HOME Parramatta and the question of renting well

Renting in Australia is still often treated as an interim condition: a stage before ownership rather than a legitimate long-term way of living. Build-to-rent (BTR) has entered that conversation with some force, but its architectural value depends on whether it can offer more than scale.At HOME Parramatta, lead architect Nicholas Byrne of DKO frames BTR as a design question as much as a housing model. Located in Sydney’s second CBD, the project sits within a market where affordability is of