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The world premiere of ‘The Sign’, the hotly anticipated 28-minute special Bluey episode, aired on Sunday. Picture: Supplied The Heelers are staying put! The biggest Bluey episode ever aired on Sunday morning centred on the Heelers home selling right in the thick of a family wedding. Throughout the 28 minute episode, titled ‘The Sign’, the […]

2024 is already shaping up to be the year of the unit, with unaffordable house prices, high interest rates and population growth driving buyers towards cheaper properties in convenient locations. Unit prices have already grown faster than house prices so far this year, according to the latest PropTrack Home Price Index, rising 2% at the national […]

The suburb that never sleeps: What it’s like to live and work in Brisbane’s coolest neighbourhood HENRY JOHNSTONE First published 11 April 2024, 3:45pm Every city has a Fortitude Valley – an edgy hub of music and nightlife where a heady mix of locals and tourists flock to let their hair down. Yet Brisbane’s ‘coolest’ suburb […]

BLUEY’S HOME UP FOR GRABS TO TOON OF $6M by SOPHIE FOSTER The Heeler family in hit series Bluey are set to be millionaires six times over after a shock decision to list their  popular Brisbane home for sale –with prices up 70 per cent since the show began. Bandit and Chilli Heeler broke the […]

A big slice of Brisbane’s inner-city Newstead is planned for redevelopment as a $1.5-billion triple tower mixed-use development topped with 1001 build-to-rent apartments. The ambitious proposal to be known as the Newstead Collective has been filed by Brisbane-based Panettiere Developments. It is earmarked for an amalgamated 7440sq m holding fronting Longland, Stratton and Kyabra streets, […]

Just do it. That is one of the world’s most recognisable sporting slogans but with the stopwatch ticking it also has become a fitting catch cry for Brisbane’s preparations for the 2032 Olympics. Or translated into more colloquial parlance: Just bloody get on with it. Two years and eight months since Brisbane officially won its […]

No pressure, Graham Quirk. That’s a sizeable understatement, of course. The well-respected former Brisbane lord mayor has just spent 60 days leading a review of the controversial venue masterplan for the city’s 2032 Olympics. On March 18, he will release his eagerly awaited report and the pressure is on big time to get it right. […]

Crown land on one of inner-city Brisbane’s most historic streets is being eyed for large-scale development to combat Queensland’s housing crisis. A detailed evaluation is being undertaken to determine the potential of the government-owned land at Ivory Street, Fortitude Valley. The site—bounded by McLachlan Lane, Ivory and Brunswick streets—spans 1518sq m and is partially occupied […]

It’s the design paradigm shift Brisbane’s West End—one of the city’s toughest development playing fields—had to have. Or, at least, a 10,628sq m pocket of the inner-city suburb. Two residential towers—each with three concave facades wrapped in ‘green’ exoskeletons— have been given the go-ahead for a site adjoining Davies Park at 281-297 Montague Road. The […]

The average Australian now spends over $30,000 per year on rent, the highest number ever seen in the country. Last month, the median Australian rent surpassed $600 per week for the first time ever, setting a new record high. The median rent has skyrocketed since August 2020, when median rent values were at just $437 […]

Property prices will soften this year after bounce back of 2023 as the factors that supported price growth evaporate. Property industry analyst and economic forecaster Oxford Economics Australia said that the market had last year recouped the losses of 2022, with Australia’s median home price hitting an estimated new record of $939,000 in December, 2023. […]

  It isn’t just the the climate that’s hot in Brisbane as new projects got underway at pace in 2023. Even the well-reported challenges for construction in the state did little to dim the sparkle and shine of projects. More home loans were taken out in the Sunshine State than any other last year, and […]

Eleanor Campbell The equivalent of more than two capacity crowds at Suncorp Stadium has migrated into Queensland in the past year, population data reveals. Queensland has the third-fastest growing population in the country, Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show, with more than 138,000 additions to the Sunshine State. Almost 5.5 million people now call Queensland […]

After more than two decades, the ripple effect of the James Street gentrification in and around Brisbane’s Fortitide Valley is by no means losing momentum. Instead, it is reaching new heights. A block away from the trendy strip’s restaurants, boutique shops, bars and landmark Calile Hotel, plans have been filed for a 33-storey twin tower […]

The Queensland Investment Corporation has been given the go-ahead for its landmark $750-million, 40-storey office tower in the Albert Street Cross River Rail precinct. Economic Development Queensland has approved the over-station development above the Cross River Rail project in the priority development area within the Brisbane CBD. The decision paves the way for construction of […]

During the intervening years, the meandering muddy banks of the Brisbane River have been transformed into Australia’s fastest-growing capital city. Back in 1823, with his colonial clairvoyance, John Oxley envisioned it as much. As fate would have it, in December that year, the then Surveyor-General of NSW sailed into Moreton Bay looking for a place […]

Brisbane-based developer Chapter Two has unveiled plans at Spring Hill for one of the city’s first office-to-residential conversions. Chapter Two Group bought the 1970s-era Wickham Terrace office block from a long-term owner and will put forward plans to develop five whole-floor apartments, and a two-level penthouse. The building floorplates feature spans of 300sq m of […]

Work has begun on the biggest upgrade in Brisbane Airport’s history this week with the transformation of the domestic terminal. It is part of the $5-billion-plus Future BNE investment program that includes upgrades to the domestic terminal, international terminal and to continue planning a new terminal 3 precinct. Other aviation projects include the expansion of aircraft […]

Brisbane is cutting its infrastructure charges in hopes of boosting development of new homes in existing inner-city, high-density and principal and major centre zones. Speaking at the site of Brisbane Housing Company’s latest Chermside development, which will deliver 92 affordable and social homes, Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner said it was essential to incentivise rather than […]

The murky and meandering backbone of Brisbane affectionately known as “the brown snake” is the focus of a proposed $20-million floating tourism hub at the historic Howard Smith Wharves. Abandoned for decades before being resurrected in 2018 as a dining and entertainment precinct, the heritage Brisbane River site’s original purpose will be restored under the […]