February 2024
- Opinion
- Office
Five A-REITs worth a second look
While the glory days of real estate investment trusts may over, the sector will surely stage a comeback.
- Elio D'Amato
June 2023
Former mall king gets his bonus erased
Former Vicinity Centres chief executive Grant Kelley has had almost $4 million of unvested stock rubbed out by Vicinity Centres.
- Mark Di Stefano
January 2022
- Analysis
- Mergers & acquisitions
How Newcrest was almost drawn into a $US20b megamerger
Australia’s biggest gold miner rediscovered its mojo during Peter Hay’s eight years as chairman, but the company was nearly lost into an American merger.
- Updated
- Peter Ker
August 2021
Vicinity reins in loss as rent collection lifts
Managing director Grant Kelley has flagged a strategy revamp to include more mixed-use development and funds management.
- Nick Lenaghan
- Opinion
- Smart Investor
In a raging bull market, keep your head
In this market, there’s sense in Napoleon Bonaparte’s strategy.
- Stewart Oldfield
February 2021
Rich Lister Con Makris exits two Adelaide malls
The billionaire has divested two shopping centres in Adelaide for a combined value of $110 million, winding back further his retail real estate footprint in the inner-city.
- Nick Lenaghan
August 2020
Why the long game has just begun in landlords v retailers
The affordable family car opened the way for the suburban shopping centre. Now technology, in the form of online shopping, is remaking the retail industry, writes Robert Harley.
- Robert Harley
July 2020
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
What earnings season will reveal about corporate Australia
The write-downs we've already seen from the ASX 100 show what's coming this earnings season. Investors should watch closely, as they're bigger than COVID-19.
- Updated
- James Thomson
- Exclusive
- Rural property
Robert Champion de Crespigny snaps up Kelley's SA farm
Robert Champion de Crespigny's BPC Maylands has bought the Kelley family's Maylands sheep station in the Fleurieu Peninsula for about $20 million.
- Larry Schlesinger
June 2020
Vicinity proves Chinese wall is strong at Credit Suisse
Credit Suisse's analyst was apparently the last to know the investment bank was raising $1.2 billion for the shopping centre giant.
- Joe Aston
April 2020
Vicinity reopens Emporium Melbourne
Company's decision comes as the national mood swings to easing pandemic restrictions.
- Nick Lenaghan
February 2020
- Opinion
- Property market
What we learnt in property this reporting season
The earnings period showed up all the old – as well as a number of new – challenges for the sector, writes Rob Harley.
- Robert Harley
- Exclusive
- Retail property
GIC to exit iconic Myer Melbourne store
The mooted departure comes amid broader ructions in the retail property sector with big shifts in investment exposures taking place globally.
- Nick Lenaghan and Ingrid Fuary-Wagner
December 2019
Vicinity picks up 50pc of Melbourne outlet mall for $68m
Vicinity Centres will rebrand Uni Hill Factory Outlets as a DFO once the deal settles next year as it reworks its $16 billion portfolio.
- Larry Schlesinger
November 2019
- Exclusive
- Property development
Poly Australia buys Wentworthville Mall for 500-apartment project
The 5400sq m "ghost mall" was underutilised and occupied by small local retailers.
- Su-Lin Tan