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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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Macquarie's new $350m IC3 Super West data centre

Agencies forecast a commercial property recovery

After a tough period, the commercial property is set to turn around this year.

Ben Wilmot

ExclusiveProperty

The Sir Stamford at Circular Quay in Sydney

Apartments plan for historic harbourside hotel

After years of delays the Sydney harbourside hotel Sir Stamford is expected to be redeveloped as entrepreneurs bet on the top end of the apartment market.

Ben Wilmot and Lisa Allen

PropertyProperty

n29ho402c1 (3-3) Ford Factory. Campbellfield. Picture Julie Best. 070112

Ford offloads historic Melbourne site set for $250m revamp

The famed motoring company has sold off a piece of Australian manufacturing history to a developer determined to revamp it with a $250m plan.

Ben Wilmot

PropertyBusiness

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.

Ben Wilmot and Joyce Moullakis

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.

Ben Wilmot

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.

Ben Wilmot

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.

Ben Wilmot

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.

Ben Wilmot

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.

Ben Wilmot

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