The Corenet Government Forum took place in Canberra the other week with a great set of speakers; Sam Engele (ACT Government), Joydeep Hor (People + Culture Strategies), Tom Payne (Hoyne) and Domino Risch (Placeology). Before heading back to Sydney, we drove around Canberra to take a quick look...
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Carbon emissions are the focus of most sustainability strategies and as we dive deeper into our ESG initiative, CREcycle, we have come across innovative projects to achieve net-zero. Long Beach Container Terminal (LBCT), at the Port of Long Beach in Los Angeles, is targeting net-zero...
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Last week, the Property Council of Australia (PCA) released its Office Market Report figures for the first half of 2024. The PCA has been doing so since the 1990’s so it is a great indicator for trends in the office market. 2024 started with a flurry...
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For years, NABERS has been the guiding light for improving sustainability and efficiency of office buildings with its ratings system for Energy, Water, Waste, and Indoor Environment Quality. It works really well, is now being adopted in other countries, and gives CRE tenants another way...
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We are not technology experts by any stretch of the imagination and do not purport to be. However, since subscribing to one of the original “CREtech” newsletters (PikeNet) in the 90’s we have been fascinated by how technology will impact CRE, and more importantly, the impact...
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There is a common global theme that the CRE industry is slow to adopt new technologies. We have even said it ourselves based on what others keep saying. But is it really the case in Australia? The landlord sector (supply) is huge and focused on CRE 100%...
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Our passion and focus is CRE tenant representation and the markets in which they are housed, but today we digress for a moment. In May we introduced CREcycle as our initiative to reduce CRE landfill from the office sector one tonne at a time. Progress has...
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Apropos that the start of the new financial year is in the middle of the footy season. The ref blows the whistle and the game begins. The training, the preparation and the analysis that occurs before each game is imperative. The best teams keep improving,...
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In a recent Linkedin post, Dror Poleg commented on the most recent NAIOP Office Space Demand Report for Q2, 2024. These figures are for the US markets and all markets are different. But this is a global trend. Earlier this year we presented the following statistics for office...
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Last week we attended Spaceful’s event at the Museum of Contemporary Art; Unlimited: an Exploration of Future Workplace Innovation. It was a great event from every perspective, the venue, the vibe of the space, the hosts, the Exhibition Centre for exhibitors, the guest speaker, the...
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