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Mackenzie Scott is a property and general news reporter based in Brisbane. Prior to joining The Australian in 2018, she was the editorial coordinator at NewsMediaWorks, covering media and publishing, and editor at travel and lifestyle website Xplore Sydney.

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New Farm’s bumper harvest

The popularity of Brisbane’s cosmopolitan inner city New Farm has not diminished through the coronavirus crisis.

Mackenzie Scott

EconomyProperty

(FILES) In this file photo an aerial view is seen of a construction worker roofing an apartment home on May 27, 2020 in Uniondale, New York. - New home construction in May rose 4.3 percent compared to April, the Commerce Department said on June 17, 2020, as activity began to resume despite the coronavirus pandemic. However the pace of homebuilding hit a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 974,000, far short of what analysts had forecast, and 23.2 percent below May 2019, the report said. (Photo by AL BELLO / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)

Residential construction key to economic recovery

Independent research has supported claims from developers that the industry will be crucial in stoking an economic recovery.

Ben Wilmot and Mackenzie Scott

PropertyProperty

59 Grange Rd, Toorak- for Herald Sun real estate

Virus response, $A bring expats home

Cashed-up Aussie expats are buying off-market as deals continue in favourable conditions, a real estate report says.

Mackenzie Scott

Trading DayTrading Day

President Donald Trump speaks during a roundtable about America's seniors, in the Cabinet Room of the White House, Monday, June 15, 2020, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

ASX adds $68bn on dual stimulus boost

Reports of a new $1tn US stimulus package and further support from the US Fed sparked a 3.9pc rally on the ASX, with all sectors higher.

David Rogers and Melissa Yeo

PropertyProperty

Consolidated Property exec chairman Don O'Rorke at Yeerongpillly Green. He is incorporating three historic buildings into the new $850M development (a mortuary is one of them). Don at one of the three sites. Pic Mark Cranitch.

Developer hits pause on Yeerongpilly Green

Slow apartment sales and the weak economic environment post coronavirus prompts rethink on timing.

Mackenzie Scott

Nation

12th June 2020First home buyers Nat and Tayla Leach in Caloundra. Photo: Glenn Hunt / The Australian

Developers eye first-home buyers this weekend

This weekend will be the test of buyers’ appetite for new homes as developers eagerly wait to see whether stimulus-created interest can be converted to sales.

Mackenzie Scott

EXCLUSIVEProperty

Industrial projects fast-tracked for post-crisis jobs

Logistics and industrial projects are being fast-tracked around Australia as the sector comes out of the coronavirus crisis as the strongest property sector thanks to the switch to online buying.

Ben Wilmot and Mackenzie Scott

PropertyProperty