Strata office

One of the Gold Coast’s most iconic office towers has been listed for sale, as strata office vacancies reach a seven-year low.

Offices are piquing ­interest in Melbourne’s CBD strata market, with values rising up to 30% in the past 18 months.

AFL careers rarely have a perfect ending, but Nick Lower found a silver lining with a job in commercial real estate.

A description for “creative industries” has been done to death but it really means a move away from the generic, CBD-style office with false ceilings and grey carpet to warehouse-style buildings with exposed building “bones”. …

The darling of 2013 in the property market proved itself to be the residential market, with development sites also hot. For commercial, retail property sales were still in demand, office sales were positive and office leasing remained stable.

With vacancy rates and incentives rising, many in the media are calling the office market oversupplied. But that conclusion has been drawn too fast, Paul Thornhill finds.