Commercial real estate
Meet the man trying to bring back Sydney’s verandahs
There’s an awning gap between the wide shady spaces of the streets of the past and cities we live in today. James Cottam wants them back.
- by Julie Power
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The season’s most stylish status symbols come from luxury hotels
Wearing items from a beloved hotel property has suddenly become the hottest fashion flex.
- by Sarah Rappaport
Australia’s richest barrister buys into east end tower
Allan Myers KC has made another city investment, well away from his agricultural interests.
- by Nicole Lindsay
Strong win from supermarkets for elite sports doctor
High-profile sports doctor Peter Brukner has made a tidy profit, selling a Bellarine Peninsula supermarket to a first-time Chinese investor.
- by Nicole Lindsay
How a 1960s orange-brick warehouse became a home with steel that resembles fabric
Architect Stephen Jolson has transformed a 1960s warehouse into a spectacular home.
- by Stephen Crafti
The Manhattanisation of Sydney
Sydney’s city skyline is being transformed into a mini Manhattan with luxury residential towers soaring out of the ground to replace the increasingly embattled office skyscrapers.
- by Carolyn Cummins
APH sell-down yields a deal in Hawthorn
The Chinese-backed investor and developer has properties with a total value of $200 million on the market, including its prized Forest Hill project.
- by Nicole Lindsay
How a Robin Boyd house came to the rescue of a working couple
Ember House in suburban Melbourne has brought one couple’s competing dream to life.
- by Stephen Crafti
Australia’s cities no longer ghost towns as workers, travellers and students return
City retailers are popping the champagne corks as workers return to the office, international tourists and students fly in and shoppers come back for weekend visits.
- by Carolyn Cummins
Sydney pub sold for $70 million-plus in biggest sale of the year
Pub veteran John Ryan has splashed out more than $70 million for the Tea Gardens pub in Sydney’s east in what is the largest deal this year in the booming hotel sector.
- by Carolyn Cummins
Westfield centres ramp up security as shoppers return
The retail landlord says it has “materially” increased security and is refreshing its tenants to lure back shoppers battling the cost-of-living crisis.
- by Carolyn Cummins