The deal highlights strong appetite from foreign players for position in Australia’s industrial market, where vacancy rates are around 3 per cent in some capitals.
The property is one of Victoria’s largest cattle stations and is home to Stone Axe Pastoral Company, a prominent, private-equity backed Wagyu producer.
The deal is indicative of the changing of tides in the property sector after a downward cycle. Private syndicators are early movers back into the market.
For a few years, it’s been a matter of survival for the sector. House prices are rising again, yet the legacy of high construction costs has cruelled supply.
Super fund giants Hostplus and UniSuper are spearheading a move to replace Lendlease with its rival Mirvac in running a prized property funds business.
A vote on replacing Lendlease as manager for a $2 billion fund has been adjourned. It’s a first-round win as the property giant fights for its funds empire.
Big emitters, including the mining giant, will be tapping the offsets market as Australia races to meet its 2035 climate targets and farming becomes a focus.
The ASX-listed property giant is threatening to call its own vote to depose Mirvac from managing the real estate vehicles if it is itself dumped this month.
A scarcity of blue-collar workers has pushed up incomes and construction costs for housing. Builders say more skilled immigrants are needed to ease the pain.
The logistics property giant is reinventing itself as a data centre player anchored in artificial intelligence. A surge in earnings is making everyone rich.
Australia’s biggest shopping centre group owns a vast land bank around its malls, which it says can be redeveloped into thousands of new dwellings to fill the housing pipeline.