Jul, 2018

CBA Suncorp & Westpac cut mortgage discount rates by 55 bp & Westpac withdraws lending to SMSFs

Finance Markets / Mortgages

The Australian Financial Review today announced that Westpac and its subsidiaries Bank of Melbourne, St George Bank and BankSA, will withdraw from lending to small super funds at the end of July.

Australia

Apr, 2018

Bond yields expected to boost locally listed properties

Finance Markets / Latest Activity

The recent contraction in bond yields could boost relative performance for locally listed properties, according to figures released by Citi, whose research concluded that the yield curve for Australian bonds is flattening again.

Australia

Mar, 2018

Malaysian developer turns to foreign banks for funding

Finance Markets / Latest Activity

Four offshore banks will fund Malaysian developer OSK Property’s $2.8 billion Melbourne Square project.

Australia

Mar, 2018

Biggest threat to banks is competition, despite bad lending practices, says Hempton

Finance Markets / Mortgages

Australia’s banks will be more impacted by competition in the long term, than an overvalued property market, despite an increase in dodgy mortgages, according to hedge fund manager John Hempton.

Australia

Feb, 2018

French AXA enters Australian commercial debt market

Finance Markets / Market Trends

One of the world?s largest non-bank lenders, AXA Investment Managers-Real Assets, has indicated its intention to enter the commercial real estate debt market.

Feb, 2018

A-REITs to underperform against equities: analysts

Finance Markets / Latest Activity

Australias listed real estate trusts are likely to underperform equities again this year as rising bond yields cause volatility in both sectors, analysts say.

Australia

Jan, 2018

Bitcoin becoming more popular for real estate sales

Finance Markets / Market Trends

Bitcoin fever has hit the U.S. real estate market, especially that of Florida, offering foreign investors a way to dodge currency controls at home and U.S. economic sanctions.

United States of America

Nov, 2017

Commercial real estate is Australia's other big property risk

Finance Markets / Latest Activity

We've been talking about the Sydney and Melbourne housing bubble for years, but there's another danger looming.

Australia

Nov, 2017

Fierce competition at auctions for shops

Finance Markets / Latest Activity

Shops on Melbourne's suburban strips continue to attract premium prices and fierce competition at auctions.

Australia

Nov, 2017

Co-working office headhunting corporates

Finance Markets / Latest Activity

Co-working office operators are going after growth in the corporate market, boasting of 25 to 30 per cent savings on the cost of a traditional office lease.

Australia

Nov, 2017

Hotels hit straps as long-time owners cash out

Finance Markets / Latest Activity

Generational change and booming property values are hitting pub ownership as hotels without underpinning pokie machine income or trendy destinations face an uncertain future. Â

Australia

Oct, 2017

Charter Hall Retail REIT delivers 4pc growth

Finance Markets / Latest Activity

Charter Hall Retail REIT will focus on increasing its portfolio with larger-scale, food-anchored neighbourhood shopping centres after posting a 4 per cent rise in sales growth for the September quarter. Â

Australia

Oct, 2017

How long can this party last?

Finance Markets / Market Trends

With commercial office landlords in Sydney in the grip of a perfect storm of low supply, buoyant demand and rising rents, it might be time to pause and consider those events that could put a stop to this record period of bliss. Â Â

Australia

Sep, 2017

Flexible short-term space a sign of the times.

Finance Markets / Market Trends

There are different ways businesses can make their work space more flexible to suit their needs, and that of their employees. Activity-based working, hot-desking and work from home options are just a few.

Australia

Aug, 2017

Muir family sells another Good Guys store

Finance Markets / Latest Activity

A corner property leased to The Good Guys, Goodyear and Burson Auto in Melbourne's Hoppers Crossing has sold for $11 million.

Australia

Aug, 2017

Competition heats up in portfolio auction space

Finance Markets / Latest Activity

Real estate agency CBRE will up the ante on competitor Burgess Rawson when it launches a regular portfolio auction campaign this month.

Australia

Jul, 2017

100 Collins strata office peaks

Finance Markets / Market Trends

Melbourne's CBD hot strata market is on a streak with a fifth office in Collins Street modernist building setting a new price record. Â

Australia

Jul, 2017

Malaysian developer targets owner-occupiers in Southbank

Finance Markets / Latest Activity

Malaysian developer OSK Property is firmly staking its $2.8 billion mixed-use complex Melbourne Square on a rise in owner-occupier demand with 78 per cent of apartments offered having two or more bedrooms.

Australia

Jul, 2017

Downtown Manhattan asking rents reach all-time highs in June

Finance Markets / Market Trends

According to CBRE, the average asking rent in the Downtown Manhattan office market reached an all-time high of $62 per sq. ft., following the addition of 1.7 million square feet of space at 3 WTC.

United States of America

Jun, 2017

Binks site adds to Footscray unit heat

Finance Markets / Latest Activity

Offshore developer AVIC Group has proposed a $162 million mixed-use estate for the former Binks Ford car yard in Footscray.

Australia

May, 2017

Legal precinct strata heat

Finance Markets / Market Trends

Generational change in the legal precinct has sparked a series of property deals with owners taking advantage of hot CBD prices.

Australia

May, 2017

Moscow's luxury hotel sector index dips in Q1

Finance Markets / Latest Activity

The market in the Russian capital is still riding strong, gaining volume of rooms sold in most segments and rates in some.

Russia

May, 2017

Commercial property the bigger risk to banks: Fitch Ratings

Finance Markets / Latest Activity

Losses on commercial real estate loans pose a more immediate risk to Australia's banks than developments in the housing market, where regulators are putting the brakes on riskier lending, Fitch Ratings says. Â

Australia

May, 2017

Major deals ahead for the Hungarian real estate market

Finance Markets / Latest Activity

It is very likely that business deals in the Hungarian investment property market in 2017 will reach last year's â?¬1.54 billion (HUF 480 million) turnover â?? predicts the Budapest office of CBRE.Â

Hungary

Apr, 2017

Demand a stellar win for hotels sector

Finance Markets / Market Trends

The eastern seaboard markets of Sydney and Melbourne were the standout performers in 2016 with the continued achievement of strong market KPIs against a backdrop of compressing yields.

Australia

Apr, 2017

Downtown Manhattan enjoys significant surge of office leasing in early 2017

Finance Markets / Market Trends

According to JLL, lower Manhattan recorded more than 2.3 million square feet in leasing transactions in the first quarter of 2017

United States of America

Apr, 2017

150 enquiries, 80 bids, drives 3.24% yield

Finance Markets / Market Trends

Eighty bids from eight bidders pushed the yield on a Deepdene property to a tight 3.24 per cent following a frenetic Teska Carson marketing campaign which attracted more than 150 enquiries.Â

Australia

Apr, 2017

Capital injection set for Brisbane amid attraction of yield spread

Finance Markets / Latest News

Brisbane's commercial property market is expected to rise on the radar of investors over the next two years as yield compression reaches its peak in Sydney and Melbourne.Â

Australia

Apr, 2017

Can housing bubbles be stopped? Australia's tiny apartments say no

Finance Markets / Market Trends

From Australia to Canada, authorities are learning a hard lesson in their efforts to curb the foreign money flooding their property markets: deterrents quickly lose their punch.

Australia

Mar, 2017

Hotel sector under the spotlight

Finance Markets / Market Trends

The hotel sector has been catapulted into the spotlight with the recent trading activity in the listed Mantra Group.

Australia

Mar, 2017

Leasing deals doubled as government settles in

Finance Markets / Market Trends

New leasing deals signed by the state and federal governments have underpinned a surge in office deals in Melbourne's CBD in the past year.

Australia

Mar, 2017

Germany overtakes UK as most active European commercial property market

Finance Markets / Market Trends

Germany overtook the UK as the most active commercial property market in Europe in 2016 with transactions totalling â?¬59 billion, according to the latest research.

Germany

Mar, 2017

Fed rate rise boosts Australian property interest

Finance Markets / Market Trends

Australian property is expected to be a beneficiary of the lower for longer global interest rate environment as investors seek out the stable, safe haven that bricks and mortar offer.

Australia

Mar, 2017

Chinese developers face headwinds, warns Moody's

Finance Markets / Market Trends

Ratings agency Moody's Investor Services has warned that Chinese developers will face increasing competition, after the Chinese government said it would fine-tune some measures to curtail price hikes in some cities.

China

Mar, 2017

Australia seen as the safe haven for investors

Finance Markets / Latest Activity

Demand for high-quality, stable markets throughout Australia will keep the overseas cash coming in as investors steer clear of volatility elsewhere in the world.

Australia

Mar, 2017

Healthcare assets the hot ticket item for investors

Finance Markets / Latest Activity

Strong growth in the healthcare sector â?? underpinned by Australia's ageing population â?? has sparked the sale of a medical facility on the Mornington Peninsula.Â

Australia

Feb, 2017

Melbourne leads nation with record industrial & logistics sales turnover

Finance Markets / Latest Activity

Victoria's industrial & logistics sector recorded its strongest year of sales on record in 2016, with $1.92 billion in assets changing hands â?? representing a 15% increase from 2015

Australia

Feb, 2017

Land prices rise to record highs as size of blocks fall

Finance Markets / Market Trends

The average time on the market for land in Melbourne's outer growth suburbs has dropped below 60 days, the lowest ever recorded. Â

Australia

Feb, 2017

Money flowing again for developments but it is choosy and expensive: Stamford Capital

Finance Markets / Latest Activity

Project funding is coming on stream again after the banking market effectively 'seized' in mid-2016, but this new money is very choosy and comes at a price, says Stamford Capital's executive director Michael Hynes.

Australia

Feb, 2017

Chinese investor buys Greensborough shops on 4.4% yield

Finance Markets / Latest Activity

A Chinese investor has paid $2.95 million on a tight 4.4 per cent yield for a fully leased Main Street Greensborough property with development upside, in a deal brokered by Savills Nick Peden and Jesse Radisich.

Australia

Jan, 2017

Innovative Sunshine Coast business hub enjoys strong start

Finance Markets / Market Trends

A new warehouse style business hub earmarked for the Sunshine Coast has attracted strong interest just weeks after its launch, with interstate and international buyers keen to secure space within the popular Caloundra West precinct.Â

Australia