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Tarun Gupta

October

The federal government wants to build 1.2 million homes in the next five years.

Five fixes to the housing crisis – from smaller homes to more builders

From more migrants with building skills to incentivising different types of housing, three chief executives give their suggestions on how to develop more homes.

  • Campbell Kwan and James Eyers

September

Australia’s most powerful people in property for 2024

Interest rates and construction costs are wreaking havoc and creating new winners and losers. Perhaps the biggest power shift is the fading influence of the CFMEU.

  • Nick Lenaghan

September 2023

Australia’s five most powerful people in property for 2023

The sector has been riding the interest rate rollercoaster over the past year as housing supply moved to the top of the national agenda.

  • Nick Lenaghan

July 2023

CEW president Susan Lloyd-Hurwitz (left) with Macquarie Group CEO Shemara Wikramanayake on Thursday.

‘Step up and own it’: Macquarie CEO’s recipe for diversity in business

Shemara Wikramanayake, chief executive of Macquarie Group, says having culturally diverse leadership teams is good for business.

  • Sally Patten

February 2023

Stockland CEO Tarun Gupta says the company picked the top of the housing cycle in 2021 and has been cautious ever since.

This CEO picked the top of the property market, now he’s spending up

Stockland picked the top of the housing cycle in 2021. But now, with prices falling and buyers nervous, CEO Tarun Gupta is changing course and investing. 

  • James Thomson
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September 2022

Housing market will return to balance in 2024: Stockland CEO

Rising wages and falling prices will reduce affordability problems that are keeping buyers out of the new home market, Stockland’s Tarun Gupta says.

  • Nila Sweeney and Michael Bleby

February 2022

Stockland boss Tarun Gupta walks the talk on strategy.

Stockland CEO’s great strategic leap

Less than a year after joining Stockland from Lendlease, Tarun Gupta is executing a flurry of transformational deals.

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  • Tony Boyd

November 2021

Stockland CEO Tarun Gupta is reshaping the portfolio to accelerate investment in residential.

Stockland cranks up residential

Stockland will step up its competition with Mirvac and Meriton in apartment developments, anticipating a return to immigration of 200,000 a year by 2023.

  • Tony Boyd

Stockland to expand residential, cut retail as it shifts strategy

The country’s largest listed residential developer will also increase its office and logistics exposure to almost half of its net funds employed.

  • Michael Bleby

October 2021

Vivek Bhatia, Tarun Gupta and Vik Bansal.

‘I kept all my rejection letters’: Rise of the Australian-Indian CEOs

A growing number of Australia’s top business leaders are of South Asian heritage. They tell BOSS about their ambitions to learn and their hunger for success.

  • Patrick Durkin
“All Australians benefit, and it has been a key driver of Australia’s economic success, not to mention our multicultural community,” says Wesfarmers boss Rob Scott on immigration.

Calls to get ‘immigration going again’ get louder

Business leaders, economists and Infrastructure Australia back the need for a return to higher rates of migration to drive the post-pandemic recovery.

  • Jacob Greber
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COVID-19 has not killed off hot-desking, office bosses say

Don’t get too comfortable at your desk - one of Australia’s largest office landlords says activity-based working will come back after a few years of COVID-normality.

  • Michael Bleby

August 2021

Technology and COVID-19 have been the persistent topics this reporting season.

The CEOs using tech to cut out the middleman

More ASX-listed companies are implementing technologies that bring them closer to their customers to boost sales and avoid scattergun marketing campaigns.

  • Tony Boyd

July 2021

Came for the MBA... and the cricket: 
Tarun Gupta at Stockland’s head office on 21 June, 2021.

New Stockland CEO’s plan to house Australia

Tarun Gupta was inspired to study here by watching cricket on TV. Now, he leads a company that sells more than half its houses to first-generation Australians.

  • Michael Bleby

June 2021

Stockland chief executive Tarun Gupta.

Stockland boss says buyers want bigger homes, further out

The new head of the country’s largest residential developer expects the shift to master-planned communities to continue for the foreseeable future.

  • Michael Bleby
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January 2021

Stockland's chief executive Mark Steinert.

Tarun Gupta will run 'extremely hard' at Stockland, Steinert says

The outgoing chief executive says he expects his successor will conduct a full strategic review of all the company's operations.

  • Michael Bleby

November 2020

ASX slips 0.7pc in biggest fall this month

The Australian sharemarket snapped a three day winning streak as banks and miners weighed on the index. Bega acquired Lion for $560 million. Stockland appointed Tarun Gupta as its new CEO. Origin raised its gas production outlook.

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  • Robert Guy, Sarah Turner, William McInnes, Tom Richardson and Luke Housego

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