What changes on 2 December 2026.
A plain-language explainer. Every claim on this page carries a reference your solicitor can check, and none of it is advice.
The current pathway is closing.
Today, a purpose-built rooming house on a qualifying residential block in Queensland can be approved through an accepted development pathway: if the proposal meets the published standards, it proceeds.
From 2 December 2026, that pathway is due to change. New proposals are expected to require a different form of assessment, which adds time, cost, and discretion to every future project.
Projects approved before the change keep their approvals. The change is not retrospective: it narrows the gate for what comes after, which is precisely why the window matters to supply.
Acting now versus acting later.
If you act inside the window, your project is assessed under the current rules, and its approval stands after the date passes. You buy into a class of stock that becomes structurally harder to add to.
If you wait, nothing stops you investing later, but new supply faces the narrower pathway, and the purpose-built stock that exists will be what was approved in time.
Timelines matter here. An approval has to be lodged, assessed, and granted before the date, which is why every package on the current list is tracked against the window, and why the list shows each package's approval status.
Do not take our word for it.
Ask us for the planning references behind any package and hand them to your solicitor or town planner. The regulatory change, the current pathway, and each package's approval status are all independently verifiable.
See what is inside the window.
The current package list shows each package's approval status against 2 Dec 2026.
Request the current package list