Harry Triguboff
Harry Triguboff
Harry Oscar Triguboff AO, an Australian billionaire residential property developer, is one of Australia's richest people. He is the founder and managing director of Meriton and is colloquially known as "high-rise Harry". In May 2016 Triguboff was declared the wealthiest person in Australia by net worth in the annual BRW Rich 200 list...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionBusinessman
Date of Birth3 March 1933
CountryAustralia
against australian became build further higher home newspapers telling worse
The newspapers were against me. They were telling me that the Australian dream was a home. But that dream became worse and worse as they had to live further away from the city. My dream became better as we could build higher and higher.
airbnb quite
There's always room for an operator like Airbnb, but it's quite a different thing to my serviced apartments. Airbnb is a different market - it has nothing to do with me.
buy market money
This is a lifetime job. You don't look at it, you know, now and then. It doesn't really matter. When the market comes down, then I buy my land very cheaply, so I make my money on that.
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It's a very difficult business, and I'm very interested in the future of it after I'm gone, and I thought that if I can't produce a strong management team here myself, and I can find better management elsewhere, then I should sell it.
If we allow more development, it will bring housing affordability.
believe good local people
The market is good when the local people are in it and believe in it and support it. That's what I want.
When the unions were fighting me 45 years ago, they could never beat me.