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The median strip in the middle of Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan.

Does anyone want a park in the middle of Park Avenue?

More green space is generally welcomed in New York – but not everyone is convinced a park in the middle of a busy street is a good idea.

  • Dodai Stewart
A surge in people wanting to work from home, and leaving our cities for regional areas, means our infrastructure needs have changed sharply.

Deloitte monitors staff logging in from overseas

Businesses that offered flexible “work from anywhere” perks after the pandemic now struggle to keep a lid on workers who relocate around the globe.

  • Adam Mawardi

Melbourne is ‘dead’, says property mogul

Nigel Satterley, Australia’s biggest private residential land developer, dismissed fears the good times are over for Perth’s property market.

  • Tom Rabe

Up to 10,500 homes in NSW being built by ‘risky players’

Former NSW building commissioner David Chandler says the regulator, which initially focused on apartments, is only now getting to grips with detached home building.

  • Michael Bleby

How investors can avoid being ripped off by strata firms

At the slightest hint of unscrupulous behaviour, ask questions.

  • Jimmy Thomson

Chris Lucas’ 24/7 recipe for success

Renowned restaurateur has been working with developers to transform the ground level of major new projects with upmarket restaurants.

  • Nick Lenaghan

How it Sold

The three-bedroom house at 68 Abbeville Street in Brisbane’s Upper Mount Gravatt sold at auction for $1.4 million.

A $1.4m sale plays the Brisbane and Melbourne markets – and wins

It wasn’t on purpose, but a young couple bought and sold in two capital city markets at just the right time.

  • Michael Bleby
A render of the four-bedroom, three-level townhouse at 11-11A Old Berowra Road in upper north shore Sydney’s Hornsby, which sold for $1.8 million off the plan.

Couple buys $1.8m home – and still ends up sharing with parents

Many multi-generational families want to live close to each other. But worsening affordability has reduced spending power – and that’s changing housing design.

  • Michael Bleby

Luxury Property

This Marrickville home holds the suburb record after selling for $6 million.

Sydney suburb breaks $6m record with Palm Springs-inspired house

The record sum in the Sydney inner west suburb was paid for an old-meets-new designer home. The price was good news for the prime minister, who has just listed his nearby investment townhouse.

  • Bonnie Campbell

Famed Sydney trophy weekender Cloud Valley on offer for $30m

One of Australia’s most exclusive rural retreats – once owned by talkback legend John Laws – has hit the trophy market guiding $25m to $30m.

  • Bonnie Campbell
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This Marrickville home holds the suburb record after selling for $6 million.

Sydney suburb breaks $6m record with Palm Springs-inspired house

The record sum in the Sydney inner west suburb was paid for an old-meets-new designer home. The price was good news for the prime minister, who has just listed his nearby investment townhouse.

  • Bonnie Campbell

Yesterday

Will the Sydney Metro change where you work?

Corporate tenants are shifting into the CBD, thanks to the new metro stations. But experts are divided on whether North Sydney will be a winner or a loser.

  • Campbell Kwan

National Storage REIT in $300m convertibles deal; taps three banks

National Storage REIT is tapping the market after at a flurry of convertibles deals – and associated delta placements – from Australian issuers.

  • Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport

There’s more to soaring housing costs than developers suggest

Readers’ letters on rising building costs; Clover Moore’s mayoral bid; property’s winners and losers; social media panic; and secession for Western Australia.

Build-to-rent sector faces wave of consolidation

Rising costs and limited capital could force some operators in the sector to exit the market.

  • Nila Sweeney
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Redcape has sold Vauxhall Inn (pictured) and one other Western Sydney pub to pay redemptions.

Redcape set to refresh pubs portfolio with $120m in deals

An unlisted pubs fund run by MA Financial had to freeze redemptions last year. But there’s some good cheer for its investors as funds flow again.

  • Campbell Kwan and Nick Lenaghan

Famed Sydney trophy weekender Cloud Valley on offer for $30m

One of Australia’s most exclusive rural retreats – once owned by talkback legend John Laws – has hit the trophy market guiding $25m to $30m.

  • Bonnie Campbell

City with too many skyscrapers now home to world’s second tallest

There are growing questions about the proliferation of skyscrapers in the Malaysian capital.

  • Anders Melin and Joy Lee
Best Places to Work 2024

PwC UK issues Orwellian notice to get workers back into the office

The big four accounting firm is not only mandating its staff spend more hours in the office, it plans to keep track of them too.

  • Kate Andrews

Buyer of iconic Sydney pubs under investigation over $100m GST refunds

The high-flying buyer of popular pubs such as Kinselas, the Courthouse and the Metropolitan, and Melbourne’s Adelphi Hotel, is under investigation by the Tax Office.

  • David Marin-Guzman, Larry Schlesinger and Max Mason
Brookfield’s Ruban Kaneshamoorthy is ready to roll up his sleeves.

The property hotspots attracting the world’s biggest investors

Higher for longer rates means the easy money is property is gone. It’s time for investors to roll up their sleeves.

  • James Thomson

This Month

It’s all about the location: Dexus CEO Ross Du Vernet.

Offices are back – except if they’re out in the suburbs

The country’s most experienced real estate executives and investors warn that low-grade towers are unlikely to ever recover from the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Michael Bleby
The Australian office property market is deeply divided, and likely to become more so.

‘End of WFH nonsense’ not the only factor in office property fightback

The office property market is deeply divided between the assets no one wants and the jewels that are in short supply.

  • James Thomson
Morgan Stanley Australia chairman Tim Church told the Financial Review Property Summit that he expected M&A activity will pick up.

Morgan Stanley’s Tim Church awaits real estate M&A’s ‘big thaw’

The investment bank’s veteran real estate operator says expectations of impending interest rate cuts and a desire to deploy capital is getting deals going.

  • Jemima Whyte

AirTrunk’s Robin Khuda reveals his luxury apartment side-hustle

The businessman has said plenty about the prospects of his data centre company, but has not spoken before about his high-end real estate development.

  • Larry Schlesinger
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Chris Tynan is the head of real estate at Blackstone in Australia.

Property investors lash Labor’s plan to cut international students

The federal government intends to reduce the number of overseas admissions by 30 per cent, which the real estate sector says is short-sighted.

  • Michael Bleby
The key to diversity is company culture: Khuda

The key to diversity is company culture: Khuda

Robin Khuda says AirTrunk is succeeding in diversity because it's embedded in its culture.

Charter Hall CEO David Harrison.

Power crisis is as big as Australia’s housing crisis: Charter Hall

The lack of reliable energy is already hitting industrial property assets and will hit harder as investment ramps up in data centres, the industry warns.

  • Michael Bleby
Density must go up to address housing supply challenges: economist

Density must go up to address housing supply challenges: economist

Barrenjoey chief economist Jo Masters tells the Financial Review Property Summit that an important part of the housing supply fix is increasing household size.

Robin Khuda and Chris Tynan.

What we missed in the AirTrunk frenzy

AirTrunk founder Robin Khuda is thinking bigger than his own company. He says the staggering growth prospects for data centres can change the Australian economy.  

  • James Thomson