This Month
Don’t say Trump, but return to office will pick up: property bosses
Heads of the country’s largest commercial landlords avoid commenting on the US president’s executive order. But they want workers back.
- Michael Bleby
What the top 2024 US office deals reveal about the year ahead
Movement in the troubled office sector shows owners did what they had to do to strike a deal, pointing to more activity in 2025.
- Natalie Wong and John Gittelsohn
December 2024
Welcome to Australia Post’s HQ. Just don’t call it the HQ
The postal service has ditched its high-profile head office in a Melbourne skyscraper for a humble yet high-tech building in the suburbs. It’s all about the vibe.
- Nick Lenaghan
October 2024
Billionaires behaving badly | Wall Street royalty | Why offices should be like hotels
This week, James and Anthony dive into the drama surrounding two billionaire founders, interview Wall Street royalty, and poke about in some of Sydney’s primo office real estate.
September 2024
- Exclusive
- Commercial real estate
Table tennis, hot-desking are so 2019. Offices are changing again
Many offices are out of date with post-pandemic usage patterns, but there are signs of stabilisation for the first time since the disruption of the pandemic.
- Michael Bleby
Why Chris Lucas’ new top-end Melbourne venue won’t be a private club
The city’s restaurant king reveals his $45 million plan for a four-level venue known as Batard at the top end of Bourke Street.
- Patrick Durkin
How this office building is saving money – and carbon
This retrofit saved 57,000 tonnes of embodied carbon emissions, as companies rethink the design of office buildings.
- Michael Bleby
July 2024
- Opinion
- Working from home
This is the new normal of office life
Flexible working patterns in a decent place that makes it easy to do the job you’re paid for is a basic recipe for success in a post-pandemic world.
- Updated
- Pilita Clark
June 2024
Cannon-Brookes’ $10m office reno tops architecture awards
The focus on giving new life to old buildings is crucial at a time when preserving embodied carbon of existing buildings is an increasing priority.
- Michael Bleby
May 2024
Allens to be king of the hill in Sydney’s new legal district
Allens and four other law firms are set to move into the revamped AMP building at Circular Quay as a new legal district in Sydney develops towards the harbour.
- Maxim Shanahan and Campbell Kwan
April 2024
Welcome to WeWork for spies
In this co-working space, only the cappuccino isn’t classified. Servicing the spook sector is a rare bright spot in the market for office facilities,
- Daniel Flatley
January 2024
As office workers make their return, so does the lowly cubicle
Cubicles, like scrunchies, are back, spurred by demand from employers and employees alike.
- Ellen Rosen
NYC’s financial district gets luxury apartments in office tower
New York mayor Eric Adams has been pushing for residential overhauls to address city’s severe housing shortage, especially where office vacancies have soared.
- Jennifer Epstein
December 2023
High land prices stalling office developments: Hines
Land values have yet to adjust to rising cost and the price of debt, the developer and fund manager says.
- Michael Bleby
October 2023
As timber buildings go up, emissions come down
The growing use of engineered wood products allows for less embodied carbon in buildings, but that alone won’t make construction clean.
- Michael Bleby
- Exclusive
- Commercial real estate
Rich Lister Stamoulis spies opportunity in $155m Charter Hall tower
The Melbourne deal comes in a market which has been starved of major trades for the past year as office values fall, under pressure from higher rates and softening demand.
- Nick Lenaghan
September 2023
Whose responsibility is it for office productivity?
Office landlords want workers back in the office to make them more effective and collaborate, but the onus is on landlords to draw people back.
- Campbell Kwan
August 2023
Recession fears not driving workers back to office: survey
More than three years after the start of the pandemic, the corporate world is still grappling with workplace productivity and management.
- Michael Bleby
Why remote working didn’t work for this lawyer
Individuals will always differ, but the main game is a power struggle playing out now between employers and employees.
- Michael Bleby
July 2023
UK architects WilkinsonEyre look to muscle up Down Under
Director Ed Daines is relocating to Sydney, as the elite firm looks for fresh Australian opportunities in high-rise, transport infrastructure and beyond.
- Hans van Leeuwen