DESPITE subdued growth by 'anchor' stores in shopping centres during the 2014-2015 financial year (FY15), the changing mix in centres is contributing to specialty shop outperformance, according to leading property and planning consultants, Urbis.
AUSTRALIA'S peak body for the planning industry last week announced the winners of the 2015 Australia Award for Urban Design, with Western Australian projects and programs taking two of five main awards.
THE record-beating residential building boom has already reached its peak and will soon begin to run out of steam, according to leading industry analyst and economic forecaster, BIS Shrapnel.
Low interest rates will support further price growth in undersupplied residential markets in 2015/16, but the spectre of tightening interest rates and deterioration of affordability will create conditions for price declines in a number of cities from 2017, according to leading industry analyst and economic forecaster, BIS Shrapnel.
NEW rail lines in Sydney and Melbourne, a new road tunnel in Brisbane and a major civic and cultural precinct in Perth are some of the big projects due to open in 2015 – at a combined cost of almost $8 billion.
