Australia’s commercial property market continues to attract significant attention from offshore investors seeking stability, transparency, and long-term growth opportunities. As global capital reallocates amid economic uncertainty, shifting interest rate cycles, and geopolitical complexity, Australia is increasingly being viewed as a safe and attractive destination for institutional and private investment capital. For commercial property investors, understanding […]

Developers are increasingly accessing senior construction finance without pre-sales mandates. We examine the structuring techniques making this possible.

As traditional lenders retreat from complexity, mezzanine and preferred equity structures are playing a critical role in enabling development certainty.

The first thing we have to understand about capital markets is that they like ‘stability.’ Countries that offer capital stability, obtain it. Countries that don’t, invariably, lose it. What Britain’s decision to leave the EU may have done to its commercial capital markets is destabilise them. The Referendum Will Have Raised 4 Key Questions in […]

Debt analysis agency Standard & Poor’s (S&P) has officially placed Australia on “downgrade watch,” meaning the country’s stellar AAA credit rating could soon be cut. The agency recently changed Australia’s credit outlook from “stable” to “negative” following the election, raising concerns about the nation’s ability to manage its budget. The likelihood of Standard & Poor’s […]

From July 2019, the government will ban all cash payments of $10,000 or more in an effort to stop illicit or illegal transactions from taking place. The measure, which was first announced in May, is the Turnbull administration’s innovative financial solution for cutting down on the Australian black market, which is thought to be worth […]

The real estate market in China and south-east Asia in the last decade has been risky and speculative because there has been a lack of availability of stock, but this is no longer the case. In the past, investors from abroad have flocked to China with the promise of optimistic returns, but delays, cost escalation […]

In the USA recently, fundraising on private equity funds focusing on property has experienced a downturn. Based on current trends, it seems unlikely that this will pick up this year, but what exactly does this mean for those wanting to make money from their private equity funds? Well, firstly it’s important to note that this […]

Coming close on the heels of Greece’s macro-economic woes are China’s worsening economic indicators and market sentiment. Just when the world markets were heaving a temporary sigh of relief from a possible Grexit and an economic shock-wave, the Dragon seems to not only be losing its fire power but also ailing from the flipsides of […]