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Michael Bleby

Melbourne

Deputy Property Editor at Australian Financial Review

Deputy property editor @financialreview. [email protected]. Property; housing & finance, #construction, #architecture. Dad. Some business of sport

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  • 1 week ago | afr.com | Michael Bleby

    Hotels operator IHG is kicking off super fund-backed developer ISPT’s new commercial and retail precinct in inner-city Brisbane with a rebranding and renovation of the building that has for 39 years been known as Hilton Brisbane, but which from the end of June will trade as Intercontinental Brisbane.

  • 1 week ago | afr.com | Michael Bleby

    The pace of Australian home building slowed in the final three months of 2024, with commencements of new houses and attached homes both falling at their fastest rate in more than a year. Standalone house starts dropped 6 per cent to a seasonally adjusted 26,549 in the December quarter, while commencements of apartments, townhouses and semidetached homes fell 1.5 per cent to 15,217, new Australian Bureau of Statistics figures on Wednesday showed. Loading...

  • 1 week ago | afr.com | Michael Bleby

    Apr 16, 2025 – 5.00am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Retailer Zac Fried will kick off construction on Wednesday of a 6000-square-metre Anaconda outdoor goods store that will teach Moreton Bay locals and visitors to fish from a 12-metre casting tank and let them choose a seven-metre tinnie from a life-sized pier sitting above a fake lake.

  • 1 week ago | afr.com | Michael Bleby

    Apr 14, 2025 – 6.44pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Follow our live coverage of the 2025 federal election. One of Australia’s leading housing analysts has forecast prices will rise as much as 15 per cent under the home ownership policies of both Labor and the Coalition. Loading...

  • 1 week ago | afr.com | Michael Bleby

    Apr 14, 2025 – 12.56pm or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? A lack of builders with the capacity to take on big jobs on Queensland’s Gold Coast is forcing developers to prioritise smaller projects, steering clear of major construction work that can turn into a long drain on profits.

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