The CoreNet State of the CRE market panels across the country always bring out a little more than the normal CRE narrative. Recently Brisbane was no exception. Thank you, Danni Toshak, of ACCORP and Tom Broderick of CBRE for your time and fantastic insights. Here are...
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Same week, two different cities and two different markets. Two days after Melbourne’s event was the CoreNet Global State of the CRE Markets event. Thank you to Carissa Gallacher of CBRE and Dominic Brown of C&W for being part of the panel. For the basics stats, according to the Property...
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Last Tuesday Melbourne turned up the heat. Nothing like inspecting office buildings when it is 37 degrees. But by early evening, things had started to cool down just in time for the CoreNet Global State of the CRE markets event at The Executive Centre at Collins Place....
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I have never fully understood the “earn the commute” refrain. I understand the issues with being on a packed bus on a hot and humid Sydney February afternoon with no aircon. It’s no fun but these days very rare. Interesting, not that long ago it...
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The unofficial start to the commercial real estate industry’s year is the release of the Property Council of Australia’s (PCA) Office Market Report (OMR) on the first Thursday of February. It remains the respected industry standard and sets the tone for the year. This year’s Sydney...
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School is back, holidays are over, and it's time to get to work. In our opinion, flex is going to be one of the main themes of the office industry for 2026. If you look at the bigger picture of the economy, geopolitics, and technology - uncertainty...
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Rather than offering a set of predictions before the onslaught of new figures, theories and hopes, we thought it timely to begin 2026 with a recap on where the national office markets currently sit. Across the six main Australian capital city CBD office markets, vacancy remains...
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With the office market structural shift continuing, and the take up of office space slowly decreasing, the office markets can no longer rely on the usual suspects to take up office space on an ever expanding basis. If they could, there would be more cranes...
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Office space absorption has been CREviews’s focus over the last weeks, and we promise this to be the last one for a while. Last week Dror Poleg, Economic Historian, highlighted an article by Chip Cutter of the WSJ (26 October 2025), “More Big Companies Bet They Can...
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On Monday 17th November, the Sydney CBD was the quietest I have seen for ages. I thought it was just me. But the next day as I was having my haircut, I shared my observation with my barber, and he said his numbers were down X%...
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