This Month
Mirvac says Melbourne office market is stabilising
The Victorian capital will get just three new office towers between now and 2030. The landlord and investor says that will drive tenants to its new building.
Neighbours selling together make a $1.7b prize, but it may be too late
Real estate agents say there has been an influx of home owners banding together and selling to developers making use of new planning rules in Sydney.
‘There’s definitely profit’ for buyer of $2.4m home
Lower borrowing costs and expectations that purchasers will pay more are spurring developers into action once again. They’re chasing areas with opportunity.
New housing supply will raise (and lower) prices
The new home-building cycle is just beginning. Its effects on values will vary by location and property type, analysts say.
Industry wants faster mid-rise development after 10-day house approvals
The housing industry has challenged the Minns government: if Queensland can approve apartments in three months, why can’t NSW?
Chalmers should heed Hawke on red tape
The challenge for the treasurer at his Economic Reform Roundtable will be to ensure the good ideas do not get lost in translation.
If your home design looks like one of these 8, it’ll be fast-tracked
Surprisingly cheap plans for NSW houses, terraces and townhouses will get quicker approvals to try to ease prices in one of the world’s most expensive cities.
$2.5b luxury apartment project planned for Sydney
The ASX-listed developer, investor and builder wants to show it has progressed a strategy to double down on its Australian development pipeline.
The housing crisis is being managed by the wrong people
Planning policy has been monopolised by a small professional silo, which for decades has been insulated from external input, feedback, and oversight.
June
This could ease Sydney’s house crisis, but current owners have to pay
The water pricing regulator has tried to shield households from bill shock, but industry warns underinvestment will drive up the cost of housing.
What’s holding us back from a better housing, transport and clean energy future
Australia doesn’t lack ideas for solving problems in housing, transport and clean energy, we lack institutions that can follow through and create change.
May
12 houses, $165m: Rose Bay home owners join forces to sell mega block
New NSW policy prompts the 12 property owners in the affluent harbourside Sydney suburb to put their collective site up for sale to developers.
March
Inside Macquarie’s $237m punt on the east London riverside
It has taken four years, but the wealth giant’s British build-to-rent vehicle Goodstone Living seems to be finding its feet – on the site of a famous former Ford factory.
February
QIC’s big plan to fix the nation’s housing and healthcare shortages
Newly appointed real estate managing director Deborah Coakley says the sovereign wealth fund wants to be known for more than owning shopping centres.
January
NIMBY or YIMBY? Andrew Charlton’s identity crisis
The federal MP, who owns several properties, is petitioning to stop development of 2500 new homes.
This star British gardener has big plans for Melbourne
Horticulturalist Nigel Dunnett is about to embark on his first project outside Britain – the Laak Boorndap garden in the new Melbourne Arts Precinct.
Canberra’s London Circuit to get $650m mixed-use precinct
Capital Property, the development company of late Rich Lister Terry Snow, is about to shape the largest CBD site ever sold by the ACT government.
November 2024
How a year-long wait worsens the housing crisis
A near 12-month wait for a Thai property developer for approvals to buy housing estates could deter other foreign developers, warns adviser Joseph Gersh.
Construction workers should be 10pc of migration, big developers urge
That was one of the key messages from a housing roundtable that focused on how to remove roadblocks to increasing the supply of affordable houses
October 2024
Welcome to New York’s next hot neighbourhood
Google and Disney have moved in to Hudson Square. Now developers luring residents with green spaces and a pedestrian-friendly plan for the once gritty industrial area.