Investors not put off by rising vacancy on suburban shopping strips

Melbourne's once-coveted retail strips are struggling to reinvent themselves and fill empty shops, with almost one in six vacant on key strips like Chapel Street and Bridge Road.

Sharp jump in property owners failing to pay rates

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Melbourne's apartment boom has resulted in soaring numbers of central city property owners defaulting on rate notices.

Travelodge hotel in Docklands sells for $107m

Listed Singapore property developer Sing Holdings has snapped up a Travelodge hotel in Melbourne's Docklands for $107 million.

7-Eleven closes stores in wake of wages scandal

Convenience store king 7-Eleven is quietly re-weighting its property portfolio in the wake of a recent wages scandal.

Good karma as investors fish for boutique city buildings

Jim Allen has owned Tavistock House since 1993. "It's got good karma," says Mr Allen about his building. It was once the home of one of Melbourne's first pubs.

Gina Rinehart bids for Australia's largest cattle station company, S. Kidman & Co

Australia's richest woman has reached an agreement to purchase one of the country's largest cattle stations for $365 million just months after federal treasurer Scott Morrison knocked back Chinese buyers on "national interest" grounds.

Ford's sites will take time to break up and sell

Ford faces a long and costly process to decommission its manufacturing plants before it can sell its large landholdings on Melbourne's outskirts in Campbellfield and Geelong.

Super money crowd funding property developments

Self managed super funds are growing their investments in crowd-funded and syndicated development projects, developer OpenCorp says.

Deakin Uni moves into Collins Square

Billionaire developer Lang Walker has snared another tenant for his $2.5 billion Collins Square precinct, securing a major tenancy with the corporate education arm of Deakin University.