Carolyn Cummins is Commercial Property Editor for The Sydney Morning Herald.
The Sydney skyline is set to be transformed with the development of the new $500 million Ritz-Carlton hotel, including apartments and an updated restaurant strip at Pyrmont, as part of the Star Entertainment group's renovation of the city's main casino as it prepares to take on James Packer's Crown resort at Barangaroo.
In one of the biggest upheavals in its history, the National Australia Bank is moving its Sydney headquarters to the new $1.7 billion Wynyard Place, while also taking up a lease at Parramatta to cement its presence in the western suburbs.
Housing markets will retain their buoyancy for at least another year, but concerns of price bubbles loom large, according to the latest Australian Property Institute's Property Directions Survey.
Robots are the latest retail "disrupter" as they head to a shopping centre near you to offer advice, assistance and some entertainment.
Pub tsar Justin Hemmes has snapped up the Tennyson Hotel in Sydney's Botany Road, Mascot for $37.5 million - a record price for a hotel sale at a public auction.
Investors are scouring the inner west suburbs of Sydney to grab a piece of land for development in a market where stock levels are tightening, according to agents.
It was a frenzy of online shopping last weekend as Australian shoppers embraced the US tradition known as Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
A prominent Clovelly freehold building at 338-342 Clovelly Road, directly opposite the Clovelly Hotel, has been bought by a private investor and owner-occupier for $2.92 million.
One of the lead advisers to real estate group McGrath's float, Bell Potter, has taken the knife to its earnings forecasts and price target for the stock for the third time since its disappointing December 2015 listing.
The "will they, won't they" move on Investa Office Fund by its largest shareholder, Cromwell Corp, has thrown the spotlight on to the real estate investment trust sector, prompting speculation of a fresh round of mergers and acquisition activity in the coming year.
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