COVID-19

Australian office tenants are relocating and upgrading their workplaces to encourage employees to ditch working from home.

Occupier enquiry for office space during the past quarter has risen 30% compared to the same period in 2019, with prime grade assets attracting strong interest to lure new staff and see the workforce return from working from home.

The Covid pandemic has tested our reliance on global supply chains. As a result, Australia’s food processing and distribution sector is enjoying a well needed boost. Charter Hall is the latest investor to jump in.

Childcare and early learning centres are dealing with staff shortages and ventilation challenges as the school year begins. Will Covid uncertainty hurt one of commercial real estate’s star performers?

The collapse of a $3bn-plus bid for Link Group looks to have largely come down to price rather than any glaring red flags.

Empty offices and shopping centres as coronavirus restrictions keep people at home have boosted interest in commercial property, as the power dynamic shifts between tenants and landlords.

What will be the impact of the current variant of the coronavirus, COVID-19, on the office property market cycles? The reality is that we don’t really know yet how bad the virus will be, let alone the impact. But what seems clear is that it will spread widely and burn out.

Major building projects involving shops, offices, airports and hotels are set to be delayed by at least a month because of the corona­virus, amid calls for a national ­security strategy to bolster the country’s fuel and medicine stocks.