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Property bubble debate heats up

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... properties bought or sold in the city within two years. Speaking about APRA's measures to tighten lending, Property Investment Professionals of Australia (PIPA) chief executive Ben Kingsley said: "We recognise that marketplaces like Sydney and Melbourne ...

ACCC approves Federations Centres and Novion merger

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... the way for the new combined group to become a major player in Australia's highly concentrated institutional property investment marketplace. Federation Centres and Novion own or co-own a combined 92 shopping centres across Australia and following divestiture ...

Property groups looking through the schooner glass

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... Woolworths' businesses became Charter Hall's largest tenant customer, with the contribution to Charter Hall's Property Investment earnings from Woolworths' subsidiaries reportedly increasing to 22%. At the Charter Hall media briefing, head of investor ...

FEATURE: Australia's other love affair

FINANCIAL STANDARD  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
Property investment is tangible, attractive and easy to understand for the average investor. There has arguably never been so much discussion around property with some experts saying Australia is going through a housing bubble fuelled by low interest ...

AustralianSuper buys $370m stake in Boston building

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
AustralianSuper has acquired a 49% stake in a building in Boston following a joint venture partnership with US-based Brookfield Property Partners. The property is valued at US$605 million (about $760 million), of which US$296.45 million (around $370 ...

Gearing for SMSFs won't be significant: Colley

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... an industrial fund, are coming from superannuation so it's quite a high portion," Stacker said. Colley said property investment accounted for about 15% of the total pool of SMSFs and it was a misconception that most investment was in residential prop ...

No changes to neg gearing, super in Budget

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... gearing or superannuation. On speculation that the government might act to limit negative gearing on residential property investment, when Prime Minister Tony Abbott was asked at a media conference if the tax breaks would be wound back, he answered with ...

ASIC bans Charterhill director from financial services

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2015
... director. This announcement follows ASIC's ongoing investigation into the Charterhill Group, which focused on property investment through SMSFs and went into insolvency in January 2014 with over $10 million owed to creditors. Businesses in the group ...

AustralianSuper adds London site to property portfolio

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
AustralianSuper has bought a 25% stake in a large mixed-use property investment in London's King's Cross. The purchase is the $84 billion industry super fund's first direct London investment and only its second in the UK. AustralianSuper will join the ...

AustralianSuper inks $1.1bn US property deal

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2015
AustralianSuper undertaken its biggest single direct property transaction and has invested almost $1.1 billion in a property in the United States. The super fund has acquired a 25% stake in Honolulu's Ala Moana Center from US S&P 500 company General ...