Commercial Property Market Trends

Retail and office landlords have led the listed property sector over the calendar year to date as investors search for yield and the stability of landlords with long-dated tenants. This article originally appeared on theaustralian.com.au/property.

Small businesses drove a huge increase in demand for office space across Australia during the second quarter of 2016, with record levels of enquiry.

With the fate of Australia’s leadership hanging in the balance there are significant implications for our commercial property market, depending on how the votes fall in the coming days.

There will be no repeat of Australia’s record commercial property sales from the past two years, experts say, with the market slowing slightly in the last financial year.

Melbourne is on the verge of its last major influx of CBD office space ahead of a shortage that could last beyond 2020, according to new research.

US consumer goods company Spectrum Brands will park its Australasian headquarters and a distribution centre more than double the size of nearby Costco at the Moorabbin Airport business park precinct in Melbourne’s south.

In the past 18 months, there has been a continual compression of capitalisation rates, or cap rates, across Australia’s commercial property markets. So what exactly does this tell us about where the market is now …

Sydney’s new CBD and South East Light Rail network is set to deliver a shot in the arm for commercial property in the city’s south, agents say.

Britain has voted to leave the European Union in a shock referendum result that will see the UK break from the continent. So how will that affect our own property market?