NAB’s Jason Lipp talking at the Australian Property Institute conference.

QUEENSLAND property valuers have gathered in Toowoomba today to discuss the road ahead after a couple of years of booming values.

The Australian Property Institute, which is the industry body representing valuers across all sectors, held its Qld Rural conference.

Plenty were asking questions about the potential impact of increasing interest rates and whether that was going to have an impact on property sales going forward. The general consensus was that good properties were still selling well.

Looking ahead, there was plenty of talk about of renewable energy infrastructure – with representatives from transmission line service Powerlink and consulting firms dealing with acquisitions both addressing.

Green loans, carbon projects and how the role of the banking sector were also on the program.

JLL’s Doug Knight with Jonathan Fordyce from CBRE and Matthew Bardsley from JLL.

Commonwealth’s John Hack with Malcolm Malone and Shaun Hendy from Hendy Malone Agribusiness Valuation Advisory.

Ram N from API with Guy Dickenson from carbon trading service Clima.

James Bomford and Kerry Fritz from the Department of Resources.

Warwick Coverdale and Angus Hutchinson from the Department of Resources.