Office

Gone are the days of the sterile corporate office. Here are eight easy tips for creating a cosy office environment that workers will love coming back to.

A Centrelink office, waterfront pub and neighbouring oceanfront homes that may make way for apartments are among a diverse range of commercial properties featuring in this week’s most popular realcommercial.com.au listings.

Australian workers have slowed the pace at which they are returning to offices due to lingering fears about the coronavirus pandemic and the take-up of work-from-home. In worrying trends for landlords and city businesses, less than half space in Sydney was occupied by the end of last month and Melbourne went backwards to under a quarter.

Property fund mangers EG have gone on a spending spree after splashing out $66.1m to acquire a huge 1.44ha site in the heart of Sydney Olympic Park.

Work on a new $450m office tower in Adelaide has begun, with its developer promising to deliver a “new benchmark of excellence” in workplace design. Services Australia will relocate more than 2200 non-customer-facing staff to the new tower 

A 13-storey office building with major redevelopment opportunity at the gateway to Chatswood’s CBD has come to market. The owners are reportedly looking for more than $60 million.

The COVID-19 pandemic will usher in a “new dawn” for Australia’s struggling central business districts, as falling rents spark an influx of smaller, vibrant firms, ­according to a new report from consulting firm PwC.

COVID-19 has prompted a conversation about converting empty offices – abandoned as remote working became the norm – into social housing.

Developers encouraged to push the envelope on environmental efficiency rewarded with Geelong’s healthiest commercial building.