Many offer customers a variety of assistance, including advice on how to advertise, design a flier, complete the required paperwork, prepare a property so it shows well and act as a host for open houses.
The transportation authority expects that it will take 18 months after that to prepare the property for construction, and two to three years and about $1.5 billion to build platforms and foundations over the railyards.
Intellispace is one of dozens of companies to which building managers are turning to prepare their properties for the high-tech future, providing telecommunications services to their tenants.
Lapsley said a fire at Carrum Downs, on Melbourne's eastern fringes, on Wednesday showed that even people in metropolitan areas could be affected by bushfires, and should prepare their properties accordingly.
With the destruction wrought by Cyclone Laurence in 2009 still fresh in their minds, residents, business owners, and farmers worked hurriedly to prepare their properties and livestock for Lua's onslaught.
Community education had a limited effect on the extent to which residents prepared their property hence a limited effect on the reduction in risk of house loss, however hypothetically improving property preparedness did reduce the risk of house loss.
Also, a "pocket park" was created on the tip of the point of land where construction vehicles are now busily at work, preparing the property for construction.
The developer, the Forest City Ratner Companies, has begun preparing the property to make way for a 22-acre complex that will include more than 6,000 apartments, a basketball arena and office space.
The government should "earnestly investigate and prepare for the property tax to be introduced," possibly on a pilot basis initially, Mr. Jia said.
