Investment · Development · Living
We unlock opportunity in Australia's living sector — identifying, understanding and creating opportunities to develop and invest in institutional-grade Build-to-Rent and Co-Living communities that deliver attractive risk-adjusted returns alongside exceptional resident experiences.
About Us
The Key Living Company is a specialist investment management and property development firm focused on Australia's rapidly evolving residential living sector. We identify, shape and invest in opportunities across build-to-rent, co-living and related asset classes — combining a pioneering track record in Australian institutional BTR with the investment discipline to underwrite, structure and deliver assets that create enduring value for our partners.
Our principals each bring over 25 years of experience across funds management, capital markets, property development and investment — forged across Australia, Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. From investment thesis and capital formation through to site origination, development delivery and portfolio management, we bring the full spectrum of capability that sophisticated opportunities demand.
Our Expertise
We focus where deep sector knowledge creates an enduring advantage — in segments of the Australian living sector that are reshaping how Australians live and how capital is deployed into housing.
Our Approach
A specialist firm with institutional capability and a rare sector pedigree — bringing principal-led focus, deep sector expertise and genuine conviction in the living sector's long-term fundamentals. Built around the discipline to move decisively and the expertise to execute — and driven by a singular focus on delivering outcomes our partners are proud to own.
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We unlock opportunity across three distinct engagement models — working with a focused group of partners to identify, structure and deliver institutional-grade outcomes in the Australian living sector.
Living
Well-designed, professionally managed communities don't just attract residents — they create genuine homes where residents feel they belong and are free to live. That sense of belonging is the foundation of assets that endure.
Our Principals
Built around rare sector pedigree and deep institutional capability — bringing together the investment discipline, capital markets expertise and development execution that the living sector's most sophisticated opportunities demand.
Chris founded The Key Living Company on the conviction that Australia's living sector represents one of the most compelling long-term investment opportunities in the region — and that genuine sector expertise is the critical determinant of who can unlock and capture it.
Chris was among the first to identify and act on the institutional BTR opportunity in Australia. As founding Managing Director of Greystar's Australian platform, he conceived the market entry strategy, raised A$1.3bn in institutional equity for Australia's first dedicated institutional BTR fund from global pension funds, and built a development pipeline of ~2,500 units and a 35-person vertically integrated team — establishing one of the country's largest and most recognised BTR platforms from inception.
His earlier career at Macquarie Capital, Goldman Sachs and JLL delivered deep transaction and capital markets experience across more than A$10bn in complex portfolio, platform and capital markets transactions across listed and unlisted markets — advising Australia's leading real estate companies, REITs and institutional owners on their most significant transactions and strategic decisions across domestic and international markets.
Forged by global best practice across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific, and with the local market knowledge that only comes from building the sector from the ground up, Chris brings a rare combination of conviction, capital relationships and operational understanding to The Key Living Company.
Norm brings over 25 years of end-to-end development expertise to The Key Living Company — spanning origination, acquisition, feasibility, capital raising, delivery and asset management across some of Australia's most complex and high-profile real estate projects.
Norm's living sector credentials are deeply rooted in his time at Greystar, where as Director of Development and Acquisitions he played a central role in delivering the Australian BTR platform's development pipeline — including some of the country's largest and most recognised institutional BTR projects. His earlier career spans Charter Hall, Walker Corporation and Australand in Australia, and Youngwoo & Associates in New York — where he delivered large-scale mixed-use and commercial projects including the landmark Pier 57 waterfront marketplace.
A rare combination of financial and technical capability — holding both an unrestricted builder's licence and a Graduate Diploma in Finance and Investment — Norm brings the full development lifecycle expertise that institutional living sector investment demands.
Selected Prior Experience
Projects in which our principals held direct development responsibility — originated, delivered or managed prior to the establishment of The Key Living Company.
Build to RentCompleted 2024
Build to RentCompleted 2024
Co-LivingCompleted 2025
Build to RentUnder Construction
Build to RentUnder Construction
BTR / BTSUnder Construction
Build to RentIn Development
Build to RentUnder Construction* Combined end value across South Yarra, Victoria (BTR) and South Yarra, Victoria (Co-Living), forming part of a single dual-tower development on Yarra and Claremont Streets.
All project end values are estimated values on a stabilised basis.
Contact
Whether you're a capital partner, landowner or collaborator, we'd welcome a conversation about how we can work together.