Multiplex is back on site at Melbourne Square for the fourth time. The way AURA got to a groundbreaking says as much about apartment construction right now as the tower does. Multiplex has started work on AURA, an $800 million, 67 storey residential tower at the...
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The Brisbane builder developer will deliver around 435 homes, a 50 bed hotel and retail space on the river. The way the deal is structured is as informative as the site itself. Economic Development Queensland has selected GRAYA to develop an 11,000 square metre...
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A developer walking away from signed contracts is bad enough. What should worry builders more is how little stands in the way of it happening again. Last week, national developer Wel.Co cancelled 101 signed contracts at its Springwood estate at Gawler East, north of...
Stockland bought the land in 2004 and markets it as Aura South. It has been on the growth map since 2009. Council argued the federal referral had no lawful basis, then conceded it may need the site to hit its dwelling targets. Next door, Caloundra South is sixteen...
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McNab has moved The Tannery from a funding announcement to an active build in West End. Beneath the price tag sits the detail that matters to builders: a 156-year-old industrial building being kept and worked into a new residential project. McNab has broken ground on...
A Chatswood project that started life as a 251-apartment scheme is now before the state as 552 apartments across two towers of 58 and 60 storeys. The size of the jump tells builders something useful about the planning system they are working in. Billbergia and Metrics...
A Sunshine Coast industrial fund has been fully subscribed before its development application has even been lodged, a result that says as much about the state of the regional market as it does about investor appetite. Sunshine Coast-based RM Capital, the investment...
A penthouse at Burleigh Heads has just reset the state's apartment record. The headline number is the easy part. The harder, more useful question for builders is what it takes to deliver a residence at this level, and what the demand behind it says about high-end work...
One of the biggest names in Australian construction has a new owner, and the reasons behind the sale are the same forces squeezing builders of every size right now. Last updated: June 2026 One of the biggest names in Australian construction has a new owner. After...
A $12 million adjoining purchase has grown one of the Gold Coast’s most constrained beachfront sites by half. The interesting part is what GRAYA chose to do with the extra land. Most developers expand a site to fit in more homes. GRAYA has done the opposite. The...
Ten new residential lots and seven social housing allotments have been released in Karratha's Madigan Estate, the latest step in a broader push to grow permanent housing supply in one of Australia's tightest regional rental markets. The Western Australian Government...
The Sunshine Coast developer moved from settlement to construction in a single day, after completing civil tenders, permits and an off-market builder sales campaign before taking ownership. A Gympie residential development backed by Sunshine Coast investment firm RM...
A 1.1 hectare site at Varsity Lakes on the Gold Coast sat fenced off and unused for the better part of a decade. Now it is being unlocked for up to 250 new homes, and the Queensland Government wants builders to know about it. The site on Station Parade, directly...
Stockland launches Bay Hill, its first bayside precinct at the masterplanned Shoreline community, with 294 lots and views across Moreton Bay to North Stradbroke Island. Redland Bay does not offer up land like this very often. Positioned along the eastern ridgeline of...
Fifteen residential lots have been released for sale at Station Square, Batavia Coast Marina, marking the first land available to buyers under the Stage 2 development in Geraldton's inner city. The release forms part of a broader project that, once complete, will...
Western Australia moves to expand housing supply alongside major industrial investment A new land release in the Pilbara is set to expand housing availability in one of Australia’s most economically important resource regions, as the Western Australian Government...
Recent updates to Australia’s national land clearing framework are set to have flow-on effects well beyond agriculture, with implications emerging for residential developers, civil contractors and infrastructure projects across Queensland. While the reforms are...
Four former defence sites across metropolitan Adelaide could soon play a role in easing housing pressure and reshaping established suburbs, as the South Australian Government begins investigations into their possible acquisition and redevelopment. The move follows a...
The Crisafulli Government has launched a new Land Activation Program aimed at accelerating housing delivery by unlocking underutilised, government-owned land across Queensland and partnering with the private sector to bring sites to market. The program, to be led by...
The Queensland Government has moved to accelerate housing supply in the Somerset region, announcing major enabling infrastructure works designed to unlock new residential development in Fernvale South. Backed by the State’s Residential Activation Fund, the Fernvale...
Foreign investment in Australian land continues to gather momentum, with recent acquisitions highlighting the growing scale and diversity of international capital flowing into both agricultural and residential development assets. One recent transaction is the...
Singapore-based developer Ho Bee Land has significantly expanded its Australian footprint, acquiring a 181-hectare master-planned development site in Elimbah, within the Moreton Bay region, for A$318.5 million. The purchase marks the group’s largest single land...
Australia’s residential construction pipeline showed a strong late year resurgence in November 2025, with new data revealing a sharp lift in dwelling approvals driven almost entirely by apartments, townhouses and higher density housing. According to the latest release...
After a record-breaking year of land sales in 2025, South Australia’s largest urban renewal project is preparing to release a further 200 residential allotments over the summer period, adding new supply to one of Adelaide’s fastest-growing growth corridors. The...
Western Australia has taken another step toward easing regional housing pressure, announcing the release of underutilised Government-owned land in Exmouth for a mixed-use development that will introduce new homes, retail space and a much-needed supermarket to the town...
Queensland has entered a defining period of city-shaping investment, and this week’s release of two major sites on Brisbane’s northern CBD edge marks one of the clearest signals yet. The Crisafulli Government has brought a dormant 8,900-square-metre precinct to...
The Queensland Government has moved to accelerate housing supply and secure a major Olympic legacy, unlocking more than three hectares of land at Yeerongpilly for new homes and a significant expansion of the Queensland Tennis Centre. The announcement marks one of the...
Land registration times have quietly become one of the biggest forces shaping Australia’s home-building pipeline. With construction costs finally stabilising and parts of the market showing renewed demand, the journey from raw land to titled lots is now influencing...
Sydney’s inner west is set for another major transformation, with developer Billbergia revealing the final stage of its $3 billion Rhodes Central masterplan, a precinct almost 20 years in the making. The third and last stage, lodged as a State Significant Development...
One of Australia’s largest residential developers, AVID Property Group, has officially broken ground on two new land lease communities in South East Queensland, marking another major expansion of the company’s fast-growing over-50s portfolio. Ceremonial sod-turning...
Design-led developer activates more than $75 million in premium Melbourne projects Luxury Melbourne developer Coff Property has secured its second fast-tracked planning approval in less than a year, unlocking another major tranche of high-end townhouse construction...
Western Australia’s digital infrastructure has just taken another major step forward, with global contractor Multiplex topping out Stage Two of NEXTDC’s P1 Perth data centre, a key milestone in the tech giant’s $110 million expansion in Malaga. The project is one of...
Master-planned communities in Queensland and Victoria mark broader strategy shift Ho Bee Land, a Singapore-listed property developer, has acquired five development-ready sites in Australia for approximately A$96.6 million, signalling a deliberate push into the...
When “Passivhaus” Is Just a Marketing Word A growing number of Australian developers are coming under fire for advertising buildings as “Passivhaus” or “Passivhaus-aligned” despite lacking the documentation, design modelling, or certification to back it up. The term,...
Japanese trading giant Marubeni Corporation has made its first move into Australia’s growing build-to-rent (BTR) sector, joining a $600 million Docklands development led by AsheMorgan, a signal of intensifying international interest in the nation’s evolving rental...
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Avid’s Vantage Hervey Bay marks a milestone year as resort-style amenities and social connection take shape. On Queensland’s Fraser Coast, a new kind of neighbourhood is taking form, one built not only from brick and timber, but from connection. In less than twelve...
Forty bricklayers, 250,000 hand-laid bricks, and a façade that revives a lost landmark, Multiplex’s Market Square project is proof that traditional skill and modern innovation can build something truly timeless. The Craft at the Core In a city skyline filled with...
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Queensland’s housing delivery model shows the power of collaboration done right In just 12 months, EveryOne Homes, the affordable housing division of Metricon has completed 100 new homes across South East Queensland, marking a major milestone under the Queensland...
When most people think about a hospital redevelopment, they picture cranes, scaffolding, and a future full of improved healthcare services. But in Newcastle, the $835 million John Hunter Health and Innovation Precinct (JHHIP) is shaping more than just clinical...
Coral Cove Ocean Estate developer DevCore this week officially launched its sales office and the commencement of construction on the first 300-lot village precinct. Nestled on Coral Cove Drive, just 20 minutes east of Bundaberg and a short drive from Bargara, this...
From booming greenfield estates to inner-city infill, the Crisafulli Government pushes ahead with major housing approvals, unlocking new Brisbane land and reshaping the future of Flagstone. More than 2,400 new homes have been approved across South East Queensland in a...
In a significant move for regional development, Maas Group Developments Pty Ltd has secured approval from the Dubbo Regional Council to convert a historic vineyard along Bunglegumbie Road into a 105-lot residential estate. A Legacy Reimagined The site, part of the...
A few years back, during the COVID chaos, you could pick up a house and land package in new Sunshine Coast communities like Aura or Harmony for around $550,000. Fast forward to now, and some of those same homes are topping $1 million. Yep, you read that right. It’s...
Over 300 builders, suppliers and other professionals jostled into the Brisbane Convention Centre for HIA’s annual State of the Nation breakfast in Brisbane on Tuesday morning. With the TGB team on site, Peter Loves gives the official Good Builder event recap. Senator...
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Queensland has a new State Planner with Peta Harwood starting the role this week. Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie appointed Ms Harwood, who has been directed to unlock more housing approvals. Ms Harwood will lead the important Planning Group within the Department of...
Securing land in Queensland’s highly sought after South East corner seems to be akin to finding a park at Suncorp Stadium on Game Day. Queensland and New South Wales State Manager of OpenLot.com.au Con Sgouros, an online land marketplace said Queensland is one...
One of Queensland’s most successful mortgage brokers has called for the Federal Government to increase the cap for its new Help to Buy scheme as the current $700,000 limit will make it nearly impossible to find a property in South East Queensland.
The proposed “Park Lakes 3” development in Bli Bli on the Sunshine Coast has had it’s Development Application denied 10 to 1 by the Sunshine Coast Council. The Application sought a preliminary approval for a Master Planned Development including low density and...
Editor's note: This article was originally published in January 2024. Since publication, Rivermont's first land release proceeded in early 2025 and civil works have continued to progress. The Waraba Priority Development Area was formally declared in August 2024. For...
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