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Sustained investor appetite for alternative asset classes into Q4 2019, combined with elevated office market transactions, supported record yearly investment into Australian commercial real estate of $45.6 billion, according to Cushman & Wakefield research.

John Sears • 21/01/2020

2019 marked a significant decrease in the rate of rental growth in the Melbourne and Sydney CBD prime office markets, as tenant demand slowed on softer business conditions, according to the latest Cushman & Wakefield quarterly Office Marketbeat.

John Sears • 13/01/2020

In the second time that the platinum retail asset has traded in as many years, The Huang family has sold the iconic ‘Buckley’s Bar’ site on the waterfront at Circular Quay to a Macao based investor for $25.1m, representing a net yield of 3.5%.

Anthony Bray • 31/12/2019

Cushman & Wakefield has today announced it has strengthened its Retail Leasing team in Victoria with the appointment of Stephanie Harding as Manager, Retail Leasing.

Michael Di Carlo • 09/12/2019

Charter Hall and Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board have jointly acquired the 47-storey A-grade commercial office tower at 242 Exhibition Street, in the Melbourne CBD, in an off-market $830 million transaction.

17/07/2019

Cushman & Wakefield, has today announced it has significantly strengthened its commercial real estate platform with the appointment of Simon Fenn as Managing Director of the New South Wales agency business.

16/05/2019

Global commercial real estate firm, Cushman & Wakefield, has been appointed to sell the freehold interest in Australia’s most prominent harbourfront retail site located at ‘Opera Quays’, Circular Quay with customer views of icons including the Sydney Harbour Bridge and the Opera House.

Anthony Bray • 29/04/2019

Cushman & Wakefield, jointly with Savills, today announced it has been appointed by the City of Brisbane Investment Corporation (CBIC) to sell a three-storey, A-grade commercial office building at 665 Fairfield Road, Yeerongpilly.

28/03/2019

The Australian office market is set to drive national commercial real estate investment volumes higher in 2019, with nearly $8bn in office asset sales currently on the market across the country. Once transacted, this pipeline will add to the $3.2 billion in office deals already completed in Q1 2019 – 66% of the market-wide quarterly investment total of $5.46 billion.

John Sears • 27/03/2019

Cushman & Wakefield today announced it has appointed Brad Nelson as National Director, Debt Solutions, establishing a national property financing and debt markets capability to complement its existing agency platform.

James Patterson • 27/03/2019

Cushman & Wakefield (NYSE: CWK) today announced the acquisition of one of South Australia’s largest trade services businesses, Smith Brothers Group (Smith Brothers), comprising 200 people, enhancing the company’s facilities services across Australia and New Zealand. The team will join Cushman & Wakefield’s Australian occupier services platform and be part of the company’s global occupier services network that manages 3.5B SF across the world.

James Patterson • 07/03/2019

Cushman & Wakefield today announced the sale and lease of adjacent properties at 35 and 37 Laser Drive respectively, in the suburb of Rowville in Melbourne’s south east.

Jordie Cassidy • 05/03/2019