Investment News

A beauty therapist who gets $700k a year in net rental income from her $20m portfolio of 20 properties has revealed one key decision made her real estate empire possible.

COVID-busting businesses including small retail sites, childcare centres, medical facilities and service stations have powered almost $190 million in auction sales across Australia’s three largest cities.

High yields and strong returns are great reasons to begin a commercial portfolio. But there are other important factors to consider too.

The industrial sector continues to outperform other asset classes nationally, with regional centres along the east coast outstripping capital cities thanks to record migration levels and pandemic-related e-commerce demand, new research shows.

Industrial real estate has been a strong contender for the best performing commercial asset class over the past year and particularly so over the last six months.

Lending for boutique residential properties in some of Melbourne’s and Sydney’s most sought-after suburbs has proved a recipe for success for non-bank lender Pallas Capital.

The pandemic-propelled demand for cold storage facilities has seen it become a valuable, yet scarce, commodity. A run of recent sales reveals the strength of the cold storage and food distribution property sector as an asset class.

A Bendigo building tenanted by Australia Post, sold for $6.375 million this week in a competitive auction that saw a Melbourne investor win-out against a local bidder. Recent commercial sales in the City of Bendigo have reflected the interest of interstate investors in Victoria’s fourth largest city.

An Officeworks in Albury and a Melbourne childcare centre both sold for more than $10 million as investors chased regional commercial assets and early learning properties in portfolio auction sales. Burgess Rawson sold 37 of the 38 commercial properties on offer at its portfolio auctions this week for a combined $131 million.