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Blundy puts $230m NT cattle station portfolio on the market
The offering includes Walhallow station south-east of Darwin, which the billionaire acquired from Macquarie Group’s Paraway Pastoral for a then record $100 million.
- Larry Schlesinger
WA Museum Boola Bardip enlivens Perth city centre
The public museum cleaned up the WA architecture awards but private hospitality projects also showed the power of breathing new life into old buildings.
- Michael Bleby
Large Lancelin landholding hits market, north of Perth
Around 100 kilometres from the Perth CBD, the property stretches from the fishing and holiday community of Lancelin South to Breton Bay.
- Nick Lenaghan
Apartment vendors gain the upper hand
Growing demand from cashed-up investors and first home buyers frustrated in the detached housing market has prompted apartment vendors to lift their asking prices.
- Nila Sweeney
High-net-worth investor-backed fund buys Wollongong pub for $21m
The renovated Five Islands Hotel in Cringila was bought by publican Paddy Coughlan’s new venture Ludlow Hospitality, which he established in October last year.
- Larry Schlesinger
Barwon launches disability housing fund
The shortfall between the limited supply of suitable disability housing and the demand from NDIS participants has created the opportunity for private sector involvement.
- Nick Lenaghan
How it Sold
It’s still a seller’s market on Mornington Peninsula
The $6 million sale of a subdivided block – despite all the buyer’s arguments it was overpriced – shows where the power lies in one part of the market.
- Michael Bleby
‘Fear of paying too much’ stops Sydney auctions cold
In the Emerald City, vendors’ price hopes keep growing. But, increasingly, buyers aren’t willing to play that game any more.
- Michael Bleby
Luxury Property
It’s still a seller’s market on Mornington Peninsula
The $6 million sale of a subdivided block – despite all the buyer’s arguments it was overpriced – shows where the power lies in one part of the market.
- Michael Bleby
Melbourne mansion sells for $2.75m above reserve
The five-bedroom, three-bathroom deceased estate in one of the most prestigious streets in the elite suburb of Toorak fetched $14.25 million at auction.
- Rachel Wells
Yesterday
How investing in warehouses paid off for Amazon’s landlord
If the warehouse was once derided in the property world as ‘four walls and a roof’, it has become a sensation over the past year.
- Joshua Chaffin
- Opinion
- Rural property
Wind farm dispute: are tenant’s fixtures ‘land’?
Farmers who are considering leasing their land to wind or solar farm operators will have to consider the potential implications of a NSW Supreme Court decision involving Taralaga wind farm.
- Matthew Cridland
Amazon says remote work is OK two days a week
Amazon shifted its stance after a backlash from corporate employees against the expectation of a return to full-time office work once coronavirus restrictions are lifted.
- Katherine Anne Long, Heidi Groover, Paul Roberts and The Seattle Times
It’s still a seller’s market on Mornington Peninsula
The $6 million sale of a subdivided block – despite all the buyer’s arguments it was overpriced – shows where the power lies in one part of the market.
- Michael Bleby
Melbourne mansion sells for $2.75m above reserve
The five-bedroom, three-bathroom deceased estate in one of the most prestigious streets in the elite suburb of Toorak fetched $14.25 million at auction.
- Rachel Wells
This Month
Macquarie seals Vitalharvest takeover after Roc outmuscled
Macquarie has won the battle for Vitalharvest, but its victory came at a significant premium - units in the fruit orchard trust rose 33 per cent during the bidding war with Roc.
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- Larry Schlesinger
Adelaide’s oldest theatre, newest casino top SA architecture awards
Designs that breathed new life into the city’s longest-running arts venue and the peaceful interior of a new casino bar stood out this year.
- Michael Bleby
Grollo family sells Footscray office building to Centuria for $224m
Melbourne’s Grollo family has exited an investment it has held since 2014, selling to Centuria Capital Group for $224 million.
- Martin Kelly
Victoria posts a 45.3pc jump in new house sales
Sales of new homes rebounded by 15.2 per cent in May, as buyer confidence fuelled strong demand even without the HomeBuilder stimulus.
- Nila Sweeney
Macquarie lifts Vitalharvest stake to block Roc bid
Macquarie may have landed a decisive blow in the battle for Vitalharvest after acquiring a 20.9 per cent blocking stake and matching Roc’s latest offer for the trust.
- Larry Schlesinger
Lendlease sharpens global focus in Lombardo’s reshuffle
The new chief executive has promoted his closest rivals for the job to play bigger roles in the changing company.
- Michael Bleby
The Sydney house expected to smash its suburb record
One of Maroubra’s largest properties, which has been listed for expressions of interest, is expected to obliterate the area’s $14 million high.
- Kate Burke
Sales and search volumes plummet as winter sets in
Home sales slumped in the last week of May, with Victoria and Canberra posting a more than 32 per cent decline from the pre-Easter peak.
- Nila Sweeney
Melbourne the office laggard even before the last lockdown
While Melbourne’s lockdown will be lifted in the main from midnight on Friday, the southern capital was already trailing its interstate peers in a CBD recovery.
- Nick Lenaghan
Owners head for the exit at $1.8b Pacific Fair mall
The potential full sell-down of one of the Gold Coast’s best-known shopping centres will carry significant implications for the broader sector, as well as for fund manager AMP Capital.
- Nick Lenaghan
NHFIC’s latest $462m social bond raise takes three-year tally to $2b
Demand is outstripping supply for social bonds issued by the National Housing Finance and Investment Corporation, used to fund social and affordable housing.
- Martin Kelly
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- Property development
‘Mr Port Douglas’ embarks on his latest project, aged 93
John Morris’s latest project of 20 luxury villas will cater to the next wave of interstate arrivals seeking an escape from city life in idyllic Port Douglas.
- Larry Schlesinger
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- Property market
Housing markets boom – and so does underquoting
The perennial problem of underquoting is worse than ever in the current market, despite efforts by authorities to stamp it out, buyers’ agents say.
- Michael Bleby
Developer Hickory moves into data centres
It seems like a stretch but not so, says Hickory Director Michael Argyrou about his company’s expansion into the high-tech world.
- Martin Kelly
