Michael Bleby
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RBA faces rate squeeze as 60-year building surge fires up inflation (opens the original)
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Construction is growing at its fastest pace in more than six decades as data centre and housing building surges, with labour shortages and soaring material costs creating a challenge for the Reserve Bank of Australia ahead of a widely expected move to raise interest rates to a 15-year-high this week. The value of residential and non-residential building approvals is expected to reach as high as 11 per cent of GDP, having already hit levels not seen since 1973, according to research by Macquarie,
Home building about ‘to fall off a cliff’, Mirvac warns (opens the original)
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One of the country’s biggest housing providers, ASX-listed Mirvac, has warned that Australia faces a crunch in new home supply within six months as higher costs make projects less feasible and buyer demand fades rapidly amid rising interest rates and changes to investor tax breaks. Stuart Penklis, the head of development for Mirvac – which in August said sales and customer inquiries fell in the three months to June – said smaller apartment developers, particularly those dependent on private cred
Bathla collapse triggers huge surge in building failures (opens the original)
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Construction industry insolvencies last month were more than double the previous monthly high, hitting a record 941 in August as fallout from the collapse of Sydney residential developer Bathla swamped companies across the sector. While the high-profile failure of Bathla – a company with 2500 houses under construction – accounted for 542 of the insolvency appointments to related corporate entities recorded by the corporate regulator last month, economists said rising costs and interest rates ris
Ingenia boss faces hostile bid and unhappy shareholders (opens the original)
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Shareholders in housing provider Ingenia must choose between a growth plan hinging on its proposed takeover of another ASX-listed developer or handing that future value to Warburg Pincus, which has lobbed a hostile $2.9 billion buyout bid for the leading property group, its chief executive John Carfi says. Carfi said Ingenia had no discussions with the private equity firm before it lobbed its $4.75-a-share offer which Ingenia’s board last week dismissed as “substantially” undervaluing the $1.62
AI workflows might make the office the place to be again (opens the original)
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Artificial intelligence is shaking up offices all over again as AI use on handheld devices – which lets people work at home, while commuting, in bed and even in the bathroom – has workers in a back-to-the-future moment asking for the office to be a place they can focus on individual work. James Harvey is one of 40 software engineers at Equiem, which produces software for office building owners. The release of Anthropic’s Claude Opus 4.6 earlier this year changed his job when the large language m
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