In NSW particularly, government housing affordability policy is focused on promoting apartment living. However, the breadth and depth of problems within this sector are insufficiently recognised, let alone adequately addressed, to an extent that threatens the long-term success of this policy push. Buyers beware!
Loathsome bellicose fantasists are ...
When a shopping centre in Sydney’s inner west was repeatedly outed for poor fire and safety standards, the story eventually hit the headlines in The Sydney Morning Herald, one of Australia’s most high-profile metropolitan newspapers.
It’s not the kind of thing property owners or managers can easily live down.
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Brookfield has finalised the long running sale of its Aveo retirement living asset to Scape’s rebranded parent business The Living Company.
The $3.85 billion sale marks a departure from the pure student accommodation play of the Scape business, perhaps in response to the falling numbers of foreign students in recent times and uncertainty about the ...
More EV chargers in Sydney and not before time
EVX was thrilled this week to win funding to roll out around half of the New South Wales governments planned $2.8 million EV charging infrastructure program for 436 kerb side charging spaces.
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Just in time, perhaps. The state government might have ...
Driving our energy future: Solar Citizens’ clean energy campaigner Philippa England explains how to set up a home battery to help withstand power outage from her own experience.
Earlier this year Southeast Queensland received another wake up call to climate change, when ex-tropical Cyclone Alfred made landfall on the Moreton Bay Islands, directly off ...
This week the topic of housing slammed back to centre stage from three different frames.
First was a view from the broad market at the top end of town. It was via a so-called SyLon event, held simultaneously at Lendlease headquarters in Sydney’s Barangaroo and the London Centre in the UK on Tuesday night. As with most in-person events, the gems ...
With the Queensland government axing the $1 billion Moonlight Range Wind Farm near Rockhampton despite already receiving planning approval – Rok Solid, a renewable land brokerage firm, says that “progressed projects” are now in higher demand than ever before.
The company’s chief executive Daniel Moroko said that smaller renewable energy developers ...
After a chance encounter with a run-down farmhouse and cottage in Balgowlah in Sydney’s Northern Beaches, Felicity Stevens now runs the Airbnb Rangers Cottage from the property her family ended up buying – an environmentally conscious stay that has some guests coming back again and again with praise for its sustainability offerings.
Sign ...
I have lived in Sydney’s inner west for decades. I have seen substantial demographic and economic change, including the steep rise in the cost of housing, and I know how this stunts peoples’ lives. Like PM Anthony Albanese, my local member of parliament, I too, grew up in public housing. You might think I would approve of “Our Fairer Future” – Inner ...
Nathan Hage is neither a developer nor an energy expert, nor anything else you might think would be crucial to retrofitting a group of 45 flats in Sydney’s inner south with solar and EV charging. He works in logistics, but the one qualifier that he firmly holds is that he’s a resident of the Zinc Apartments, and perhaps through his enthusiasm, the job ...
Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact us to ask for a detailed brief.
Imagine walking through Sydney’s CBD and looking up, not at another glass tower emerging from a demolition site, but at new, lightweight apartments quietly perched on the sturdy rooftops of buildings that have been standing for decades. No extra ...
Step into the future of the built environment with CIBSE ANZ’s biggest technical event of the year.
The 2025 Seminar Series: Building Performance – Imagination to Reality brings together the brightest minds and boldest ideas across five powerful sessions. From graduates to senior leaders, this is a must-attend for anyone shaping the future of ...
In NSW particularly, government housing affordability policy is focused on promoting apartment living. However, the breadth and depth of problems within this sector are insufficiently recognised, let alone adequately addressed, to an extent that threatens the long-term success of this policy push. Buyers beware!
Loathsome bellicose fantasists are ...
When a shopping centre in Sydney’s inner west was repeatedly outed for poor fire and safety standards, the story eventually hit the headlines in The Sydney Morning Herald, one of Australia’s most high-profile metropolitan newspapers.
It’s not the kind of thing property owners or managers can easily live down.
Sign up for our free ...
Brookfield has finalised the long running sale of its Aveo retirement living asset to Scape’s rebranded parent business The Living Company.
The $3.85 billion sale marks a departure from the pure student accommodation play of the Scape business, perhaps in response to the falling numbers of foreign students in recent times and uncertainty about the ...
More EV chargers in Sydney and not before time
EVX was thrilled this week to win funding to roll out around half of the New South Wales governments planned $2.8 million EV charging infrastructure program for 436 kerb side charging spaces.
Sign up for our free newsletter.
Just in time, perhaps. The state government might have ...
Driving our energy future: Solar Citizens’ clean energy campaigner Philippa England explains how to set up a home battery to help withstand power outage from her own experience.
Earlier this year Southeast Queensland received another wake up call to climate change, when ex-tropical Cyclone Alfred made landfall on the Moreton Bay Islands, directly off ...
This week the topic of housing slammed back to centre stage from three different frames.
First was a view from the broad market at the top end of town. It was via a so-called SyLon event, held simultaneously at Lendlease headquarters in Sydney’s Barangaroo and the London Centre in the UK on Tuesday night. As with most in-person events, the gems ...
With the Queensland government axing the $1 billion Moonlight Range Wind Farm near Rockhampton despite already receiving planning approval – Rok Solid, a renewable land brokerage firm, says that “progressed projects” are now in higher demand than ever before.
The company’s chief executive Daniel Moroko said that smaller renewable energy developers ...
After a chance encounter with a run-down farmhouse and cottage in Balgowlah in Sydney’s Northern Beaches, Felicity Stevens now runs the Airbnb Rangers Cottage from the property her family ended up buying – an environmentally conscious stay that has some guests coming back again and again with praise for its sustainability offerings.
Sign ...
I have lived in Sydney’s inner west for decades. I have seen substantial demographic and economic change, including the steep rise in the cost of housing, and I know how this stunts peoples’ lives. Like PM Anthony Albanese, my local member of parliament, I too, grew up in public housing. You might think I would approve of “Our Fairer Future” – Inner ...
Nathan Hage is neither a developer nor an energy expert, nor anything else you might think would be crucial to retrofitting a group of 45 flats in Sydney’s inner south with solar and EV charging. He works in logistics, but the one qualifier that he firmly holds is that he’s a resident of the Zinc Apartments, and perhaps through his enthusiasm, the job ...
Spinifex is an opinion column. If you would like to contribute, contact us to ask for a detailed brief.
Imagine walking through Sydney’s CBD and looking up, not at another glass tower emerging from a demolition site, but at new, lightweight apartments quietly perched on the sturdy rooftops of buildings that have been standing for decades. No extra ...
Step into the future of the built environment with CIBSE ANZ’s biggest technical event of the year.
The 2025 Seminar Series: Building Performance – Imagination to Reality brings together the brightest minds and boldest ideas across five powerful sessions. From graduates to senior leaders, this is a must-attend for anyone shaping the future of ...
