Mat Steinwede has gone from being homeless and on Australia’s Most Wanted List to amassing a multimillion-dollar real estate empire. So how did he do it? It’s a rags to riches story that feels like a plot ripped from the pages of 10’s Underbelly series. Steinwede, 50, landed his first job as a bouncer on Sydney’s Oxford Street in his late teens, where he quickly got caught up in the rampant drug...
by Tony Lawson 
A savvy way to pick a potential property hotspot is to seek out the "ugly duckling” suburbs — according to one of Australia’s leading real estate experts. Terry Ryder, director of Hotspotting, has named five city spots around Australia he considers to be underachievers with a promising future in his latest report, Top 5 Cheapies With Prospects. RELATED: Why your next home buy should be...
by Tony Lawson 
The Adelaide CBD office market remains resilient amongst the higher interest rate environment, with a new report showing that higher rents are helping offset lower prices. Knight Frank’s Adelaide CBD Office Market Report found 10 transactions above $10 million settled for office asset sales over 2022, reflecting a total sales volume of $531.14 million, which was a 95% increase from $271.96 million...
by Tony Lawson 
The AUKUS submarine plan, which may cost Australia upwards of $300 billion over the next 30 years, will have an enormous impact on the property and rental markets of the suburbs that will house the new workforces. When the costliest defence project in Australia’s history is focused on just a few coastal locations, a major impact on those local property and rental markets appears inevitable. Australia...
by Tony Lawson