13 March 2010 | Ben Hurley | The Australian Financial Review
Residential developers with spare equity are chasing development sites and many believe the market has bottomed.
13 March 2010 | Ben Wilmot | The Australian Financial Review
The Stonington Mansion site in Melbourne's leafy Malvern is up for sale once more.
13 March 2010 | Lisa Carapiet | The Australian Financial Review
Lloyd William's Hudson Conway is back in the property game. According to well-placed sources, the developer has bought Stockland Group's St Kilda Road apartments development site for $27.5 million.
13 March 2010 | Ben Hurley | The Australian Financial Review
The national squeeze on rental accommodation has extended to the top end as wealthy executives shift their families to Australia to capitalise on strong employment growth and skills shortages.
12 March 2010 | Vesna Poljak | The Australian Financial Review
Property trusts offer one of the best exposures to the economic recovery of any asset class, says Westfield Group finance chief Peter Allen.
12 March 2010 | Ben Wilmot | The Australian Financial Review
Colonial First State Global Asset Management will restructure its $2.5 billion unlisted Direct Property Investment Fund, winding down its industrial portfolio and recapitalising its shopping centre holdings.
12 March 2010 | Robert Harley | The Australian Financial Review
Craig Dunstan, the founder of real estate investment managers MacarthurCook and Australian Unity Funds Management, has started out again.
12 March 2010 | Ben Wilmot | The Australian Financial Review
The private McHugh Holdings has sold Kinselas Hotel in the Sydney inner-city suburb of Darlinghurst for $12 million as it considers a break-up of its pub empire.
12 March 2010 | Ben Hurley | The Australian Financial Review
Growing numbers of homeowners are cutting back on things they enjoy to meet their mortgage repayments as interest rates and house prices climb, according to a mortgage stress report.
12 March 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
A residential development site opposite the Queen Victoria Market in Melbourne has sold to a developer with Chinese backing for $10 million.
12 March 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
Payments more than 60 days late on commercial mortgages bundled and sold as bonds rose 33 basis points to 5.25 per cent in February, the smallest increase in six months, Morgan Stanley said in a report.
12 March 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
CapitaLand Ltd., which has Chinese properties valued at more than $14 billion, said demand in China is "strong" and the real estate boom can't be called a bubble.
12 March 2010 | Scott Elliott | The Australian Financial Review
is predicting that Australian house prices will stop climbing by the middle of this year as reduced government stimulus and higher interest rates put the brakes on.
12 March 2010 | Matthew Cranston | The Australian Financial Review
Westpac Banking Corp is giving a cautious outlook for the commercial property sector over the next two years despite strong economic growth forecasts.
11 March 2010 | Nick Lenaghan | The Australian Financial Review
A modest showing by investors in the latest housing finance figures adds to concerns over the strength of the residential recovery.
11 March 2010 | Ben Wilmot | The Australian Financial Review
The listed Amalgamated Holdings has unveiled plans to open the first new luxury hotel in Sydney's central business district for almost a decade with a proposal for a boutique property in the upper levels of the city's State Theatre and Gowings Buildings.
11 March 2010 | Mathew Dunckley | The Australian Financial Review
Victoria's embattled Planning Minister, Justin Madden, has admitted botching a major reform stripping councils of development powers in key areas of Melbourne.
11 March 2010 | Ben Wilmot | The Australian Financial Review
The Japanese-backed Kingfisher Bay Resort & Village Group has put its resort and tourism facilities on Queensland's iconic Fraser Island up for sale and expects to receive about $45 million.
11 March 2010 | Robert Harley | The Australian Financial Review
Scott Keck, the managing director of Melbourne-based strategic property consultants Charter Keck Cramer, has 90 valuers out in the field talking to purchasers every day. He thinks the buyers now competing for houses in the boom $600,000 to $1 million sector of the city's traditional housing market are fully stretched.
11 March 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
The federal government's NBN Co will move into three floors of office space at Innovation Place in North Sydney in mid June.
11 March 2010 | Scott Elliott | The Australian Financial Review
Hotels on Victoria's surf coast are attracting the interest of owner-occupiers keen to buy assets that benefit from the local tourism sector.
11 March 2010 | Lisa Carapiet | The Australian Financial Review
CBD retail property markets are still strong, although luxury retailers are opening stores in "super regional shopping centres" in Melbourne and Sydney.
11 March 2010 | Ben Hurley | The Australian Financial Review
Designing student accommodation has been a godsend for nettletontribe architects, after their first venture into the sector three years ago with a project at Australian National University.
11 March 2010 | The Australian Financial Review
University accommodation is proving resistant to down cycles, with a constant demand that has no sign of waning. But for the private sector, universities aren't easy to deal with, writes Ben Hurley.
11 March 2010 | Matthew Cranston | The Australian Financial Review
The University of Sydney has set a target of 6000 student accommodation places by 2014 in an attempt to retain its valuable international student base.
11 March 2010 | Jonathan Barrett | The Australian Financial Review
In typical WA fashion, Perth's selling agent to the stars, Willie Porteous, emerged from Bond Corporation three decades ago with enough contacts to be propelled to the top of the selling game in the state.
11 March 2010 | Michelle Singer | The Australian Financial Review
Australia's top end property market well and truly bottomed in June with signs already showing that the sector will underpin much of this year's price growth.
11 March 2010 | Scott Elliott | The Australian Financial Review
Melbourne's top end real estate market has witnessed dramatic prices increases over the past 12 months led by unbridled demand from overseas.
11 March 2010 | Lisa Carapiet | The Australian Financial Review
Stockland Group has sold its St Kilda Road apartments development site in Melbourne for $27.5 million as the group looks to wind down its apartments business.
11 March 2010 | Lisa Carapiet | The Australian Financial Review
Australian real estate investment trust managers need to start getting their heads around investing offshore if they want to deliver real returns to investors, according to Ernst & Young.
11 March 2010 | Michelle Singer | The Australian Financial Review
Despite reports of investors returning to the property market, sales evidence is yet to be seen according to analysts.
11 March 2010 | Michelle Singer | The Australian Financial Review
The financial crisis and downturn in the property market has proven to be an unlikely catalyst for the Brisbane Housing Company, with management taking the not-for-profit business into new, uncharted waters.
11 March 2010 | Matthew Cranston | The Australian Financial Review
Property group Stockland has secured Schneider Electric as a major tenant in its new Waterloo Road office building in Macquarie Park.
11 March 2010 | Michael Bathon | The Australian Financial Review
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11 March 2010 | Dan Levy | The Australian Financial Review
Apollo Management LP agreed to buy Citigroup's real estate investment unit, according to a person with knowledge of the deal.
11 March 2010 | Peter Woodifield | The Australian Financial Review
Liberty International, the largest UK mall owner, plans to split into two listed companies to offer investors a choice between London shopping centre developments.
