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What does a “higher-for-longer” world mean for the property sector?
The Property Summit gathers the industry’s most influential leaders, investors, commentators and disruptors to discuss the trends, threats and opportunities in commercial and residential sectors.
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Join the Financial Review’s Property Summit to explore how a higher-for-longer world will affect Australia’s crucial property market.
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High rates forcing indebted home owners to sell: RBA
Highly leveraged borrowers are selling out of property and consolidating their savings into offset accounts, RBA assistant governor Christopher Kent says.
- Michael Read
The next home-building boom is coming
Despite higher borrowing and construction costs, increasing demand for new housing will draw out capital – but not from first home buyers.
- Michael Bleby
Property profits hit 14-year high
The share of profitable home sales would likely increase further in the June quarter as values continue to rise, CoreLogic says.
- Nila Sweeney
Rich Listers sign up Marriott for $500m Gold Coast marina project
Marriott will operate the new Marina Mirage hotel under its Luxury Collection brand after signing an agreement with developers the Makris family.
- Larry Schlesinger
Banks’ pullback from offices, hotels opens door for non-bank lenders
With the bank sector reducing exposure to assets like commercial property, residential subdivisions and tourism, alternative players can now grab them.
- Larry Schlesinger
June
Why AustralianSuper isn’t investing in build to rent
The head of the country’s largest industry super fund says risk and scale are crucial factors for any investment it considers – and that’s an issue with BTR.
- Michael Bleby
Post-pandemic demand for Australian housing softens
Overseas interest in Australian residential real estate softened in the six months to December, according to new Treasury figures of Foreign Investment Review Board applications.
- Michael Bleby and Tom McIlroy
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Why the office property market is still in real pain
Sliding valuations in Australian office real estate means the debate about whether the sector has hit the bottom will rage on.
- James Thomson
Sydney house prices tipped to rise 8pc to $1.76m median in 12 months
House prices across Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide are predicted to hit records within 12 months, but Melbourne and Canberra will fall short, Domain says.
- Nila Sweeney
- Opinion
- NSW budget
Mookhey may need a wages miracle to land this budget
NSW is sucking extra tax out of the asset-rich, property-owning class that has enjoyed a massive asset price boom, to spend more on government services, housing and public sector employees.
- John Kehoe
Construction insolvencies will level out, CBA says
After a few torrid years of collapses among builders and subcontractors, there are signs that conditions are going to normalise.
- Michael Bleby
NSW’s ambitious plan to build 30,000 new homes
The NSW government will intervene in the construction sector by releasing surplus land that will be used for home building.
- Campbell Kwan
What does a “higher-for-longer” world mean for the property sector?
The Property Summit gathers the industry’s most influential leaders, investors, commentators and disruptors to discuss the trends, threats and opportunities in commercial and residential sectors.
- Opinion
- Superannuation
Five reasons to give first home buyers access to super
If a person owns their house it is equivalent to having sufficient superannuation to service rent for the rest of their lives. Thus, far from eroding superannuation, it is a core part of retirement savings.
- Mark Humphery-Jenner
‘Stealth’ land tax could drive investors from NSW and push up rents
Propertybuyer founder Rich Harvey says the land tax threshold freezes are a tax grab and he is “thinking twice” about buying more properties in NSW.
- Campbell Kwan and Nila Sweeney
WeWork has emerged from bankruptcy. What’s next?
The company’s re-emergence from bankruptcy arrives at a time when demand for office space remains weak overall.
- Wyatte Grantham-Philips
Why house prices are surging once again around the world
In Australia, the US and parts of Europe, property markets have shrugged off higher interest rates to post strong gains – and there’s likely more to come.
- The Economist
Prepare for building inflation to surge again
After a lull in infrastructure and construction, cost escalation is about to pick up, driven this time by local demand, wages and changing technology.
- Michael Bleby
Shock property tax rise hits landlords, holiday homes
Investment properties in NSW will be hit by a $1.5 billion increase in land taxes, which the real estate industry warns could cost thousands of dollars a year and be passed on to renters.
- John Kehoe
PEXA drags feet on breaking up its own monopoly, pleasing investors
While shareholders are hopeful of overseas riches, the property settlement platform is facing the threat of its stranglehold on e-conveyancing being broken.
- Jemima Whyte
- Opinion
- Governance
In the end, complexity felled the Lendlease empire
Lendlease was globally recognised for engineering excellence, its ability to build thriving community spaces, and its nurturing of many leading CEOs. Its diminution is instructive as well.
- Tony Boyd
- Exclusive
- Industrial
More cold sheds needed to supply veg and meds
Australia will have to ramp up its construction of cold storage sheds to service the food supply needs of our booming population, says CBRE.
- Larry Schlesinger
Home ownership is this Labor treasurer’s great middle-class goal
NSW Treasurer Daniel Mookhey, who hands down his second budget on Tuesday, says building wealth and financial security through home ownership must be a core objective of the modern Labor Party.
- John Kehoe
Why this top 100 CEO goes undercover shopping
Melbourne’s Chadstone shopping centre showcases the very latest in fashion. It’s also a test case for how the big mall owners manage their vast real estate.
- Nick Lenaghan
‘Impossibly unaffordable’ housing a social risk: report
The level of housing price relative to incomes poses an “existential” risk and demands a rethink of urban growth boundaries, a new global report says.
- Michael Bleby