Government Commercial Property News

The Gold Coast could become the first place in Australia with a “memorial reef” that would double as an artificial dive site and an underwater cemetery.

Multinational tech giant Google on Thursday cut the ribbon in its new Melbourne office, but declared its Australian headquarters will remain in Sydney.

Tender for the sale of the old Geelong Gaol have closed with the City of Greater Geelong to now assess them.

The Foreign Investment Review Board is the only entity standing in the way of the $157 million sale of Melbourne’s sprawling landmark the Bell City Hotel to offshore interests. 

The contest to develop new skyscrapers above railway stations for Sydney’s planned metro network has drawn some the biggest names in local and international property, with local giant Lendlease going up against Canada’s Brookfield, a bid by Spanish-backed giant CIMIC and Grocon and another from Malaysia’s UEM Sunrise.

Despite repeated calls to decentralise the NSW public service, and push workers into the ­regions, one of the state’s biggest commercial office space users, the NSW government, is seeking up to 22,000sqm of high-quality ­office space in Sydney CBD or the southern CBD in a bid to amalgamate several agencies. 

A Ryde property that was once home to the former RTA has sold for $3.756 million.

The face of Melbourne’s arts precinct at Southbank will be changed forever under an ambitious $200 million plan to revamp the city’s cultural heartland. As part of the project, a new gallery named NGV Contemporary …

The US consulate will move from Sydney’s CBD for the first time in 25 years, and into North Sydney.