Ben Wilmot

Ben WilmotCommercial Property Editor

Ben Wilmot has been The Australian’s commercial property editor since 2013. He was previously a property journalist with the Australian Financial Review.

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Artist impression of Metro and Billbergia's Hyde Park development site

Locals team up for massive $3bn Sydney twin towers project

Debt house Metrics has stepped up as a joint venture partner with developer Billbergia on a $3bn luxury residential project overlooking Hyde Park in the heart of Sydney.

Ben Wilmot and Lisa Allen

ExclusiveFinancial Services

MA Financial joint CEOs Chris Wyke and Julian Biggins

MA Financial’s $300m plan for the year’s first big float

MA Financial is well advanced with its plans to raise about $300m for a listed credit trust, which sources say is likely to be the first big float of 2025.

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PropertyCommercial

Goodman Group's Tsukuba Tech Central in Japan

Goodman brings in Norwegians for US assault

Goodman Group has struck a mega-deal in the US, bringing in the trillion-dollar Norwegian sovereign wealth fund as a backer in the world’s largest commercial market.

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HotelsProperty

Redcape has sold the Cabramatta Hotel to Iris Capital's Sam Arnaout

Billionaire swoops on Sydney pubs in $200m play

Pubs are making a late year surge, with property billionaire Sam Arnaout snapping up two venues.

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Commercial propertyProperty

Investa Commercial Property Fund is selling a 50 per cent stake in 135 King Street, Sydney

Offshore investors swoop as dollar dives

Big US firms flexed their financial muscle to become the biggest buyers in commercial property this year, but Japanese companies have kept on buying as the year comes to a close.

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ExclusiveBusiness

John Carfi , John Boyd (c) and Tony Shepherd . DAILY TELEGRAPH 16TH NOVEMBER 2023 Daily Telegraph Future Sydney Bradfield Oration 2023 at the MCA in Sydney.

Boyd and Stockland in talks on airport logistics precinct

In what could be the final mega project of his storeyed property career, veteran developer John Boyd is in talks with Stockland to develop a controversial Cooks Cove site into a logistics precinct.

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HospitalityProperty

MA Redcape Hotel Fund has bought The Lucky Tree Tavern in Durack

MA Financial quenches thirst with $66m round of pub purchases

The pub market is running almost as hot as the weather, with a sector heavyweight buying three Queensland watering holes.

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Student accommodationProperty

Wee Hur Holdings student accommodation block next to the Crown & Anchor Hotel . Picture Supplied

Future Fund backs $1.6bn student housing play amid shortage

Australia’s sovereign wealth fund will pour about $350m into a deal to get a slice of seven student complexes.

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FloatsCompanies

13/12/24: David Di Pilla who is the richlister behind fund manager HMC Capital which is listing data centre owner DigiCo Infrastructure on the ASX. John Feder/The Australian.

DigiCo shares slump as year’s biggest float plunges

HMC Capital founder David Di Pilla’s dreams of a global data centre empire appear to have been shattered as investors dub the company ‘DodgyCo’.

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ExclusiveProperty

Artist impression of Rouse Hill drive's streetscape in the proposed redevelopment of Rouse Hill Town Centre, as submitted to Hills Shire Council on 17 May 2022.

GPT funds hit the retail expansion trail

The listed group is shaking up its flagship office and retail funds that control about $14bn worth of the country’s best towers and malls.

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