Recently NSW Premier Chris Minns issued the C2024-03 NSW Government Sector workplace presence, stating among other things, “Government sector agencies are expected to have flexible work policies that meet reasonable requests of employees, but the default arrangement is to work principally in an approved workplace, office...
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Monday morning and Sydney airport is its usual busy self. I arrive in Melbourne on time and the traffic jam at the airport is unusual but understandable with the works programme underway. As we drive through the CBD, the driver and I both notice how quiet...
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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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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. Dror via Linkedin "..In gray: Prediction of office demand based on the tried and true model that looks at GDP growth and employment data. In green: Actual...
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