Woolworths Group announces COVID-19 vaccination roadmap for Australian team
Woolworths Group has announced its intention to introduce a new requirement for Australian team members to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in the coming months. The policy is intended to strengthen...
Kate Nason to boost Frasers Property Australia’s sustainability team
Frasers Property Australia has appointed experienced architect and environmental designer Kate Nason as Sustainability Advisor, boosting its highly talented sustainability team. Having previously held roles with Atelier Ten, ARKit and...
SCCA Marketing Awards: Winners announced
The Shopping Centre Council of Australia (SCCA) have announced the winners of the 2021 SCCA Marketing Awards via a virtual Awards Ceremony filmed live from the Hyatt Regency in Sydney...
Ownership in Macquarie Centre and Pacific Fair secured in record $2.2 billion deal
AMP Capital today announced new partners in the AMP Capital Retail Trust (ACRT). UniSuper, one of Australia’s leading superannuation funds and Cbus Property, one of Australia’s leading property investors and...
Tipalea to build new retail centre in Devonport, Tasmania
Retail property developer Tipalea Partners has acquired a significant development site from Bunnings in Stony Rise and has announced plans to develop a new $40 million neighbourhood retail centre by...
Precision Group partners with Life Education
Property investment company Precision Group have announced a three-year strategic partnership with Life Education Australia. The partnership will contribute to Life Education’s goal to reach at least one million children...
VMO secures $550m Queen Street Village development on the Gold Coast
Leading digital-outdoor provider, Val Morgan Outdoor (VMO), announces a major win securing the exclusive tender for the new Queen Street Village development on the former Gold Coast Hospital site at...
Woolworths Group to sell major NSW south coast shopping centre
Woolworths Group is set to sell Sapphire Marketplace, a triple major sub-regional shopping centre located in Bega on NSW’s south coast, following continued strong investor demand for non-discretionary retail investment...
Rhodes Central brings to life the first stage of a $2.5b Town Centre that was previously an industrial waste land
In the past 90 days, 1,500 people have moved into Rhodes Central’s newest residential towers and this week the shops, cafés and restaurants in the first stage of a new...
HomeCo Daily Needs REIT to merge with Aventus Group
HomeCo Daily Needs REIT (HDN) has announced that HDN and Home Consortium (HMC), (together HomeCo) have entered into a binding Scheme Implementation Deed (SID) with Aventus Group (AVN) to acquire...
GPT grows logistics portfolio and discusses sale of Wollongong Central and Casuarina Square
The GPT Group today announced the acquisition of a portfolio from Ascot Capital, comprising 23 Logistics assets and one Office asset for $681.7 million. GPT also confirms it is in...
Peter Burdon-Smith Joins Mirvac as Director of Retail Leasing
With more than 25 years in the Australian retail industry, including senior roles at AMP Capital, Scentre Group and QIC, Peter Burdon-Smith moves to Mirvac this week as Director of...
Sandhurst Retail & Logistics submits plans for $100m Sunbury South major town centre
Sandhurst Retail & Logistics (SRL) has submitted an Urban Design Framework (UDF) to the city of Hume for its $100 million major town centre in Sunbury South, expanding the build-and-hold...
Colliers launches APAC ESG Task Force with Lisa Hinde as Head of Sustainability
Colliers has announced its Asia Pacific ESG Task Force and Net Zero Pledge by 2030. Led by Andrew Watson, Chief Financial Officer Asia Pacific, the task force will drive the...
AMP Capital signs second renewable electricity agreement on behalf of UniSuper, accelerating the Fund’s path to Net Zero Carbon
AMP Capital has signed a three-year agreement with renewable electricity retailer SmartestEnergy. The deal will see the AMP Capital managed component of UniSuper’s direct property portfolio become carbon neutral from...
New research shines a light on the benefits of reward-based marketing promotions
Blackhawk Network has released the latest in global research to assist businesses to succeed. According to the new report conducted by Aberdeen Research, Australian businesses are reporting an average 27% higher...
Pete Wylie joins Assembly Funds Management as Head of Capital
Assembly Funds Management (AFM) has appointed Pete Wylie to the newly created role of Head of Capital based in Sydney. Wylie joins AFM from Lendlease where he has held various roles...
Pacific Fair named Queensland’s Retail Property of the Year 2021
The AMP Capital-managed Pacific Fair Shopping Centre has taken out the top honour as Queensland’s Retail Property of the Year 2021 at the annual Property Council of Australia’s Queensland Retail...
Vicinity acquires 50% stake in Harbour Town Gold Coast for $358 million
The Lendlease managed Australian Prime Property Fund Retail (APPF Retail) has reached conditional agreement on the sale of its 50% interest in Harbour Town Gold Coast to Vicinity Centres for...
Primewest Secures Northgate Shopping Centre and Potts Point Retail Centre
Centuria Capital Group subsidiary, Primewest, has secured two retail assets – Northgate shopping centre in Geraldton for $71.2 million and Woolworths-anchored daily needs retail precinct within Potts Point’s OMNIA mixed-used development for...
oOh! strengthens national retail portfolio with Hawaiian win and digital rollout
oOh!media has strengthened its partnership with WA property group Hawaiian, signing a new agreement to install Out of Home media assets into its shopping centres, while also rolling out more...
Armada Dandenong Plaza celebrates Diwali Festival and commences centre upgrades
Armada Dandenong Plaza, is situated in one of the most multi-cultural suburbs in Australia in Melbourne. The centre celebrates a number of cultural calendar event’s annually with Diwali, the festival...
Ed.Square Town Centre combats loneliness with wellness-driven architecture
South-west Sydney’s newest town centre delivers community, retail, leisure and living to one of Australia’s fastest growing populations. HDR – the design studio behind Ed.Square Town Centre, have described it as an...
The Streets of Barangaroo launches a love letter to Sydney
Lendlease launches the first instalment of its new video series – Sydney isn’t Sydney without you – a love letter to Sydney from our city’s beating heart, The Streets of...
Karrinyup celebrates launch of next stage with leading Australian & international designers
Perth’s premier fashion and lifestyle destination Karrinyup will celebrate the launch of the next stage of the new-look centre today with an assortment of centre-wide activities, headlined by an exclusive...
Mirvac launches all-inclusive body positive 50-day fashion festival Toombul Shopping Centre
Women of all shapes, sizes, backgrounds, and styles across Brisbane are invited to a 50-day fashion festival at Mirvac’s Toombul Shopping Centre. Kicking off on Wednesday 6 October, body-positive fashion...
Scentre Group extends centre experience with launch of Westfield Direct
Scentre Group’s Australian customers can now shop from any Westfield any time, with the launch of Westfield Direct. Today’s launch is just the beginning of the Westfield Direct experience with...
World-first drone delivery takes off from shopping centre in QLD
In a world-first, Vicinity Centres has partnered with Wing – an Alphabet company – to pilot a new model of delivery, flying goods from shopping centre rooftops directly to Australian...
Perron sells 50% stake in Runaway Bay Shopping Centre for $128 million
Perth’s Greenpool Capital in partnership with investment firm Qualitas has made its latest retail play, acquiring a 50% stake in the Gold Coast’s Runaway Bay Shopping Centre for $128 million....
VOGUE Australia presents Adelaide’s biggest shopping weekend
While other major capital cities remain in lockdown, Adelaide will become host to one of the biggest shopping weekend’s the city has ever seen from the 8th to 10th October....
Australian retail turnover falls 1.7% in August while consumer sentiment remains high
Australian retail turnover fell 1.7% in August 2021, seasonally adjusted, according to the Retail Trade figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). This third consecutive monthly fall in...
Elanor establishes new managed fund to acquire $136 million Warrawong Plaza
Elanor Investors Group (ENN) has established Warrawong Plaza Fund to acquire the Warrawong Plaza shopping centre for $136.35 million. The acquisition reflects an attractive 7.75% fully leased yield and $3,143...
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