About Us

At the leading edge of healthcare property since 1997

Principal of Health Property & Precincts (HPP), Phillip Apelbaum, has been at the forefront of healthcare property and strategy in Australia since the late 1990s, well before healthcare was recognised as a distinct property sector.

Over this time, he has played a leading role in navigating and shaping the evolving healthcare landscape:

  • Driving the shift from individual General Practices to corporatised medical clinics.

  • Supporting the emergence of dedicated Healthcare Property Trusts.

  • Advising governments in relation to Health and Education Innovation Precincts.

  • Representing major healthcare operators in maximising the utility, profitability and future proofing of their sites.

  • Guiding Australia’s largest Retail Property Trusts to integrate healthcare in Centres and Mixed-Use precincts.

HPP continues to build on this legacy to create health environments that anticipate change, and foster innovation.

We deliver lasting value in places that matter today, tomorrow, and for decades to come.

Future Healthcare will integrate with other sectors and locations such as the following:

  • Retail Centres

  • Town Centres

  • Education Anchored Regions

  • Existing Healthcare Facilities

  • Innovation Precincts

  • Suburban Locations Experiencing Gentrification

  • New & Developing Suburbs

Future Proofing Healthcare & Communities

The future has arrived.

A period of global disruption is reshaping society and the world in which it lives. Historically, similar periods have generated significant opportunities. We only need to embrace these changes to innovate Australia’s health system; one in need of reinvigoration, realignment, and reshaping.

Several significant factors are challenging our health system.

  • An aging population

  • Longevity and immigration are further expanding the population

  • Increasing incidence of chronic disease

  • The rising cost of healthcare

  • Limited qualified healthcare providers

Conversely, factors such as Technology, Big Data, and advances in Life Sciences are improving patient care.

Patients and providers welcome these advances, which shorten hospital stays, promote quicker recovery, and allow providers to care for more patients.

The challenge has been, and will continue to be, integrating new systems and technologies into existing facilities.

Tomorrow’s healthcare spaces will be defined by the lives they enrich, the economies they strengthen, and the communities they connect

“Phillip brings a unique proposition to matching healthcare and real estate. His deep curiosity, understanding and passion for the relationship between real estate and the healthcare sector assisted us enormously in materially improving the quality of the property mix and cashflow in the IRAPT convenience and mixed-use portfolio over five years.

Phillip’s deep knowledge of healthcare industry legislation, motivations for policy and the operators’ behaviour from hospital through to GP’s, helped us understand how the sector operated and predict how real estate owners could successfully participate in the sector.”

—Cameron Gregson, Property Done Well | Capital & Investment Strategy | Retail, Mixed-Use & Logistics | Joint Venture Advisory