Foreign Commercial Investment News

With more and more Chinese buyers entering the Australian property market, there are some vendors, agents, bankers and brokers, to name a few, who feel frustrated by the buyers’ behaviour. Many of these people do …

THE $496 million sale of a 50% stake in Northland Shopping Centre, Victoria, last week marked a full recovery in the large retail mall sector. The share offloaded by Canada Pension Plan Investment Fund to …

Australia is the second most attractive country for Asia Pacific investors – coming in behind China and ahead of Japan, India and Indonesia. Sydney and Melbourne are second and third – behind Tokyo and Shanghai …

Shopping centres are big business – and we’re not just talking about the money flowing through the cash registers. Most of us think of shopping centres as where we buy the groceries, birthday presents and …

More than 4000 new hotel rooms are on the drawing board in Perth, and another 700 in Fremantle, as developers tip more than $3 billion into the western cities in the next five years. Property …

Demand for inner-city living is giving old office blocks a new lease on life – as apartments. Low interest rates and strong housing markets are fuelling the demand for inner-city apartments. Melbourne and Sydney are …

Investors spent more than $8.1 billion on CBD office buildings last year – up 16% on the year before and the highest level of investment since 2007. A new report shows Australian institutions were back …

  Australian hotels are emerging as more than just a place to lay your head. Investors spent about $4 billion on hotels in the past two years – well up on the five-year average of …

Investors hit the stores in Victoria last year, snapping up nine neighbourhood shopping centres for a combined value of close to $200 million. That compares with similar shopping centre sales of $60 million in 2012 …