National Commercial Property News

Canada’s NorthWest Healthcare Properties Real Estate, which this year teamed up with private equity in a successful $4.4 billion takeover of Australia’s second-largest private hospital operator Healthscope, will start selling off as much as $390 million worth of property in Australia.

As our cities grow, governments and planners like to provide facilities that make their cities good places to live and work. And we like to encourage workplaces close to where people live, both to reduce the transport task and to reduce travel times. Hence planning and zoning to provide sites for buildings and infrastructure to underwrite that growth.

The steep rise in commercial property values could place the creditworthiness of some real estate investment trusts under pressure, according to Moody’s Investors Service.

The struggles of US retailers cannot be directly translated to the Australian market as American cities are swamped with physical retail space while retail space in local capitals is still constrained.

“Is it too late to invest in the Sydney and Melbourne office markets? Is it too early for Brisbane and Perth?”

The Goodman Group has defied a slowdown in the domestic economy and Brexit uncertainty in the UK, as the warehouse operator rides the wave of fast-paced growth of e-commerce.

The world’s first guitar-shaped hotel is open for business, but you don’t have to stay there to enjoy the show. The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida, is part of a property expansion …

Canadian behemoth Brookfield has won a major foothold in Australia’s retirement living sector, with Aveo shareholders voting to approve its takeover scheme.

Industrial property is one of the least understood sectors in real estate as few people interact with it on a day-to-day basis.