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Tawrrific APEC and the Berlin Wall

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2007
... flower boxes have been refreshed and Sydney's answer to the Berlin wall, a five-kilometre, 2.8-metre-high fence around the CBD is in its final stages of completion. The Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation summit of world leaders, kicking off this Friday ...

LGSS expands direct property assets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2007
NSW-based industry super fund Local Government Superannuation Scheme has acquired a $41 million Sydney CBD office tower in an effort to bolster its direct property portfolio. Located at 120 Sussex St, the nine-storey building has been renovated to include ...

SMSFs and mergers drive Macq property fund growth

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2007
... storey, 8,400 sqm office building at 71 Queens Road, Melbourne, for $26.25m and the June acquisition of 50 per cent of an eighth CBD office building at 81 St Georges Terrace, Perth, for $21.1m The fund has also engaged in three separate mergers, committing ...

CFS ploughs $280m in Myer property

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2007
... uses above the Lonsdale Street retail development. "Rarely in Australia is an opportunity presented to invest in such a prime CBD retail asset, and fewer still which provide the opportunity to deliver more than 70,000 square metres of space in a modern ...

Get outta town

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2007
... APEC summit of world leaders, to be held from 7-9 September, is expected to cause traffic and transport chaos in the Sydney CBD, and the Government says it will be best for all concerned if Sydney-siders simply leave. While the 21 world leaders attending ...

Property 'extreme makeover' a winning formula: FKP

... keep on doing those type of opportunities." Learmonth said they shirk away from trophy assets and prefer to invest in fringe CBD properties or those that may be at good locations but are 'out of favour' or under a distressed sale. Michelle Baltazar

Go green, go dim

... Group, fund manager of the country's largest listed office portfolio and operates more than 20 per cent of space in the Sydney CBD. "We are asking more than 400 of our tenants to turn off their lights on the night and we will also turn off all the external ...

Superwoman joins Millenium 3

... Superwoman Financial Solutions Group. Next year will be a busy year for the group with plans to open offices in the Sydney CBD, Melbourne and Brisbane. Superwoman is also looking for locations in Crows Nest, Manly, Avalon, Balmain and Randwick, all in ...

Super fund ARIA buys Chifley Square

... after shelling out $84.5 million for a 92 per cent stake in 1 Chifley Square, an iconic building at the heart of the Sydney CBD. One of ARIA's real estate investment managers, Arcadia Funds Management, bought the property from entities associated with ...

Demand absorbs 9 per cent increase in office supply: PCA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 AUG 2006
... supply." The most competitive office markets, at least for tenants, are Canberra, Brisbane and Perth, he said. While Sydney's CBD vacancy rate is the highest of any CBD market in the country, it also showed signs of improvement. "Despite the economic ...