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Connect Central Sydney has sold for $330 million.

Brookfield sells $330m logistics estate 3 months after it was built

Local player Gateway Capital has partnered with two global funds in the race for position in one of the world’s tightest markets for logistics properties.

Greg Goodman has made a big pivot to data centres.

Goodman Group’s monster raising dials data centres strategy up to 100

Investors and analysts have lapped up the company’s pivot into data centres, one of the hottest subsectors in the world, and now it is finally time to help fund it.

At least 50 basis point cut needed to boost housing demand: Stockland

The diversified developer says new home buyer appetite picked up before Tuesday’s rate cut, but further monetary policy easing is crucial.

Goodman flags $4b raising for data centres, warehouses

The industrial property giant’s focus is turning increasingly to data centres, which now represent 46 per cent of its $13 billion workbook.

Mirvac says middle ring housing demand is booming

The diversified developer, builder and landlord claimed a ‘solid’ result in a market that is still recovering.

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A plot of land in Badgerys Creek

CSR land sale to fuel Sydney’s Aerotropolis dream

Up for grabs is one of the largest tracts left in the fast emerging precinct that will be home to Sydney’s new airport.

An investigation found Bunnings had breached the privacy of hundreds of thousands of Australians.

‘Follow the Bunnings’: Top tips for SMSF property investors

Industrial and retail properties are paying rental yields of anywhere between 5 per cent and 8 per cent.

Realterm’s Charlotte Brabant and Toni Ryan.

This fund manager wants to spend billions on outdoor storage

Global investment manager Realterm is betting on a niche logistics property type to grow in demand as e-commerce expands.

January

Private empire behind property developer Bob Ell suffers profit slide

Leda Holdings has reported a near-halving in annual profit due to a higher cost of sales, according to newly filed accounts.

Mirvac Wholesale Office Fund, which owns Quay Quarter Tower (pictured) and the former AMP building, deliver positive returns for the final quarter of 2024.

Why a 1.4pc return is great news for the office market

Mirvac Wholesale Office Fund, which owns Quay Quarter Tower and the former AMP building, delivered positive returns for the final quarter of 2024.

Pushing ahead with investment: AustralianSuper has taken half of a $1.4 billion European portfolio of warehouses and logistics depots from Canada’s Oxford Properties.

AustralianSuper takes half stake in $1.4b European logistics portfolio

The industry giant and co-owner Oxford Properties Group aim to grow the venture to $7.5 billion in three to five years.

Goodman’s development of hyperscale data centres like this one in Tokyo makes it a top pick for global REIT investors.

Goodman, Scentre among REITs set to bounce higher in 2025

A lack of new supply is expected to put more pricing power in the hands of landlords, meaning stronger earnings growth in 2025, say global investment managers.

December 2024

There’s not a lot of new supply coming on in Sydney, so occupancy rates and room rates will keep rising.

5 opportunities for commercial property investing in 2025

Sydney hotels, data centres and regional shopping centres are among the segments tipped to grow next year.

David Di Pilla at the ASX just before trading in DigiCo REIT kicked off.

David Di Pilla says US a ‘huge’ opportunity for data centre REIT

Speaking ahead of the float today of data centre trust DigiCo Infrastructure REIT, David Di Pilla says the much bigger US market is a natural extension of his ambitions.

Nuveen’s ANZ region head of debt Dugald Marr.

‘It’s a bit of a golden age of private credit’

Fund manager Nuveen, which has done a $400 million deal with Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, says high returns are possible – and the risks aren’t bad, either.

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Greg Goodman has made a big pivot towards data centres.

Greg Goodman turns his company into a data centre powerhouse

The billionaire’s push to meet the booming demand for data storage lands him a place on the 2024 The Australian Financial Review Business People of the Year list.

Marlborough House has changed hands for the first time in over 50 years.

James Packer behind $110m deal for Surry Hills heritage building

An investment company ultimately owned by James Packer is partnering with developer Time & Place on plans for a $500m inner-Sydney development.

November 2024

The Virginia-class submarine.

AUKUS subs project to drive $40b logistics, housing boom: report

The building and maintenance of nuclear submarines in Adelaide and Perth is expected to create demand for 1 million square metres of warehouse space and 24,500 homes.

Charter Hall’s David Harrison says his portfolio covering 2000 tenants gives him a better real-time read on the economy than the central bank.

The next three property shortages have already started

Charter Hall boss David Harrison says the supply shortages and lack of developer confidence we’re seeing in the housing market are playing out across the property sector. 

Chris Ellison, MinRes’ managing director, and other investors in the Bullsbrook development project.

The $45m MinRes property deal – with the Ellisons on the other side

Investors in the iron ore and lithium miner would have had no idea that MinRes’ joint venture partner in a big Perth real estate play was the company’s founder.

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