October 2024
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.
September 2024
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.
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.
July 2023
‘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.
February 2023
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.
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.
February 2022
Stockland CEO’s great strategic leap
Less than a year after joining Stockland from Lendlease, Tarun Gupta is executing a flurry of transformational deals.
November 2021
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.
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.
October 2021
‘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.
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.
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.
August 2021
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.
July 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.
June 2021
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.
January 2021
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.
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.