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The beachside Apollo Bay Hotel, which looks out over the Southern Ocean breakers on Victoria’s popular surf coast, is changing hands.
Commercial property sales boomed through 2021, with big investors chasing security and yield setting a new benchmark of $71 billion in transactions.
Investors are snapping up commercial properties in Australia with the rare support of Hong Kong buyers.
Organisations are now more concerned with health and safety essentials, such as indoor air quality, touchless technologies and appropriate distancing.
Strong Asian investment into commercial property is driving a string of seven-figure sales in locked down Sydney.
Singapore is now the second-largest buyer of Australian real estate, only trailing the United States.
Several factors have come together to create a perfect storm of soaring demand for industrial property across many parts of the world.
A pub, a tyre centre and a fast food restaurant all set records, as investors chasing yield spent $76.5 million on commercial property.

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There is no one-size-fits-all answer when it comes to how interest rate increases will impact investors but property market experts argue it could be an opportunistic time for savvy investors to capitalise.
Australia’s largest building company, Metricon, has denied reports that it is facing insolvency or at risk of joining a long line of major builders to go into liquidation.
Busselton was the top performing regional centre in Western Australia for price growth during the March 2022 quarter, with its median house sale price increasing 5.5 per cent.
Commercial property specialist Scott O’Neill assesses the pros and cons of investing in commercial property in the city compared to the regions.
It is the Labor Party that has assumed office and it is their policies that will shape the Australian housing landscape in the coming four years.

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