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Red Rooster Bundaberg has sold for $3.28 million, reflecting a market leading 4.63% passing yield and establishing the sharpest yield recorded nationally for a regional Red Rooster investment. The 2,706sqm freestanding drive-thru restaurant at 226 Bourbong Street, Bundaberg West, was sold following a highly competitive Expressions of Interest campaign, attracting 10 formalised offers and more than $30 million of unsatisfied capital.

Brisbane is emerging as one of the strongest-performing office markets in the Asia-Pacific region, with a combination of rapid rental growth, attractive investment yields, population expansion and constrained new supply strengthening the case for capital deployment in Queensland.

Retailers have a sought-after opportunity to secure prime position in Frasers Property Australia’s SkyRidge masterplanned community on the Gold Coast, with an Expressions of Interest campaign launched targeting childcare, medical, food, essential services and recreational uses. The first retail opportunities on offer in the rapidly growing community are three pad sites, including a total land area of circa 24,000m2 subject to final design.

Sub-regional centres carry the lowest capital value per square metre of any shopping centre format in Australia and, almost uniquely in retail, are increasingly difficult to replicate at scale. In FY26 that combination produced an outcome the textbook says shouldn't happen against a rising cash rate: yields sharpened to a decade low.

The GPT Group (GPT) today officially opened 51 Flinders Ln, its $555 million office development in Melbourne's East End, announcing AI infrastructure company Firmus Technologies (Firmus) and global out-of-home media company JCDecaux as the latest businesses to commit to the precinct.

A modern office and warehouse facility in Hobart, fully leased to the Tasmanian State Government, has sold for $28.05 million in one of the largest commercial property transactions in  the local market this year. The property at 89 Cambridge Park Drive in Cambridge, located just 10 minutes east of Hobart’s CBD,  was purchased by interstate investor reflecting an initial yield of 7.15%.

CBRE’s leasing and consulting business took home wins across three categories at the Dexus Excellence in Agency Awards. CBRE was awarded Office Agency of the Year and Industrial Development Transaction of the Year, while Megan Kay, Associate Director in Brisbane’s Office Investor team, was named Rising Star of the Year. The awards ceremony was held in Sydney to celebrate the success of Dexus’ office and industrial partnerships in FY26.

After more than 20 years in commercial real estate, Robbie Doyle is still drawn to the same things that got him started. The people, the variety, and the fact no two days are the same. “Commercial real estate is my passion! I love dealing with industrial/commercial sales and leasing. I also specialise in selling businesses, so I get to meet a lot of really interesting property owners and tenants.

Luxury retail across Australia's CBD prime retail cores continues to diverge sharply by city, with Sydney extending its lead as the nation's undisputed luxury capital while smaller markets show little sign of the category taking hold at all. Sydney's luxury tenancies now account for 32.1 per cent of all CBD shops surveyed, unchanged from 2025 but up substantially from 26.2 per cent in 2024, a level no other Australian capital comes close to matching.

300 acres of highly productive cropping land in South Australia’s tightly held Northern Adelaide Plains region has been brought to market, with Colliers Agribusiness launching the sale of 'Corrells' and the Stevens Road holdings at Pinkerton Plains. Situated approximately 22 kilometres north-west of Roseworthy and within easy reach of Adelaide, the property is being offered for sale either as a whole or as three separate parcels via Expressions of Interest closing on 1 October 2026.