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Australia’s property market may be cooling after a five-year boom but the economy is still reaping the benefits.

Rents for office space in Sydney and Melbourne will continue to rise in 2018, as a result of the “tightest vacancy rates in the world”.

Agents in South Australia say investors are already pinpointing the southern state as a major target for 2018, with more attractive yields on offer than what they can find on the eastern seaboard.

Commercial property behaved mostly as expected in 2017.

Most Australians are still buying Christmas presents from bricks-and-mortar shopping centres des­pite the much-discussed trend to online commerce and local launch of Amazon, a new survey shows. 

National hotel investment levels dropped nearly 50% this year to $1.4 billion due to a lack of saleable hospitality assets and a tightening of overseas capital.

The mood across the property ­industry is cautiously upbeat heading into the new year, with the office sector still looking brighter than retail despite this week’s blockbuster Westfield deal.

Australian offices are changing at a dramatic pace and workers fully expect that by 2030, wellness facilities will be as common as desks and chairs, and most of us won’t drive ourselves to work, according to …

Todd Mullins and his wife, Julie, started going to a shopping centre 15 minutes from their Palm Beach Gardens home in Florida about a year ago — after they joined a gym inside it. They …