Renowned Demographer set to outline our future at the FCPIA luncheon

THE FRASER Coast Property Industry Association will host its next engaging event on Friday June 30th, when they play host to Simon Kuestenmacher, a rising star globally in the field of data management and insight.

As the Co-Founder of The Demographics Group based in Melbourne, Simon is a columnist with The Australian and The New Daily newspapers.

Simon has presented to numerous corporate and industry audiences across Australia and overseas on demographic trends, consumer insights and cultural change in Australia.

Voicing strong opinions about the future of Hervey Bay, including the infrastructure we will need to deal with our unprecedented growth expectations, his strong predictions are backed with data and evidence.

“New businesses, work practices and consumer behaviours will emerge, and local manufacturing will be prioritised as areas like Hervey Bay forge ahead,” Simon said.

“The experience of working from home delivers a new productivity, lessens commuting, upskills the workforce in self-sufficiency and creates new businesses in technology. When that is coupled with a highly desirable lifestyle location like the Fraser Coast, it all bodes well.”

“The largest demographic driver in the decades ahead will be millennials reaching the family formation stage, working from home and demanding larger houses. Four-bedroom houses are unaffordable in the inner city, and millennials can be encouraged to move to the regions if the case is made in the right way.”

Having undergone a once-in-a-generation property boom across the Fraser Coast, the luncheon will focus on what we need to do as a region to deal with our ongoing attractiveness as a destination.

“This is an extremely rare opportunity to strengthen our regions, and the Fraser Coast is at the very top of this demand. We must get the planning and storytelling right though."

FCPIA President Glen Winney was excited at the prospect of bringing such a highly credentialed guest to the luncheon series.

“Simon has amassed 300,000 global followers on social media, reaches over 25 million people every month and ranks as one of the world’s Top 10 influencers in data visualisation,” Glen said.

Both members and non-members of the FCPIA are invited to attend the luncheon on Friday June 30th, at the Beach House Hotel.

Head to www.trybooking.com to get your tickets.