wants to live in an awesome place then just let us know. We will build something great to suit.

 

 

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5 New Live Stream Cameras of SDA Builds on Sunshine Coast

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5 New Camera Feeds of SDA Construction Sunshine Coast Live

As previously noted, we were starting to roll out camera feeds on our construction sites.  Now we have it sorted for how to do it on underground powered sites you will see new cameras added regularly.

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SDA Property Queensland – Construction Camera Feeds

Nambour SDA Site

 

There will plenty of more SDA Property Cameras to come soon.  While we have more than 200 properties scheduled to build this financial year we will not be putting cameras on everyone but we are likely to have them on at least half.

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Smart Automation – Visit to Middy’s Smart Centre in Melbourne

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Middys Smart Centre

Middy’s Smart Centre – Melbourne

Steve and Helen at Middy’s smart centre in Melbourne were really great.

Middy’s have been outstanding working with our electrician,  Yellow Card Electrical and have spent hours helping design all our systems.  Ray in the Brisbane automation office has been outstanding also.

The visit did make us consider putting solenoids in for water in the showers.

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How Long is Too Long – Getting People Out of Aged Care – Annual Public Forum

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Summer Foundation Annual Public Forum  – How Long is Too Long

It was such a privilege to spend time with people who are enjoying an SDA Property. A 25 year old lady was talking about just how life changing it is. Her mother has cared for her for 25 years and then 24/7 carers.  She now has downtime, time by herself can go to the city and a park by herself.   Her mother got her life back too, it really was life changing for her.

And there were the terrible stories from people stuck in aged care.  One lady has been in for 6.5 years.  She has to go to bed at 7:30pm each night.  And it was clear she has given up, she worked hard for a year to find somewhere, but she has completely given up.

 

 

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CONSTRUCTION STARTED SDA Properties in South East QLD

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Construction Starting to Take Off in South East QLD

After more than 2 years of solid work and preparation our massive pipeline of SDA is underway en masse.

Electricity Poles Installed

Yellow Card Electrical (Australia’s only NDIS only Electrical business) has been busy installing power poles and new mains switchboards on sites that require overhead power. Energex are connecting the supply for Yellow Card Utilities (Australia’s only Electricity and Internet Retailer solely  for NDIS Participants). You can see them hard at work up a ladder on one of our SDA Property  construction cameras.

Soil Tests and Slab Design

Soil tests and slab design are now complete at large number of our sites from Ipswich to Nambour.  Toowoomba and Southport are happening soon.

Demolition

Demolition approvals are in and we are just awaiting Energex to move the power cables from the old house to the new property pole and demolition will start and be completed within 2 days.

Slabs Starting

Footings are imminent and we expect to have slabs going down on half a dozen sites during November.

Roof on By Christmas

Our builders in Nambour and Caloundra are DB Construct .

They tell us we will have slabs down frames up, roof on and be through brick and cladding by Christmas

Our Ipswich, Brisbane and Toowoomba builders aushomes.com.au are working hard at having the roof on many of our builds by Christmas also.

SDA Properties Filling Fast

Now that construction is underway our places are filling fast.  We anticipate  all of them will be filled prior to the roof going on.  Check our rentals page for a sample. At this stage some of our properties are filled the moment the build contract goes unconditional.

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SDA Site Shopping Roundup -19 July 2019

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Where We’ve Been Looking

It’s been a busy week this week for our site acquisition team, spent mostly in the bayside suburbs of Brisbane and the Redlands.

Property (ies) of the Week

Great 800m2 sites in Birkdale. – going to be 4 units plus OOA on each site.  So close to shops and train.

What We Bought or are Buying

Some waterfront properties in the Redlands as well as near waterfront.  Excellent locations in Victoria Point, Birkdale, Wellington Point.  Also found some 600m2 sites in Moorooka and Salisbury.  We also started looking in Darwin and talking to builders up there.  NDISP has about 60 people waiting for us to build places there and there will be a lot more demand to come once we start working with people.

What We Didn’t Buy

There are few sites in the Redlands that were just too large.  Otherwise it was a very successful week.

Designing Updates

We spent a morning with our designers completing some house designs for 12.5m wide blocks for a SIL in Walloon.  Spending a lot of time working on renders.

An Update From NDISD

As always this is an update from our Development Partner NDISD on the sites and units they have been acquiring lately.

With in excess of $200m of completed properties needed by NDISP to supply outstanding new homes in the  Financial Year Ending 30 June 2019 and over $800m by 30 June 2022 the pipeline of supply is a vital component.

Read below for what our current priorities are and email us at [email protected] for an intro to an NDISD team member who can quickly assess whether your site is suitable.

Wanted to Buy

With NDISP’s mission to provide homes for people with disabilities that are just as easy to find and move into as non accessible homes, NDISD  are constantly acquiring land for houses, unit sites and 10 units inside other developers off the plan complexes.

We look for flat sites that are preferably all of, or at least :

  • Located an easy, flat chair roll away from shops, cafes etc;
  • Have an excellent view or something more interesting than a neighbouring fence;
  • On or close to a high frequency public transport route.

Whilst above is the desired outcome for a lot of tenants, people with disabilities live everywhere and we will look at any site to see if it helps someone get into their new home.

Current Site Priorities

While always looking for all of these, the order of priority changes regularly

  1. 350 – 800m2 sites for houses
  2. 600m2 unit sites
  3. 10 units inside larger complexes

Current Location Priorities

While always looking in all of these,areas (and the rest of Queensland) the order of priority changes regularly

  1. Brisbane – West
  2. Gold Coast
  3. Logan
  4. Beenleigh
  5. Brisbane – East
  6. Brisbane – South
  7. Brisbane – North
  8. Gold Coast
  9. Sunshine Coast
  10. Redcliffe
  11. Ipswich
  12. Moreton Bay Council – Other
  13. Caboolture

 

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NDISP Technology – Little Things in NDISP Homes to Make Your Life Easier

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Smart Home Automation

Every NDISP home has a full smart home automation system installed to make living in them easier

  • Automatic Doors
  • Automatic Lights & Fans
  • Automatic Air Conditioning
  • Automatic Blinds

All controlled by voice, phone, tablet, browser and good old fashioned buttons and switches

Space to Move

Every NDISP home has 1200mm doors, extra wide hallways, large turning circles and massive ensuites.

 

 

 

 

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SDA Site Shopping Roundup -12 July 2019

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Where We’ve Been Looking

It’s been a busy week this week for our site acquisition team, spent mostly in the Brisbane.

Property (ies) of the Week

Great 400m2 sites in Coopers Plains – Drone Footage of the Estate at the linl- going to be 4 bed plus OOA houses on each site.  Close to QEII hospital, shops, trains, buses, Grifith uni.

What We Bought or are Buying

As well as the Coopers Plain’s sites we picked up some new blocks in Waterford West and started negotiating on more units in Cannon Hill

What We Didn’t Buy

There were some sites in Ellen Grove that look great, but we don’t have tenants for those at the moment so we will be looking for tenants before grabbing any of these.

Designing Updates

The renders for Morningside were published in an earlier post.  Seven Hills renders and design are being done now.  We have some great new 2 and 3 bed house designs being finalised.

An Update From NDISD

As always this is an update from our Development Partner NDISD on the sites and units they have been acquiring lately.

With in excess of $130m of completed properties needed by NDISP to supply outstanding new homes in the  Financial Year Ending 30 June 2019 and over $600m by 30 June 2022 the pipeline of supply is a vital component.

Read below for what our current priorities are and email us at [email protected] for an intro to an NDISD team member who can quickly assess whether your site is suitable.

Wanted to Buy

With NDISP’s mission to provide homes for people with disabilities that are just as easy to find and move into as non accessible homes, NDISD  are constantly acquiring land for houses, unit sites and 10 units inside other developers off the plan complexes.

We look for flat sites that are preferably all of, or at least :

  • Located an easy, flat chair roll away from shops, cafes etc;
  • Have an excellent view or something more interesting than a neighbouring fence;
  • On or close to a high frequency public transport route.

Whilst above is the desired outcome for a lot of tenants, people with disabilities live everywhere and we will look at any site to see if it helps someone get into their new home.

Current Site Priorities

While always looking for all of these, the order of priority changes regularly

  1. 350 – 800m2 sites for houses
  2. 600m2 unit sites
  3. 10 units inside larger complexes

Current Location Priorities

While always looking in all of these, areas (and the rest of Queensland) the order of priority changes regularly

  1. Moreton Bay
  2. Brisbane – West
  3. Brisbane – North
  4. Brisbane – East
  5. Brisbane – South
  6. Gold Coast
  7. Sunshine Coast
  8. Redcliffe
  9. Ipswich
  10. Caboolture

 

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Renders of NDIS SDA 4 x 2 Bed plus OOA – Just Because It’s Accessible Doesn’t Mean It Can’t Look Awesome

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SDA Floor Plan

The renders are coming along nicely for our new 4 x 2 Bed SDA Property in Morningside.

These are based on the plans designed expertly by Ben and Paul Wilson at William H Wilson & Associates   [email protected] .  Highly recommend working with these gentleman.  They are second generation and have actually spent time on site swinging a hammer so know what they are doing.

Demand for SDA Housing Far Exceeds Supply

50 Young People with Disabilities Admitted to Aged Care – EVERY WEEK

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DEMAND

We know that at least 12,000 new places are needed to meet the demand for SDA and 16,000 need to be refurbished. With 6,200 young people with disabilities already living in residential aged care, an additional 50 people moving in every week looks like it will offset all of the development underway.

NDISP Supply

While NDISP is privileged to have the financial and supply resources to develop around 1250 properties, the Northern Territory and Victoria in the next 3 years (we are still working on funding and construction supply in other states) it appears that this is unlikely to be enough to make any significant contribution to the problem.

What We Can Do

It looks like NDISP will need to look at increasing it’s resources to be able to deliver even more SDA property in year 2 and 3 than we originally anticipated.  I guess $1B worth of property is not as much as what it seems.

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Cheaper & Cleaner Electricity for ALL NDISP Tenants & No Electricity Accounts for Owners

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NDISP and NDISD have been working hard to harness the volume of our properties to enable us to provide a better deal on electricity.

At this stage NDISD is on schedule to deliver more than 150 new properties in Queensland in the coming financial year, we are hoping to be able to achieve double that number and continue to work on both funding and construction pipelines.  (the next financial year we are starting to plan to deliver nearly 500 in QLD plus hundreds in other states. While this will barely make a dent in the demand for SDA property, we will be helping hundreds of people with disability move into outstanding places they can call home.

With this volume we have been able to leverage a deal that will deliver:

  1. Electricity to tenants cheaper than available to any single property;
  2. No Common Area accounts or bills required for the owners of the properties;
  3. Massive use of solar and renewable energy.

In the coming weeks we will be able to announce the prices for our properties but we are very excited to be able to add another way that we can reduce the cost of living pressures on people living in our SDA properties.

 

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SDA in Shailer Park?

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Shailer Park – 2 x 4 bedroom + OOA houses with never to be built out stunning natural views

These properties are ready to start construction.

Like all NDISD properties these units have:
– Solar System & Battery for Critical Supply
– Fully automated voice/phone/tablet controlled doors, blinds, lights, windows, A/C, fans and Televisions
– large rooms with easy manoeuvrability
– grab rails
– ceiling rails
– fully accessible bathroom to EVERY bedroom
– separate quality OOA with quality fittings and office for carers

Each of these bedrooms also contain their own kitchenette

Turnkey properties are available for sale in the low to mid $700’s

Ideally these properties will be occupied by 3 residents leaving a bedroom free for family and friends to visit. 4 residents will be considered.

People with SDA in their plan or eligible to do so are encouraged to list their interest.

http://www.ndisp.com.au/rentals/