Sector Issues


  • Government regulated industry.
  • Staffing ratios.
  • Future wage pressures.
  • Corporate entities seeing an emergence of a two tier childcare sale market.
  • Corporate entities driving market with shareholder funds.
  • Whilst the market is now buoyant a risk of future correction is possible as evident in the past history of the childcare market in Australia.
  • There has recently been an active interest in investment child care centre sales with investors being driven by the current cash-rate cycle in relation to yields as opposed to traditional child care investors in the past focusing on fundamentals.
  • Loop hole in current childcare approvals whereby licensing body is not checking Council or Land & Environment Court Approvals & relying instead on independent architectural plans for unencumbered floor areas.