Yesterday
Vibrant CBD retail sector outperforms floundering office towers
New research shows core retail precincts in most CBDs have much lower vacancy rates than their corresponding office markets.
- Larry Schlesinger
This Month
Developer cashes in as investors spend $38m on fast food
A vacant Bunnings purchased for $35m in 2020 and redeveloped into a homemaker centre with fast food outlets has generated $95m in total real estate sales.
- Larry Schlesinger
July
‘Risks elevated’: APRA holds banks’ mortgage rate buffer at 3pc
APRA said an uncertain economy, geopolitical instability, high household debt and inflation remain key risks for banks, compelling it to keep the loan buffer intact.
- Updated
- James Eyers and Jonathan Shapiro
- Exclusive
- Commercial real estate
Leica backs Melbourne CBD revival with world’s biggest store
The famed German camera maker has transformed an entire building in the Melbourne CBD into a retail hub that includes an art gallery.
- Larry Schlesinger
Westfield’s Paris shopping centres bid for an Olympic leg-up
Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, the owner of Westfield malls in Europe, is looking for a spurt of extra visitors and a profit boost for its convention centres.
- Hans van Leeuwen
- Exclusive
- Shopping centres
Challenger sells Tasmanian mall for record price
The wealth giant has sold Channel Court, which is the largest sub-regional mall south of the Hobart CBD, for $82.5 million.
- Campbell Kwan
- Exclusive
- Restaurants
Crown offloads Nobu stake in deal valuing restaurant group at $1.3b
Blackstone-run Crown has had a 20 per cent stake in the acclaimed Japanese chain, part-owned by Robert De Niro, since James Packer bought in a decade ago.
- Nick Lenaghan and Matthew Cranston
Now is the time to buy commercial property, says this veteran analyst
Veteran real estate research analyst Sameer Chopra says population growth and the high cost of construction will lead to property values surging.
- Larry Schlesinger
June
Stirling Property in talks to buy HomeCo’s McGraths shopping centre
Street Talk understands the trust has been in discussions to offload its McGraths Hills centre in Sydney’s North West to Stirling Property Funds.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Bidding wars for bakery and vet as investors chase affordable assets
A Bakers Delight shop in Rosanna in Melbourne’s north-east sold for $943,000 on a low 3.9 per cent yield after 40 bids at a portfolio auction.
- Larry Schlesinger
ISPT to raise $250m for big push into small malls
ISPT head of funds management Matthew Brown says recent transactions have given the platform confidence that values are near the bottom of the cycle.
- Larry Schlesinger
Restaurants and pickleball in, bookstores out: shopping centres rebound
Shopping malls that survived the purge signed up tenants that would draw more shoppers and give them more reason to linger.
- Joe Gose
- Exclusive
- Commercial real estate
Region Group ends two-year drought with $74m mall deal
The country’s biggest owner of suburban malls has made its first acquisition in two years after buying Canberra’s Cooleman Court centre from Mirvac.
- Larry Schlesinger
Why owner-occupiers beat investors for industrial property
There’s a soft rebound coming in sub-$40 million commercial property as rates ease, but different sectors face their own challenges.
- Michael Bleby
May
- No.107
- Rich List
From refugee to Rich Lister: the incredible journey of Charlie Shahin
Shahin was born in Lebanon where his family, as Palestinian refugees, couldn’t own land. Now he has bought a million-acre NT cattle station.
- Updated
- Larry Schlesinger
Coles property boss says building woes could force up grocery prices
Coles property boss Fiona Mackenzie says not being able to deliver new supermarkets as planned could force up the prices of grocery items.
- Larry Schlesinger
Cobbler counts the cost of fewer feet as CBD economies lose $4.3b
Cities are getting 370,000 fewer office worker visits every day compared to pre-pandemic, which has led to CBD-based businesses struggling to make ends meet.
- Campbell Kwan
- Exclusive
- Leasing
UBS bets on co-working and bowling to fix troubled Melbourne mall
UBS has secured two big tenancies for St Collins Lane, an arcade in the Melbourne CBD that has been one of the city’s worst performing malls for years.
- Larry Schlesinger
Why Aesop is putting algae on its shopfronts
The upcoming Melbourne Design Week reveals ideas already in use that could change our world. But getting them to scale is no simple task.
- Michael Bleby
Developers cash in as investors spend big on fast food and childcare
Nearly $50m was splashed by investors at a commercial property auction in Sydney, of which almost half was spent on fast food outlets on long leases.
- Larry Schlesinger
