With Sydney CBD office space constrained, Lend Lease’s mixed-use precinct Barangaroo South will be Sydney’s new financial hub. Amal Awad reports. It’s one of the most talked about developments in Australia, and it’s set to make an international...

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Land and development Change you can believe in Over the past few years, descriptions relating to land sales and development have oscillated between the colourful and the apocalyptic....

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Who would have known back in July 2005 that the winning bidding city for the 2012 Olympics Games was going to have to host the Olympics—itself a huge...

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It’s easy to get lost in the grand scope of it all – a development area spanning almost 2 million sq ft (185,873 million sqm) gross of mixed use space in Central London; a new business district that will supply office, residential, leisure and retail space, as well as a public piazza, new station concourse and bus station. It is located adjacent to one of London’s busiest...

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European real estate investment picked up very strongly in December to boost total volumes for the full-year 2011 to USD 155.8 billion (EUR 118.7 billion), up by 15% year-on-year....

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The United States’ total preliminary investment transaction volume, which includes office, industrial, retail and multifamily transactions, is pegged at 44% to USD 160 billion in 2011....

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The festive season and Chinese New Year are now behind us; and activity in the region over the past few weeks has started to increase. It does however feel somewhat quieter than 12 months ago, as the uncertainty from the Eurozone (and the tightening measures in China) continue to prevail....

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Miyo Yasuda enjoys talking about her work at Jones Lang LaSalle. The up-and-coming manager, capital markets, moves from describing her intense investment role with great enthusiasm, to discussing the challenges of working in a dynamic...

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Recently, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) held a two-day seminar in Adelaide, Australia on the subject of real property...

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On 22 February 2011, Christchurch, the second-largest city in New Zealand, was hit by a 6.3-magnitude earthquake, just six months after a 7.1 magnitude earthquake was...

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Hong Kong's luxury retail sector has seen a strong rebound since the global financial crisis in 2008 with almost all luxury sectors experiencing double- digit growth...

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Despite continued volatility in the currency and equities markets, general sentiment in the Asian real estate markets remains strong with IPO activity slowly recovering. We have seen robust transaction volumes over recent months and our investment teams remain active in all of the Asian markets, having completed some landmark...

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The markets continue to rally across Asia Pacific as rents and values continue to rise. At USD 84 billion 2010 direct transaction volumes finished up circa 25% on 2009 and were at a similar level to that of 2008. Australia, HK, Singapore and China were all popular destinations for cross border investment in 2010 and we see more of the same continuing in the early parts of 2011....

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