The proportion of first home buyers entering the property market has reached its highest level in five years after state and federal government intervention lifted the market out of a near-all-time low a year ago.
Cafes and car retailers are the new anchor tenants for shopping centres as owners seek ways to entice and then keep shoppers mooching around their malls.
Developers responding to reduced demand by reducing new supply means less chance of a fat overhang seriously damaging the market.
Thirty per cent of rental properties would be freed up and bought by Australians who would have otherwise rented.
The hotel sector is set for an even busier new year.
Approvals for the construction of new homes jumped by a surprise 11.7 per cent in November, driven by a spike in apartment and townhouse building in Melbourne.
Sydney property prices are tipped to pull back by up to 10 per cent over the next 12 to 18 months, experts warn, after real estate markets ended the year with a whimper.
Australia's infrastructure boom has kept Sydney's office rents the world's fastest growing for a second year.
The arrival of Amazon has thrown the spotlight onto the humble shed.
Australia's housing market is expected to continue to weaken during 2018 as tighter lending restrictions from banks start to bite.
A widening chasm between housing prices and rental cost could be a sign that a correction is right around the corner - and Australia is a far way off that, according to global ratings agency Moody's
Ardent Leisure sells last non-core assets
A $130 million MGallery by Sofitel hotel is to be constructed at Melbourne's sprawling Chadstone super-size shopping centre to cater for the expanding office and tourism trade in the area.
Housing investment will fall from record levels into negative rates of growth next year, according to the Turnbull government's mid-year budget outlook.
Dexus and Investa Office record strong asset valuations
Matt Moran and Bruce Solomon's Solotel, open the doors to Barangaoo House
Unibail-Rodmanco will keep the Westfield legacy alive
The same week Queen Elizabeth knighted him, the market crowned him the prince of property
ASX-listed office, retail and industrial behemoth GPT has parked plans to rollout 30 megawatts of solar capacity over dozens of rooftops.
Less than week after being knighted by the Queen, Australia's king of retail malls, Frank Lowy, is abdicating this throne.
A Fishermans Bend high-rise project has been given the green light after the developer took planning minister Richard Wynne to the tribunal.
Bankstown Sports Club in a $55 million upgrade
Mini golf course and cocktail bar, Holey Moley have leased a new space under the Coca Cola sign in Kings Cross.
Europe's largest listed commercial property company agreed to buy Sir Frank Lowy's Westfield Corp in a $US24.7 billion ($32.8 billion) deal.
The Aussie property boom is nearing its end, with housing price growth to run in the low single-digits in 2018, a leading economist says.
One in five apartments in Sydney is now occupied by couples with children.
It's official, the Barangaroo precinct has its own eco system.
Sydney's Sirius building set for a new era
Wellness, technology and human interaction are desired in offices.
Strata sales are on the rise.
Migrants run one in three Australian small businesses and research shows high levels of innovation and ambition.
Maybe baby syndrome occurs when decision-makers consider it a disadvantage if a female is likely to become pregnant.