A builder can be fully booked, reporting profit, and insolvent at the same time. The fixed-price contract mechanism behind 2,800 Australian construction failures, and the warning signs that precede them.
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Australian REITs Explained: Why Cap Rates Matter More Than Buildings
A building with unchanged rent can lose a fifth of its value because bond yields moved. How cap rates and gearing drive Australian listed property, and why office and industrial diverged so sharply.
Lendlease: When Great Projects Do Not Make a Good Business
Lendlease delivered landmark urban regeneration in London, New York and Milan. The projects were good; the returns were not. Why integrated development, construction and investment failed.
Australia’s Housing Target Is Failing, and Approvals Are Not the Reason
A record 243,864 dwellings under construction and only 43,816 completed in a quarter. Australia is 112,365 homes behind its target, and the bottleneck is capacity to build, not permission to.
Goodman Group: How a Warehouse Developer Became a Data Centre Company
Goodman bought industrial land near cities for warehouses. With AI driving demand and grid capacity the constraint, those same sites became the scarcest input in the data centre build-out.
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