Industrial Real Estate

An Abbotsford warehouse leased to Swedish furniture goliath IKEA has sold to a Chinese investor for more than $17 million.

Industrial property company LOGOS has unveiled a deal to buy a 15.3ha infill development site in the Sydney suburb of Villawood from Toll Group and it is planning a $200 million facility.

Many every-day investors are put off commercial property because they believe it’s too complex. But with careful research, it needn’t be.

International logistics and e-commerce companies looking to bolster their local operations are boosting their holdings across Australia and also drawing fresh investors to the industrial sector.

Diversified property trust GPT Group is forging deeper into the logistics sector, snapping up three sites in Melbourne’s western industrial heartland as it pours more capital into the area.

A Ballarat investor has traded-in $6.05 million for an investment a little closer to the city, snapping up a property leased to a Jeep dealership.

A big sign that property markets are heading to a downturn is an increase in the number of listings.

The robots are coming to supermarket operator Coles.

Australia’s commercial property market has recorded its slowest year since 2013, despite buyers splashing more than $30 billion on commercial assets nationwide in 2018. Year-end data from CBRE – shows investors ploughed $32.8 billion into …