Ascot Capital is paying $37.9 million for a Port Macquarie office with a long lease to Essential Energy. The asset, 8 Buller Street, was offloaded by Sentinel Property Group which paid $20.6 million in January, 2017. A subsequent renovation improved the building quality to A-grade. Sentinel PG re-offered the office for sale after securing the

A 1.25 hectare development site within Merrylands’ Town Centre has sold between Sydney developers. Family owned Coronation Property is paying ASX-listed giant Stockland $41 million for 52-54 McFarlane Street. The parcel is next door to a Stockland owned shopping centre and a block from Merrylands train station. Stockland had previously won permission to replace the

A family already with Upper Murray interests has paid over $13.2 million for Tooma Valley’s Mount Falcon cattle station. The 2887 hectare Holbrook holding near Kosciusko National Park and Snowy Mountains was offloaded by China’s Union Agriculture which paid about $6 million in late 2011. The vendor during that campaign, OzEmail founder, Sean Howard, acquired

Eastwood’s former Denistone East Uniting Church – which made headlines in 2010 by being one of the first parishes of its type to hold services spoken only in Korean – has sold for $2.7 million. Uniting Church Trust Australia offered the 1434 square metre block at 17 Acacia Street because it couldn’t be expanded to

Hong Kong based Link REIT has made its first property investment outside of Asia, outlaying $683 million for an office at 100 Market Street in the Sydney CBD. The deal with US-based private equity giant Blackstone is being struck on a low 3.9 per cent passing yield. Blackstone picked up the asset last June as

Two Charter Hall funds will co-own a major food production facility and distribution centre in Sydney, leased to Arnott’s. Charter Hall Prime Industrial Fund (CPIF) and Charter Hall Long WALE REIT (CLW) will hold an equal stake in 61 Huntingwood Drive, Huntingwood, after each outlaying $198.9 million. The deal is being struck in an estimated

Marks Henderson is spending $92.75 million on a high-character warehouse-converted-office in Sydney’s inner east Darlinghurst. The deal for 19A Boundary Street with vendor Haben Property Fund is being struck on a 4.7 per cent passing yield. It values every square metre of lettable area at $14,300. A trophy asset The seven-storey complex with ground floor

EXCLUSIVE Centuria Property Funds Limited has sold a Parramatta office at 2-10 Wentworth Street to Singapore’s SC Capital Partners, banking $105.3 million. The property was the sole asset in the unlisted Centuria 2 Wentworth Street Fund, which was closed-end with a five year term. CPFL – a subsidiary of the ASX-listed Centuria Capital Group (CNI)

Sportswear giant ASICS Oceania called in several high-profile sponsors to open its landmark Australian headquarters at Marsden Park, about 50 kilometres north west of the Sydney CBD. Rugby stars Cooper Cronk and Kurtley Beale, with tennis player Stam Stosur, netballer Caitlin Bassett, high-jumper Brandon Starc, and senior ASICS executives, unveiled the 5.7 hectare Richmond Road

Balmain’s Unity Hall Hotel has sold for $20 million – about $5 million less than its price guide upon being listed last month. The 1919 pub at the prominent V-intersection of Beattie and Darling streets is said to be the birthplace of the Australian Labor Party – in so far as it was where the

EXCLUSIVE Charter Hall’s Direct PFA Fund has sold a Parramatta office to a private investor for $64.25 million – or $62.6 million once outstanding lease incentives are deducted. The Sydney-based fund manager and developer, which has embarked on a spending spree which may be the hallmark of the commercial property sector this year – said

EXCLUSIVE Optus has signed a 12 year lease renewal for its landmark campus-style headquarters in Sydney’s north. The landlords, ASX-listed Stockland and joint venture partner, AIMS APAC REIT (AA REIT), which is listed on the Singapore Exchange, will undertake property upgrade works, as part of the deal. The Macquarie Park campus in North Ryde, known