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The biggest real estate news – the week ending 5 May 2024

By Staff Reporter
03 May 2024 | 9 minute read
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A major Tasmanian acquisition, a record-breaking home sale, and the value of mentoring.

Welcome to REB’s weekly round-up of headline stories that are important to both the real estate sector and the state of the Australian property market.

To compile this list, we consider the week’s most-read stories and the news that matters to you, collating your need-to-know property report from across our site and sister brands. Here are the biggest stories of the week:

  1. Knight Frank Tasmania acquired by national brand

The business, which comprises over 115 staff across five offices in Australia’s southernmost state, will now operate under a different brand banner.

  1. ‘One day it’ll be her name on the door’: How mentorship made a principal

Starting in the business as a property manager, new principal Jodi Alexander explains how belief from an agency owner convinced her she could run things.

  1. NSW rezoning rules for transit hub suburbs revealed

The first stage of the state’s plan to update the planning rules around key transport hubs has been implemented.

  1. Shadow treasurer slams Help to Buy, pushes super for housing

Enabling Australians to access super for housing and “getting government out of the way” would help alleviate housing issues, according to shadow treasurer Angus Taylor.

  1. BlackSuit ransomware claims attack on Australian property firm Herron Todd White

Another Australian firm has fallen foul of a ransomware gang, this time property valuers Herron Todd White.

  1. The builder stepping in to save Aussies’ new home dreams

Lucas Patterson started his building company intending to create bespoke homes, but his plans changed when he realised how many hopeful new home owners were in need of help.

  1. Dangerously low vacancy rates persist in Qld

A new report has detailed the perilously low rental supply available across Queensland and the government intervention necessary for the rental market to recover.

  1. Aussie founder looking to fetch $200m on home sale

The Point Piper mansion has been listed for sale and is expected to break the national home price record.

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