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- Chanticleer
How high house prices and loser landlords drive this property bet
Anthony Albanese’s house purchase underscores the grim reality facing many buyers. One entrepreneur wants to help – and make big returns for his investors.
- 49 mins ago
- James Thomson
House price growth to slow to 5pc nationally: experts
The pace of house price growth is slowing as affordability constraints and high borrowing costs take the edge off strong underlying demand.
- Nick Lenaghan
- Exclusive
- Property development
Six weeks for a housing approval? This council guarantees it
There are many reasons housing projects can be delayed, but one Melbourne municipality is doing what it can to prevent them.
- Michael Bleby
Chin Chin for Canberra: Chris Lucas’ grand restaurant plans
The restaurateur is opening his first Canberra eatery and working with QIC on another diner there.
- Updated
- Larry Schlesinger
- Opinion
- Industrial
Goodbye Sydney: warehouse owners priced out of town
The resulting transport and storage charges will flow on to the cost of living in Sydney, even to the cost of building a new home.
- Updated
- Robert Harley
Property pay moderates as companies tighten their belts
Average wage increases fell for the second time this year as companies sought to be more sustainable, a survey of 1700 businesses has found.
- Larry Schlesinger
How it Sold
Unliveable apartment with no kitchen sells for a ‘surprising’ $3.3m
Buyers, gaining confidence about the direction of the market and interest rates, are starting to spend big. Especially on dumps in great locations.
- Michael Bleby
Couple makes $2m selling the same home twice in a decade
It seemed like a good idea to go back to their old family property, but this empty-nester couple discovered it wasn’t what they had hoped it would be.
- Michael Bleby
Luxury Property
London’s prestige property king goes ultra-lux in Dubai
Nick Candy, one of the developers behind London’s One Hyde Park, is aiming high in the Middle East.
- Jack Sidders and Zainab Fattah
Where home buyers can snag the best beach house bargains now
House prices in some of the most popular coastal suburbs are starting to rise, but buyers can still find sharp discounts.
- Nila Sweeney
This Month
Put rezoning in hands of home builders, BCA says
Unlocking more land for development is one way to lower hurdles to new housing at a time when high costs render many new projects unviable.
- Michael Bleby
Housing crisis could run eight more years: Mirvac boss
Mirvac chief executive Campbell Hanan has warned that if governments do not pare back infrastructure spending, then housing shortages could run for much longer.
- Campbell Kwan
Rupert Murdoch, Don Meij stung in flat US prestige market
Deluxe foreign homes of corporates are flooding in for sale. Shame about demand.
- Mark Di Stefano
London’s prestige property king goes ultra-lux in Dubai
Nick Candy, one of the developers behind London’s One Hyde Park, is aiming high in the Middle East.
- Jack Sidders and Zainab Fattah
- Analysis
- Workplace culture
Executives and research disagree about hybrid work. Why?
Almost five years since the start of the pandemic, many CEOs are ready to move on from a work experiment they never wanted to start.
- Lauren Hirsch
How this young family got $200,000 off their dream home
Sharon and Chris Reay had struggled to sell their recently renovated home as prices declined, but that same market also let them buy in their dream locale.
- Campbell Kwan
Gloss comes off ‘success story’ in baby boomer housing
The pioneering developer of affordable accommodation for downsizing Baby Boomers is ending his tenure after a tough year.
- Michael Bleby
Future Fund-backed Greystar to buy GIC’s $1.6b student digs business
The Matt Woodland-led Greystar, advised by Macquarie Capital, is understood to be in the final stages of raising the capital required – split evenly between debt and equity.
- Sarah Thompson, Kanika Sood and Emma Rapaport
Where home buyers can snag the best beach house bargains now
House prices in some of the most popular coastal suburbs are starting to rise, but buyers can still find sharp discounts.
- Nila Sweeney
How to turn an empty office tower into a hotel
Veriu boss Zed Sanjana says incentives along with changes to planning rules and building codes are needed to encourage the repurposing of more office buildings.
- Larry Schlesinger
Japan joins the race to woo digital nomads
Meet-ups, start-ups and special visas. Japan is doing everything it can to attract the work-from-anywhere crowd.
- Yuichi Negi
Dubai’s allure to expats is weighing on city’s infrastructure
A glut of expats has sent property prices soaring. Competition is hot for school admissions, public transport is limited and roads are jammed.
- Abeer Abu Omar and Zainab Fattah
- Opinion
- Housing crisis
How we could free up 50,000 new home mortgages
The government looks at flawed schemes to boost housing demand without thinking of how to increase the supply of mortgages.
- Andrew Bragg
‘I know what it’s like to struggle’: PM defends $4.3m beach house
Anthony Albanese says he is neither contemplating retirement nor has he forgotten his upbringing. His new house is close to his fiancée’s family.
- Phillip Coorey and Campbell Kwan
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Lendlease investors backed Vik Bansal for chairman’s role
The property giant’s share registry remains polarised, and the appointment of chairman John Gillam has become a new flashpoint.
- James Thomson
- Opinion
- Property investment
Why now might be the time to buy property in Melbourne
Perth, Adelaide, and Brisbane might have been market darlings all year, but Melbourne holds more value than it appears on the surface.
- Jarrod McCabe
Name and shame plan to speed housing approvals won’t work, states say
Victoria, Queensland, WA and SA have rejected the idea of publishing the housing approval records of local authorities.
- Michael Bleby, Tom Rabe and James Hall
Working from home brings suburban strips back to life
Vacancy rates on affluent retail strips such as High Street Armadale in Melbourne are plunging as more people work from home and shop locally.
- Larry Schlesinger
The holy answer to Britain’s housing crisis
While the Church of England’s pro-housing mindset is nothing new, the ambitions of the government pave the way for more building in the coming years.
- Joe Wright
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
From Bunnings with love: New Lendlease boss wants reset, then growth
New chairman John Gillam has backed chief executive Tony Lombardo to oversee the turnaround. Long-suffering investors will want to see accountable results.
- James Thomson
