Inner City Commercial Property News

Popular and historic South Melbourne pub the Wayside Inn has been put on the leasing market, just months after a major makeover.

Sydney’s pub market is starting the year strongly, with the Lidcombe Hotel in western Sydney’s gaming heartland selling for more than $50 million and the high-profile Hotel Steyne at beachside Manly hitting the market for about $65m.

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‘Aussie’ John Symond has listed the Double Bay building famous as the onetime home of Robyn Cosgrove Rugs, later fashion icon Trent Nathan and then Country Trader.

Ordering high-end marble from Italy – with a three-month wait for delivery – is something normally associated with luxury residential builds or upmarket renovations. But when Sydney’s Quay West hotel at The Rocks revamped its …

Hoteliers and gaming magnates the Zagame family have made a major play in Melbourne’s office and development site market, snapping up the Australian Education Union’s former Victorian branch headquarters in Abbotsford.

Singaporean group ARA Asset Management is looking to put its mark on Sydney’s commercial property market early this year with the purchase of a $300 million office project in the harbourfront suburb of Pyrmont.

The developer of the troubled Opal Tower has pulled out of its bid to win the lucrative rights to redevelop the high profile Sirius Building in Sydney’s Rocks district following a lobbying effort by powerful NSW councillors and MPs.

Timber buildings are the flavour of the month in the tower design and construction world, and the University of New South Wales is the latest group to jump in on the trend.