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Scentre CEO Elliott Rusanow.

Westfield Bondi owner says shoppers are back after horror attack

Scentre chief executive Elliott Rusanow said the mall operator had increased security spending as it returned to a “different” normal after the fatal attack.

  • Campbell Kwan
Matt Carolan in Sydney, where his new platform will focus its initial efforts.

Dutch pension fund giant puts $700m into Sydney build-to-rent start-up

Apt.Residential has won the backing of PGGM, which has committed $700m to the rollout of 2500 apartments.

  • Larry Schlesinger

Why $800,000 homes are in hot demand

Competitive pressure is building up in this segment of the market as investors and first-home buyers return in droves.

  • Nila Sweeney

Government’s $91m tradie plan only ‘modest’ boost for home building

Australia’s target of 1.2 million new homes is a crisis of surging demand and a construction workforce facing its own demographic challenges.

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  • Michael Bleby

Property giant GPT slammed as too ‘woke’ for growth

GPT’s chair Vickki McFadden has defended the company’s efforts on environmental and social issues at its annual shareholder meeting.

  • Nick Lenaghan

How Goodman Group’s data centre dream could be super-sized

The next generation of data centres will require even more land. That’s something Greg Goodman says his group can provide. 

  • James Thomson

How it Sold

First cab off the rank: The investment property at 5 Pauls Drive, Valley View, was the first to be auctioned and reached a price of $885,000 before they paused and started selling the neighbouring home.

The complicated $1.8m sale of a ‘gamble’ that didn’t pay off

A suburban family bought their neighbours’ house to give them a larger block, but when interest rates went up further something had to give.

  • Michael Bleby
Vendor David Milton more than doubled his money on this Neutral Bay apartment in Sydney’s lower north shore.

Real estate agent doubles his money by selling own apartment for $6.5m

There’s a national shortage of suitable units for downsizers, so a man who sells them for a living has just sold his own home – at quite a profit.

  • Michael Bleby

Luxury Property

Liberman family to sell $17m Toorak ‘treehouse’

A glass and steel modernist retreat designed by Robin Boyd has joined Toorak’s prestige market with a guide of $15.9 million to $17 million.

  • Bonnie Campbell
AFR, 40 Hudson Parade, Clareville, NSW
Supplied 10th May 2024

Simon and Catriona Mordant shoot for record with $16m trophy weekender

The Sydney power couple have listed their Clareville waterfront, which is expected to reset the suburb record.

  • Bonnie Campbell
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Liberman family to sell $17m Toorak ‘treehouse’

A glass and steel modernist retreat designed by Robin Boyd has joined Toorak’s prestige market with a guide of $15.9 million to $17 million.

  • Bonnie Campbell
AFR, 40 Hudson Parade, Clareville, NSW
Supplied 10th May 2024

Simon and Catriona Mordant shoot for record with $16m trophy weekender

The Sydney power couple have listed their Clareville waterfront, which is expected to reset the suburb record.

  • Bonnie Campbell

AI pioneers pay $12.45m for harbourside penthouse

Appen founders Chris and Julie Vonwiller have joined a trend of “discerning down-sizers” seeking large apartments.

  • Bonnie Campbell
Investor Daniel Besen has run into a little strife with the neighbour’s renovations.

Daniel Besen’s mansion gets craned

You might buy a $20 million trophy home with all the bells and whistles you can hope for. But who says someone won’t, one day, drop a crane on it. 

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  • Myriam Robin

Cotton On CFO lists Melbourne mansion with a contemporary twist

Cotton On CFO Michael Hardwick and his wife Diana have put their Melbourne mansion on the market guiding up to $13.75m after a major renovation.

  • Bonnie Campbell
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Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas is banking on property taxes. But has he got the mix right?

Victoria cannot tax its way to prosperity

Victoria arguably has some of the most complex rules and highest property tax imposts in the country. Will it work?

  • Matthew Cridland

Melbourne shuns office return, Sydney coaxed by redundancy fears

New figures also show Canberra has the second-lowest office attendance rates as public service workers do not face the same scrutiny as Sydney’s private sector.

  • Campbell Kwan
CEO Greg Goodman.  The China market is weaker.

Goodman warns on China as data centre push gathers speed

Occupancy across Goodman’s China portfolio was 93 per cent over the March quarter, compared with 98 per cent across its overall portfolio.

  • Larry Schlesinger

Investors Mutual CEO sells designer Sydney mansion for $23m

Damon Hambly and designer Philippa Haydon bought the Bellevue Hill property for just $3.7 million in 2010 and turned it into a trophy home.

  • Bonnie Campbell
The portfolio includes a 115,000 sq m Metcash distribution centre in Melbourne.

Rest Super, Barings snaffle $780m Goodman industrial portfolio

The Australian super fund and US investment manager have acquired 12 properties in Sydney and Melbourne, leased to the likes of Amazon and Metcash.

  • Larry Schlesinger
Buyer demand is expected to stay resilient despite interest rates staying higher for longer.

Pace of house price growth to cool as risks emerge

House prices have recouped the interest rate-induced losses in the past two years and are poised to hit record highs this year, but downside risks are gathering pace, according to experts.

  • Nila Sweeney
Rajeev Menon outside the new Adelaide Marriott which will open in August

Loyalty program a huge driver of occupancy at Marriott hotels

More than one in two hotel rooms booked in Australia come through Marriott’s loyalty program, says Asia Pacific boss Raj Menon.

  • Larry Schlesinger
Vicinity, ISPT offload Halls Head mall had spent over $70 million on the asset but has only received that much back in a sale of the asset.

Vicinity, ISPT offload WA mall for $70m, taking capital loss

The Halls Head Central shopping centre was once valued at $114 million.

  • Campbell Kwan
Amid a surge in Perth property prices, the WA government will give owners of vacant homes $5000 if they make them available for long-term renters.

Landlords offered $5000 lure for housing fix

Amid a surge in Perth property prices, the WA government will give owners of vacant homes $5000 if they make them available for long-term renters.

  • Tom Rabe
AFR

Victoria adds $700m to home buyer scheme – and calls time on it

There were minimal housing policies in the Victorian budget, but the state government is hopeful of a pick-up in sales next year to boost its finances.

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  • Michael Bleby
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The concept for the new flagshp store took 18 months to develop.

Why Michael Hill chose Chadstone to sell $1m diamond earrings

Michael Hill’s global flagship store will open in Melbourne’s biggest mall Chadstone, and will include a $1m pair of yellow diamond drop earrings.

  • Larry Schlesinger
Downcast: Property market-reliant Victoria is in for a ‘challenging’ budget on Tuesday.

Victoria has become a poor state: economist Saul Eslake

The southern state’s high dependence on property and population growth has a fallout felt beyond its borders.

  • Michael Bleby
First cab off the rank: The investment property at 5 Pauls Drive, Valley View, was the first to be auctioned and reached a price of $885,000 before they paused and started selling the neighbouring home.

The complicated $1.8m sale of a ‘gamble’ that didn’t pay off

A suburban family bought their neighbours’ house to give them a larger block, but when interest rates went up further something had to give.

  • Michael Bleby
Broadacre farm values could rise by about 5 per cent this year, Rabobank forecasts.

Farm land price growth to ease to 5pc in 2024 as rural incomes fall

Price growth this year is expected to be less than half the near 11 per cent achieved in 2023, as a three-year agricultural boom fades.

  • Larry Schlesinger
Many developers, spurred by the pandemic to invest money in new self-storage facilities, have been caught short by a drop in demand.

Americans went all-in on self-storage. That demand is suddenly cooling

One of the reasons for the drop in demand for self-storage units is that people aren’t relocating as much as they did during the pandemic.

  • Martha C. White