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When Worlds Collide: Case highlights dilemmas around workplace safety, employer liability and WFH

Home Office Peril: Tribunal Compensates Worker Who Tripped Over Pet Fence,

Leading Players In Property Snakes & Ladders Game

Sydney’s Eastern and Norwest suburbs have joined Melbourne’s Docklands and inner-city St Kilda as the best performing major capital city markets on Australia’s eastern seaboard over the previous 12 months. But overall, the eastern seaboard markets’ performance resembles a game of snakes and ladders. While four regions emerged as clear leaders in the year to April 2024, another five capital city markets surveyed by CoreLogic’s Cityscope team are still wrangling with economic headwinds.

Pubs In Celebratory Mode as Market Enters Positive Territory

The pub market is regaining its froth in a big way with some of Sydney’s best known watering holes hitting the market. A flurry of transactions has occurred in just the last few months as the sector enters positive territory marked by strong yields generating interest from the full gamut of investor types. Regional properties are also making a strong showing alongside metro offerings. 

Major Developers Defy Economic Downturn

Major Developers Defy Economic Downturn: Billions Poured into Prime Office and Plush Living Projects Amid Rising Vacancies!

New 'Right to Disconnect' Law Shakes Up Work Norms:

New 'Right to Disconnect' Law Shakes Up Work Norms: How It Will Transform Real Estate and Your Work-Life Balance

Back To The Office – Or Not? Now That Is The Question

Work from Home Woes: Employers Push for Office Return, Igniting Tensions and Threatening Trust with Remote Working Staff

Cybersecurity Part II: Why Data Protection is Critical In Smart Buildings

Smart Buildings, Big Risks: Cybersecurity Threats Soar in Modern Commercial Properties, Prompting Urgent Call for Enhanced Defenses

Time For Businesses To Beef Up Cyber Security

New Cyber Security Strategy Unveiled: Australia Ramps Up Defenses Against Growing Cyber Threats in Corporate Sector.

Transformers: High-Rise Constructions Rolling Out Across City CBDs And Suburbs

Dream Homes in the Sky: Boutique Apartment Complexes Surge, Doubling Prices in Prime Locations as Upscale Living Redefines Cities

How CRE Is Weathering Rate Rises

Commercial Property Investors Unfazed by Rate Hikes. Discover Why They're in a Safe Zone Despite Economic Turbulence.

Hybrid Space Providers On The Up Despite WeWork Woes

WeWork's Dramatic Fall: From $47 Billion to Bankruptcy. Inside the Spectacular Collapse of the Co-Working Giant.

How Pets Are Helping Drive Our Healthcare Sector

Unbelievable Investment Alert: Your Pet's Health Care Could Make You Rich. Discover How The Booming Pet Sector Drives Profits.

New Frontiers For The Modern Office

Revolutionise Your Office Space. Navigate through the hybrid work era with cutting-edge AI tools, optimising utilization and boosting collaborative productivity.

Co-working & Flexible Spaces Reach A New Crossroad

WeWork faced financial struggles due to management issues despite early success, while suburban luxury office spaces gain popularity, with professionals avoiding city commutes and desiring social workplaces.

Retail Investors Read Between The Lines

Despite a nine-month 'retail recession', over $700 million in sub-regional malls sold mid-year. The retail landscape shows resilience with significant transactions and promising forecasts.

How The Retail Sector Can Survive The Rocky Road Ahead

The retail sector is under pressure as the rising cost of living limits consumer spending across the board.

The Key To Successful Hybrid Workforces

"Leaders who are flexible and foster a sense of belonging will be the ones who thrive in the future"

5 Top Workplace Trends for the Year Ahead

Specialised and hyper-focused education and learning will be one of the most important workplace trends this year.

Brisbane Kicking Its Commercial Goals

Brisbane’s commercial sectors are showing renewed strength as the city leaves behind the effects of covid-19.

The Secret Behind Office Appeal & Winning Workers

Recent analysis has revealed over three quarters of employees were dissatisfied with the digital capability in their workplaces

Revising the Rules for Retail in 2023

Friendly staff, effective branding, staying across social media trends and connecting with customers will be essential for a healthy retail business in the coming year analysts say.

Court Findings Pose A Valuable Reminder

Hefty compensation payouts serve as stark reminders for all commercial property stakeholders of their Work, Health and Safety (WHS) obligations

Welcome to Life in the Metaverse

Whether you understand it or not, the metaverse is tipped as the next technological change for office buildings and commercial real estate at large.

Hotels Helping Lead the Heritage Property Revival

The hotel sector is at the forefront of a heritage redevelopment revival with historic buildings featuring prominently among locations for most recent and future openings

Tackling A Tricky Market

"List what sells. If you can’t see yourself buying it, it will be very difficult to sell.”

Making office life attractive for workers of the future

How to make CBD offices attractive to younger workers if not all the time, at least some of the time

Navigating The Rising Interest Rates : An Agent's Perspective

The rising interest rate environment is presenting its own set of challenges for commercial agents, chief among them the increased competition for a smaller pool of buyers.

The Long and Winding Road for Retail

Internet sales peaked at 14.36% of retail turnover in August 2022. There has been a steady decline since - online sales have now contracted to 10.68%

Marketing Tips for Testing Times

Making the most of every opportunity is key to a successful commercial agency

It's Time For Your Annual EOFY Health Check

Inflationary pressures, rising interest rates, extensive flooding, labour shortages and supply chain disruptions are just some of the extenuating factors that have contributed to the trading environment.

How Coworking is Evolving In An Area Near You

From hotels to shopping centres, coworking spaces are popping up as landlords reap benefits from flexible offices near places where people play, shop, exercise and eat.

Why It's Time to Farewell Full-Time Office Life

“In short your office needs to be seen as worth the commute.”

How Fuel Stations Keep Reinventing Winning Formulas

Soaring petrol prices may be hurting our hip pockets, but they are not stopping investors targeting fuel and convenience assets

Why Employers Need Brush Up On Flexible Work Rules

With many businesses embracing flexible working for the first time, employment lawyers are advising employers ensure they are fully across the legalities involved.

Commercial Buyer's Agents: Here to Help

Using a buyer’s agent is something many associate only with purchasing residential real estate. But as the property market continues its ascendancy buyer’s agents are making their presence felt in a big way across commercial real estate – on the agent side as well as the buyer’s. 

Top Tech for the Hybrid Workplace

Expect to see an influx of new office technologies in coming months as hybrid working evolves. From video conferencing to automation, new developments to accommodate a mix of remote and in-office work are being invented and improved at a rate of knots.

ESG Hits Its Stride

Every step of the commercial property process is required to stack up against environmental social governance (ESG) criteria.

New Office Towers Will Win Future Tenants

Developers of Australia’s newest CBD towers are aiming to provide ‘unique points of difference’ as they strive to coax employees from the convenience of home offices.

Companies create Winning Workplaces for the Future

6 Steps companies can take right now along to be well on track for post-pandemic prosperity.

5 Strategies Commercial Agents Can Learn From Residential

With so much change right now, there is a tremendous opportunity for commercial agents to adopt some of these five practices in their business"

Secrets Behind Successful Employee Engagement

Not only are engagement levels of employees faltering, higher-ups are failing to recognise their staff’s declining morale.

Why Remote Bidding Is Here To Stay

Live online auctions are exceeding expectations with commercial agents reporting great success from higher sale prices to greater bidder numbers

Retail Reaps Best Of Both Worlds

Winners in the retail space will combine the pleasantries of in-store shopping with digital and social media strategies.

Time To Master Your Digital Media Marketing

CRE digital marketing is highly targeted and not ‘one size fits all'

Proptech Winners Launch Into the Future

Property technology companies are emerging with all manner of concepts for streamlining the property industry.

Business 'Doubles Down' on New Ways of Working

Business innovation is rising across the country after plunging during the peak of the pandemic

Safer Workplace Push Ignites Proptech Boom

Property companies view technology solutions as key to driving a return to workplaces.

Healthy Workplaces = Hot Property

NABERS is offering the IE rating for free until June 30 this year.

Build-To-Rent Hits the Main Stage

no less than 11 developer groups have projects on the boil

Insolvency Law - Testing Times for Small Business

Businesses are now testing whether the new bankruptcy laws will deliver the easier way forward they promise.

10 Commercial Property Trends from 2020

Commercial Property Guide has compiled a number of articles highlighting some of the emerging new trends in commercial real estate

Festive Times Return to Retail

Some newsagencies are up 25 per cent to 40 per cent year-on-year

Tricks and tips for start up mergers

The 7 stages of any merger or sale

Raising The Bar: Pubs Facing Tricky Times

Publicans will need to be smarter, leaner and more market-savvy than ever during the next 18 months

Firming Up Rules On Flexible Work

The Fair Work Commission is to release a proposed award flexibility schedule to help employers and employees agree on new ways of working.

Working (More) From Home? Three ways to prevent burnout.

Have the feeling your working days are longer than ever despite being hunkered down at home? Chances are your hunch is correct: the largest study so far of how our working habits have changed since the pandemic drove millions into home offices has found a significant leap worldwide in the time and effort we devoted to our employers.

Hope on the Horizon for Hotels and Tourism

In welcome news for the hotel sector, industry analysts and recent job figures signal more than a glimmer of hope on the horizon.

Brush up cyber-hygiene during COVID-19

COVID-19 has attracted cyber criminals en masse - one research agency reporting a 650 % increase in attacks involving emails or text

Commercial Property Guide Special Covid-19 Survey

Commercial agents have experienced significantly different impacts across the major property types. Industrial real estate sales were much less affected. In fact 9% reported a small positive impact on sales volume.

Working with the Enemy

Back to work we will go. People are social creatures and need face to face contact – even at a physical distance.

How marketers are winning their own game of Survivor

The majority of business owners are fearful around issues of space requirements – how much they will or won’t need

COVID-19 and construction: Building the way forward

The pandemic is undoubtedly adding pressure to existing levels of risk regularly managed by contractors, principals and all those in between

Cracking the commercial code of COVID

The motivation behind the federal government’s mandatory code of conduct for landlords and tenants outlined last week sounds simple enough: to shelter both parties from the tidal wave of COVID-19-driven financial stress and place each in the best position to resume operating as normally as possible once the pandemic abates. Yet as the Commercial Tenancies Code framework unfolds  under different state legislatures, there are teething problems aplenty.

The Brave New World of on-line only commercial property

Commercial property companies have been "Zooming" ahead by seamlessly shifting to selling and communicating via on-line means.

Office market message: Keep Calm and Carry on

With the coronavirus (COVID_19) situation changing by the moment – not to mention self-isolation and working from home becoming the new norm – office markets are under the spotlight

Untangling the red tape of the R&D tax incentive

Companies tangling with claiming the government’s troublesome research and development tax incentive (R&DTI) have new hope of a better system after a scathing review of the process

Global Future a Clear View

The State of Thinking Going Forward

2020 forecast bright enough for shades

It will be a good year for those who love experiencing new technology and what it can do for them

Dismissing direct mail as old-fashioned? Think again

Direct mail on the rise as surveys find it is increasingly effective

Box Hill leads the way for Asian community hubs

Box Hill is now offering a genuine alternative to the Melbourne CBD for investment, employment, entertainment and a place to stay

You and the PPSR: How to protect personal property

This is the only way for a landlord to retain priority of ownership should their tenant go belly up.

Green Cleaning - 5 Tips for Commercial Property

Today, more than ever, society is turning toward environmentally friendly solutions with more people choosing to ‘go green’ in their homes and businesses.

Online shopping ignites boom in industrial development

Same day delivery is transforming into same hour delivery. Demand for last-mile industrial and logistics space is integral to this evolution.

The only way is up for non-bank lending

Non-bank lending has evolved in Australian to become increasingly more competitive.

My potential new Commercial property manager?

The overarching problem is often a basic lack of effort, starting with the PM not bothering to visit a site in person, as well as failing to carry out regular market reviews

Photographing your property: Smartphone option

Take a few steps to enhance a smartphone’s capabilities and end up with professional-looking high quality images.

Does Integrating Modern Office Design Lift Staff Morale?

Architects and interior designers have long realised that what they sketch on paper can have huge implications on passive interaction and staff morale.

Devilish detail puts the sting in R&D incentive

The tricky task of defining exactly what kind of R&D projects qualify as eligible has bubbled to the surface thanks to an ATO audit crackdown

How Far Behind the Curve is the Commercial Real Estate?

Commercial real estate is undergoing an evolution as increased demand for flex space and innovation around the office models for procurement and operation are leading to profound change

Activity-Based Workspaces in Your Office Design

The subject of office design has changed considerably over the last decade, moving from a focus on ergonomics to creating a workspace that enhances efficiency.

Rubbish Removal – ACCC Cleans Up Standard Contracts

Message to corporations: clean up your ‘small business’ contracts or run the risk that they will be unenforceable.

Local Traders Associations - a Booster Shot for Retail

The range of help for small business retailers at both the state government and local level is on the rise.

Seven Friction Points on Commercial Property Guide’s 2019 Watchlist

Our sense of the overall commercial property mood is generally upbeat, despite the great uncertainty surrounding us - locally and globally.

The Big Move: Office Relocation Trends and Tips

Once location is decided and the hurdle of availability overcome, the practicalities of moving office come to the fore.

Top tables: Selecting the perfect restaurant site can be tricky

“There really are no hard and fast rules when choosing a restaurant site but being observant and knowledgeable are of far more importance than any gut feelings.”

Hotel Development Surges On Chinese Tourism Growth

Melbourne is experiencing an impressive wave of new hotel development on the back of surging demand in the overseas visitor market

3 Energy Efficient Upgrades

Energy - like any cost is going to be front and centre in the minds of property owners and tenants alike.

Smart Buildings – more than just a box of technology tricks

Intelligent Buildings or Smart Buildings are set to provide real tangible benefits to everyone involved in commercial property.

Chinese Investment in Commercial Real Estate

Australian commercial property remains attractive to Chinese investors despite all that's going on globally

A Wellness KPI: the cost of doing business?

The CEO should have a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) for Staff Wellness.

Retail Startup Options

Three of those non-traditional options are the Consignment model, the Lease Me model, and the Pop Up store. All three are being tried at various levels around Australia at the moment. Commercial Property Guide takes a look at all three models.

Sensory Experience

Creating a sensory experience is something anyone can do, and every office will easily be able to implement these simple ideas into their space to make their workplaces more pleasant and uplifting environments to work in.

Inspiring employees

When work can be done virtually from anywhere, the modern workplace has to justify its continued existence. The most innovative and nimble companies aren’t seeing the current state of agile work as a threat, something to be reacted to by desperately clinging to the old ways of doing things.

maintain security

In business today, thanks to significant advances in networking and mobile technologies more and more employees are working from home, or close to home or in co-working spaces.

How do you get "Sales" to talk to "Marketing" and keep these two pivotal function working together, Here are some basic tools you can put in place to help turn your business idea into a practical business.

It’s often thought that entrepreneurs are born with a thirst to create new ideas and shape them into successful businesses. Entrepreneurs are thought as heroes, or born leaders who are driven by something mysterious deep inside. Although this may be true for many entrepreneurs, according to Harvard, you can learn to be an entrepreneur. And they have been doing it since 2000.

Running a busy business comes with a whole stack of pressure and bad habits can set in. Give these a kick with simple self-talk changes.

Whatever is it you want to achieve in your personal or work life it's not enough to just set goals and think they are going to happen.

Everyone wants their teams communicating effectively, but how exactly do you achieve that?

Sales can mean so much more than just bottom line revenue when they are mixed with sales data, however many businesses don't collect the right information to tell these stories.

Finding the perfect staff member is a long journey. It’s a marathon of effort but with the right tools, it doesn’t have to be.

Trends come and go, but it looks like the trend towards more and more people working from home is here to stay.

Are you considering buying and occupying a commercial property? We've broken down the process to help you make the transition from renter to owner.

Sometimes in retail, change moves quicker than you might be ready for. So, how do you figure out what you need and when you need to change it?

As you start your business, sometimes cash flow can be a little low, so why not up skill yourself with some free courses. Here are a few we can recommend that could prove useful for your business in its early stages where you're wearing all the hats.

When your business starts to really ramp up you may need to find an online storage system to save you from pulling your hair out.

Apps and online services come in handy when you are not necessarily a professional at every skill a business may need. Why not try some of these great apps to help you get ahead.

Every year the Australian Tax Office (ATO) makes some changes to policies, some of these can mean a great windfall for small business.

There is nothing more daunting than going out into business on your own. After fine tuning your skills, how do you know what is the best rate to charge your potential new clients?

After a little while working from the home office can get a little dull. Here are 10 handy tips to keep working from home fresh as...

Starting out on your own can be an exciting process. One decision to make may be whether to open a business or a practice. What's the difference, why choose one over the other and what is the best way to decide what's right for you?

Most people have heard the phrase location, location, location but if you are in the throes of planning a new business venture the location may not be top of mind, particularly if foot traffic isn't key to the business. So, why does location matter so much?

As schoolies week comes along this year, business owners are left with time to consider that, as yet another year has almost passed, is there something that we could learn from this years school leavers?

From starting with an idea, to building a team, our complete business startup list offers everything you need to get your business out of your head and into the community.

Being able to manage clashes at your work successfully is important for you and your co-workers.

Your business should be as individual as you are, but when it comes to finding a location for your business you may need to find a spot that has other businesses just like yours to help support and grow your business.

With tax time here again, the new changes to asset depreciation tax means good news to your bottom line.

As you sell more products or services and your customer base grows so too will the demands on your time. This is the perfect time then to consider expanding your team from a one-man show to a fully-fl

The dispute resolution process can be referred to using many different, overly legal sounding ways but it can be basically broken down to this, if you have a dispute within your business there are a v

Many people have no clue how to bridge the gap between new ideas to a fully-fledged business. The devil can be in the detail so making sure you have completed all your legal requirements, have a sound

Having a great idea can really energise you to open a new business but there are a few vital actions you will need to do or consider before you start handing out your business card.

In a society where we have much available to us when starting or running a business, from new furniture and new computers to low cost paper and stationery orders, who says that we can't also save the