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Josh Mangleson

Josh Mangleson

Property Economist at ResortBrokers Australia and head of RB Research, author of the annual Management Rights Report and Motel Report.

Sep 22, 2026

8:06
Sometimes if you've got a smaller motel, it's always a two-person management team, but it might not need two people 24-7.
8:13
The other interesting thing that we noted in the report was the going concern sub 20 room market now has a tighter median yield than above 20 rooms.
8:22
And again, we put that down to that living component, but again, it's a beneficiary of the housing market.
8:29
in that people still want some kind of a freehold asset and suddenly they've got all this equity in their house and they're actually more comfortable cashing out and buying an entry-level motel where they still own the property if everything else fails.
8:43
They've still got an asset that's worth some money and rather than saving for years to get into a leasehold, which was a more traditional position, they're able to cash out the house and stump up the 60% that they need to get into the motel, and suddenly they're making a lot more money than what they did working in a corporate nine-to-five in the CBD, and they've got control of their lifestyle or whatever that happens to be.
9:06
Great if you've got children,

30 MINS LATER

38:51
Josh, what do you reckon the industry is going to be when we do the report next year?
38:55
I mean, it's hard to not see per key rates continuing to move up as a combination of occupancy and ADR.
15:29
What does median mean, Josh?
15:31
That's your...
15:32
We...
15:33
If, if, uh, everyone in this room stood up and ordered themselves in height from shortest to tallest, the middle person is your median, your 50th percentile.
15:41
And so we deal in medians and upper and lower quartiles, which are kind of halfway between your median and your minimum and your maximum.
15:50
That kind of gives us our middle-
16:00
And the report only refers to the median, doesn't it?
16:03
Yeah.

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