As a suburban Brisbane boy, Scott Ponton’s destiny of leading the Queensland charge of the country’s burgeoning build-to-rent property asset class was clearly sealed.

“My father was a builder-developer and I grew up in a block of eight flats in the western suburbs of Brisbane at Corinda,” the Arklife founder and managing director says.

“Dad owned all those flats and my brother and I, on Saturday mornings, would go and collect the rent.