This Month
Send workers back to the office, urges lord mayor
Shoppers, diners and pedestrians throng the CBD, but not enough workers are checking into offices. That’s a problem for the city’s economy, says Nick Reece.
October 2024
How the next mayor of Melbourne will fix the city
A special economic zone, payroll tax relief, free coffee and back-to-the-office mandates are among the pro-business policies being touted by mayoral candidates.
August 2024
Young fogeys of Melbourne’s private clubs unite!
It’s hard being counter-cultural, so Melbourne’s most privileged conservative young men have decided to band together.
June 2024
Smallest block in Chatswood sets a street record at $2m
Listings in Sydney and Melbourne fell to their lowest level since Easter, but auction numbers are due to jump dramatically this week before the winter slowdown.
March 2024
Former Gillard adviser to become Melbourne lord mayor after Capp exits
Ex-Labor insider Nicholas Reece will take over from Sally Capp in June but will face stiff competition for the job later this year.
February 2024
Syrian billionaire ‘very keen’ on Melbourne CBD hotel opportunity
Melbourne is the “missing piece” in Dubai-based billionaire Ghassan Aboud Crystalbrook Collection hotel group, which owns and operates a $1bn portfolio.
August 2023
Airbnb providers in Melbourne face $350 fee by February
Tuesday’s vote puts Melbourne on a similar track to councils in Hobart and Brisbane and widens the gap with Airbnb, which wants a state government levy.
July 2023
‘No-brainer’: why many investors prefer Airbnb over long-term rentals
The share accommodation giant is coming under pressure from a wave of local councils that are trying to bring more homes into the long-term rental market.
June 2023
Melbourne’s mayor wants Airbnb owners to shift to long-term rentals
If it moves to crack down on Airbnb accommodation, the City of Melbourne would be the biggest council to do so in the state.
Lendlease to take on $1.7b Queen Victoria Market redevelopment
The City of Melbourne has awarded its largest ever urban renewal project, for redevelopment of the 140-year-old site, to the ASX-listed developer.
April 2023
Top bureaucrat makes Canberra encore to help solve education turmoil
Former Canberra bureaucrat Ben Rimmer has returned to lead the development of the government’s higher education and research reforms.
March 2023
I feel immense pressure to reinvent myself, says superstar UK chef
Jeremy Chan of London sensation Ikoyi will plan menus on the fly at the Melbourne Food & Wine Festival. But that’s just the way this polyglot philosopher likes it.
January 2023
Melbourne shoppers spend more as city hums back to life
Shoppers in the Victorian capital spent more than in December than the same time in 2019, despite overall traffic still being down, in a sign the city is roaring back to life.
November 2022
Business groups at odds with Andrews over CBD revival
Business groups want a clear plan to encourage office workers back to Melbourne’s CBD, but Premier Daniel Andrews warns that pressuring staff could encourage them to quit.
Melbourne CBD’s slow return to normal after ‘seismic’ lockdowns
A poll last week found 62 per cent of Victorians say Melbourne’s CBD is worse than pre-COVID-19, but while some restaurants bemoan conditions others are booked out.
July 2021
Melbourne, Sydney CBDs will need four years to recover from lockdown
Sydney and Melbourne CBDs will take four years or more to pass their pre-pandemic economic levels, analysis by Deloitte Access Economics has found.
April 2021
Riverlee’s Seafarers development sales top $100m
A new precinct on the Yarra’s northern edge is taking shape but still has to overcome being cut off from Docklands and the CBD.
March 2021
Design week’s $50m pitch to investors
Melbourne’s annual exhibition of design and architecture is making a push for investment in projects showing how to the city’s power, waste and water usage can be transformed.
October 2020
Melbourne comes to life as restrictions lift
After 112 days of lockdown, shopping and dining strips across Melbourne sprung to life on Tuesday as business owners scrambled to ready their stores for reopening.
The high cost of losing the Crown
A forced sale in a company facing increasing regulatory risk deprives James Packer of any premium that might otherwise be attached to such a large stake.