Queensland Breakfast: Planning for Brisbane’s Inner City – A future alive with opportunity

The Property Council welcomed inner city stakeholders to the Planning for Brisbane’s Inner City – A Future alive with opportunity breakfast where Council launched their new Strategy for Brisbane’s inner 5 kilometres.

Melbourne CBD’s $2.5B confidence boost

As developers continue to invest substantially in Melbourne’s expanding property market, the City of Melbourne is on track to record more than $2.5 billion in new development applications in 2022.

What do property leaders think about the future of our cities?

With our CBDs enduring a few years of disruption and change, Urbis has released a new report after quizzing top-level city-shapers across the country about how they think our CBDs will perform over the next two years. Find out what they had to say…

Prosperity engine

The skilled worker. More precious than gold, dear reader. And like an influx of gold, skilled workers and a rich pattern of migration have sustained Australian prosperity since the 1950s more or less. In turn, our stability as a nation and our rich civic life lean heavily on this prosperity.

A decade of opportunity: Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games

With ten years until the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games, the region has a decade to not only get ready for two weeks of incredible sporting performances but also create a lasting infrastructure legacy for South-east Queensland like no other before.

Skilled migration ‘booster shot’ the key to growth

For the first time, more than 50 per cent of Australian residents were either born overseas or have a migrant parent. But behind the positive headlines, the nation is experiencing the second-worst skills crisis among developed nations

City Deals set for a shakeup

City Deals have come a long way since the Property Council first championed them more than a decade ago, and now a new government is set to transform them.

Shared visions needed to create thriving cities

The Creating Thriving Cities: A Shared Vision for Perth report prepared by Urbis for the Property Council, calls for a shared city shaping vision. Kate Meyrick describes what we can learn from cities around the globe in positioning our cities for the future.

CBDs to bounce back despite millennials moving to outer suburbs

Simon Kuestenmacher describes how, when millennials reached the family formation period and left the cities, there hasn’t been the usual replacement owing to border restrictions.

Chief Executive | Cities are central to human connection

What changes and what reverts to norm? That’s the big question as most of the impacts of the pandemic become less acute.