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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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Charter Hall's proposed Chifley South development in the Sydney CBD

Rising construction costs hit property market

Real estate funds giant Charter Hall says the property market upswing has begun, but fewer new buildings are being built as costs soar.

Ben Wilmot

LogisticsCommercial

ISPT is selling the Interchange Industrial Estate in Narangba, Queensland

Big-buying Irongate swings in behind the industrial and logistics sector

Property group Irongate is again making its mark with a series of lucrative industrial real estate plays.

Ben Wilmot

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KM, PGIM team up for $100m Yatala play

Local firm KM Property Funds and international giant PGIM Real Estate have snapped up a prime industrial and logistics estate in the Queensland centre of Yatala.

Ben Wilmot

ShoppingCommercial

Revelop has bought Lake Macquarie Square in regional NSW for $122.5m

Revelop snaps up Lake Macquarie Square for $122.5m

The private company Revelop is adding to its shopping centre empire as large institutions sell down into the rising market.

Ben Wilmot

PartnershipsProperty

Ingleburn Logistics Park in south-west Sydney is part of a new Stockland partnership with M&G

Stockland locks in KKR, M&G

Property giant Stockland is closing in on a deal in which US private equity house KKR and British funds giant M&G Real Estate will join it as partners in growing its logistics operations.

Ben Wilmot

HousingProperty

Managing director and Chief executive Tarun Gupta of Stockland, Australia's biggest residential developer. Jane Dempster/The Australian.

Stockland tips residential recovery as it takes hit on margins

Positive fundamentals in the housing market will see volumes come back in Sydney and beaten down Victoria will stage a recovery, according to the nation’s largest residential developer.

Ben Wilmot

EarningsProperty

Artists impression of a proposed Goodman Group data centre development, Sydney

Goodman raising $4bn for data centre expansion as profit jumps

The industrial landlord turned digital infrastructure giant’s hefty capital raising will help drive its plan to get 500 megawatts of capacity under construction by next year as earnings soar.

Joseph Lam and Ben Wilmot

RetailProperty

The GPT Wholesale Shopping Centre Fund is selling a 50 per cent interest in Northland Shopping Centre

Petrol king buys Northland stake in $385m play

Tycoon Nick Andrianakos has struck another property bargain, snapping up a half interest in Melbourne’s sprawling Northland Shopping Centre, in a bet on the area’s long term prospects.

Ben Wilmot

FundsProperty

Concerns have been raised in federal parliament about security of Defence Department secrets held by Chinese-owned data centre Global Switch in Ultimo. Picture: Supplied

HMC chases Healthscope as global expansion kicks off

David Di Pilla’s funds empire is making a big expansion push, and a troubled hospital company is on the agenda.

Ben Wilmot

PropertyProperty

A render of the Waterfront Brisbane development. Picture: Supplied

Top landlord says offices getting back on track as rates fall

Dexus has come through the worst of the downturn and says that the market for large towers is stabilising, and it can stay on track for Waterfront Brisbane.

Ben Wilmot

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