Commercial Property Market Trends

It’s one of our fastest growing industries, controlling billions of dollars’ worth of real estate, yet few portfolio managers or private investors pay Australian universities a lot of attention.

  Office space is one of the most popular commercial property classes to invest in. And there are good reasons for this. Investing in office space can be a lucrative business.

As more and more retail goes online, well-located and flexible warehouse space is becoming increasingly desirable and harder to find. We spoke to the experts about recent trends in the industrial warehouse market, including what factors to take into account when searching for your perfect warehouse space.

Last year there was an unexpected resurgence in industrial property sales, with trusts taking advantage of improved capital conditions and private investors demonstrating their continued appetite for high yielding assets in a low interest rate …

Investor activity in the industrial real estate market continues to increase in 2014. Solid returns on assets and the low cost of funds are attracting investors of all types to the market. We spoke to …

  Australian hotels are emerging as more than just a place to lay your head. Investors spent about $4 billion on hotels in the past two years – well up on the five-year average of …

There are 1.84 million sqm of vacant industrial space across Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane – 28% more than a year ago. New figures show the amount of empty space shrunk in the past six months …

Three years ago, heritage activists were up in arms as developers took down Brisbane’s historic Regent Theatre – built in movie’s golden age – to make way for a new, 38-storey office tower. Against wails …

Investors hit the stores in Victoria last year, snapping up nine neighbourhood shopping centres for a combined value of close to $200 million. That compares with similar shopping centre sales of $60 million in 2012 …