Tag Archives: capital cities
Commercial Property Cycles ...
Posted on 03. Aug, 2010 by Chris Lang.
How do you ever understand them?
Before talking to you about Commercial property, let's take a quick look at Investment Cycles in general.
A recent AFR article contained this rather clever chart ... showing an Investor's mood at different points throughout the Cycle.
My reading would be that Australia is currently at the "Optimism" stage of the upturn [...]
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The Future for Interest Rates
Posted on 24. Nov, 2009 by Chris Lang.
The RBA's underlying rate of inflation rose by 3.5% in the year to September — less that what the markets and the RBA itself expected.
However, this figure needs to fall significantly for the RBA will put interest rates on hold again.
ith low inventories and industry capacity-use levels up over 80% once more ... you could [...]
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Commercial Construction
Outlook Remains Soft
Posted on 07. Oct, 2009 by Chris Lang.
While Australia's overall business expenditure has remained fairly strong, our Commercial construction and infrastructure outlays are expected to decline by at least 10% this financial year.
BCI Australia is forecasting project construction of some $63 billion 2009-10, which is about $7.7 billion down on that for 2008-09.
In all but for Victoria and South Australia, there was [...]
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CBD Office Markets
Posted on 27. Mar, 2009 by Chris Lang.
As a result of the global financial crisis ... sales of Melbourne CBD Offices fell in 2008 (to $425.2m) from the level achieved in 2007 (of $850.9m) — according to research released by CBRE.
Institutional buyers and REITs have virtually withdrawn from the market ... leaving private syndicates, wealthy families and overseas buyers to transact most [...]
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This is Not Quite the Stuff of Fairytales ...
Posted on 03. Dec, 2008 by Chris Lang.
But for the most of 2008, Australia has basically experienced what you might term a Goldilocks market for Commercial property ... "not too hot, and not too cold!"
Despite Office, Retail and Industrial being near the top of their cycles ... the global turmoil has prevented the usual runaway activity occurring — in most capital Cities.
