The Sydney suburb where 99.9 per cent of people live in a flat
Sydney Olympic Park might have the highest density in all of Sydney but there are now 15 suburbs where 90 per cent or more of us live in an apartment.
Property
Sydney set to be hit with a flurry of new hotels
Sydney is to get a swath of new hotel rooms to cater for the growth of inbound tourism and the rise in demand from business travellers who want facilities close to the airport and accessible to the city.
Street where shops pay $20,000 just to rent a metre
The lack of supply due to construction works and increasing numbers of new brands looking for a shop has underpinned the prime retail sector in Sydney and led to a growth of about 10 per cent in rents, quarter on quarter.
'Blood, sweat, tears' - now Good Guys stores sell
The Muir family, who hit the jackpot with the sale of The Good Guys to JB Hi-Fi last year for $870 million, have added another $92 million to their fortune selling bulky goods stores leased to the retailer.
East Melbourne office market gets lift with new A-grade tower
The renaissance of East Melbourne's office market may be just around the corner after boutique developer Time & Place submitted plans for a 11-level office tower on the corner of Victoria Parade and Lansdowne Street.
Traditional fundamentals will dominate property trust reporting season
Takeovers of real estate investment trusts at the smaller end of the index are dominating the headlines in the lead-up to the full-year reporting season.
First Vic retail deal for the year lures NSW buyer
A NSW-based investor has splashed out $30.38 million on the Lakeside Square shopping centre in Pakenham in the first major retail deal for the year.
Values in Cremorne's commercial sector soaring
An owner-occupier has paid $3.75 million for a strata office at Cremorne, which previously sold just eight months ago in November for $3.15 million.
Malaysian developer targets Southbank owner-occupiers
Malaysian developer OSK Property is firmly staking its $2.8 billion mixed-use complex Melbourne Square on a rise in owner-occupier demand with 78 per cent of apartments offered having two or more bedrooms.
The fine print in JB Hi-Fi's penalty rates move
JB Hi-Fi chief executive Richard Murray remarked in January at the KPMG's Couta Boats regatta that he would like to see penalty rates on Saturdays and Sundays "better aligned".
RBA afraid of blowing up 'housing powder keg'
The Reserve Bank will keep official interest rates unchanged until at least next year, says Deloitte.
House price growth to slow further but not crash: UBS
Economists at investment bank UBS are increasingly confident a "correction" is taking place in residential construction, led by a slowdown in the apartment sector.
Exchange House could reap $130m for owners
The dash for high-end office towers has seen more than $4 billion worth of asset change hands along the Eastern seaboard in the past two months, triggered by the strength in the underlying leasing market.
Real estate high-flyers face bullying claim
Commercial real estate group Knight Frank Australia is facing allegations senior staff bullied the agency's former national head of research and consulting.
Hundreds of buyers in limbo as skyscraper fight gets ugly
A bitter, protracted legal stoush between two deep-pocketed Singaporean property owners has stalled a 71-storey skyscraper planned for Melbourne, leaving hundreds of apartment owners in limbo.
Being on the fringe is very popular
Investors have earmarked beachside suburbs as offering the best growth potential
Property trusts in race to reporting season
It has been a busy start to the new financial year with capital raisings, takeovers and flat trading conditions for some of the development-focused real estate investment trusts.
William Inglis & Son to build $140 million complex
Sydney's Warwick Farm is to be the home of the latest upmarket hotel
Melbourne apartment laws could save Sydneysiders' cash
After an examination of the NSW Government's 'Apartment Design Guide' the Victorian Government issued their own 'Better Apartment Design Standards' on April 13 this year.
Deals and Deeds
Annabelle Boyd has sold a 349 sqm site at 374 Pacific Highway, Lindfield to SNP Investments for $4.8 million.
Popup Brands rebrands to SpaceBook
Popup Brands, Australia's first online short-term space rental market, has rebranded as SpaceBook.
Places Vic selling central Footscray site
Ten months after putting it to the market – Places Victoria is believed to have sold a central and permit-ready Footscray site, its second divestment in the suburb in 18 months.
Premium turnover at 100 Collins as Melbourne catches up with Sydney
Several floors in one of Melbourne's earliest modernist buildings on Collins Street have changed hands this month pushing the city's strata values closer to Sydney levels.
Church engages with community and landscape
This Catholic church in Whitehorse Road, Deepdene, was reasonably intact when Law Architects first inspected the site.
Ardent launches scathing attack on raider Ariadne
Ardent Leisure, owner of the Gold Coast-based Dreamworld theme park, has unleashed a return volley of fire at its hostile shareholder, the corporate raider, Ariadne.
Retail and office assets top yield hunter's shopping lists
Overseas-based investors are stepping up the competition to domestic players in the race to buy the $3 billion Blackstone retail property platform.
Small investors set petrol stations alight
Cadence Property Group has sold a 7-Eleven petrol station off-the-plan for $5.41 million as service stations and convenience stores with long leases continue to attract small investors.
Industrial development land in investors' sights
The investment market for industrial property is the strongest that developers and agents say they have seen for many years.
Struggling Chinese owner of Darwin Port offloads Melbourne property
The heavily-indebted Chinese owner of Darwin Port, who is struggling to make payments on money borrowed to pay for the port lease, is offloading two large development sites in Melbourne worth $40 million.
Russo's Caydon snaps up Northcote site
Caydon Property Group has snapped up a permit-approved apartment development site off market in Northcote for $4.05 million.
Small Business
Small business gouged and hung out to dry in Australia's energy crisis
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