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There’s a direct correlation between hotel rooftop pools and the activation of holiday-mode.

Target price revealed as hotel under Story Bridge listed for sale

The hotel was sold in 2021 for about $70 million. Amid a shortage of hotels in Brisbane, its owners are now seeking a lot more.

  • William Davis

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Tune Hotels has sold 540 Flinders Street to Hotel101 for more than $25 million.

Filipinos’ Flinders Street plan: Melbourne’s largest hotel with 766 rooms

A Philippines-based hotel developer has quietly snapped up a Flinders Street development site for more than $25 million and is planning to build a 766-room hotel.

  • Nicole Lindsay
402-416 Chapel Street, South Yarra

Spotlight and Anaconda’s billionaires just sold this patch of dirt in Chapel Street for $65m

And in an interesting quid pro quo, the buyer is understood to be none other than prolific property developer Bill McNee.

  • Nicole Lindsay
The company says the new Trump Tower will include a “private Beach Club”. It’s unclear exactly what this will entail, but beaches in Australia are generally considered public amenities.

New Trump tower to be Australia’s tallest building, ‘private’ beach club promised

“It’s not every day that a building comes along that changes a landscape, an economy and a culture,” the developer said.

  • William Davis and Dominique Tassell
Getting a revamp. The Prince of Wales Hotel in St Kilda.

Popular Prince gets a multimillion-dollar makeover after $28m sale to Godfreys’ vacuum heir

St Kilda’s Prince of Wales Hotel is getting a major revamp – new rooftop bar and updated bandroom – from its leaseholder Australian Venue Co.

  • Nicole Lindsay
Jon Wyeth has been posting on social media since 2021.

Most would avoid Brisbane’s lowest-rated hotels and eateries. Not Jon

The content creator behind Steven Miles’ viral bench press video swims against the tide of spruiking the best of the best.

  • Neesha Sinnya
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The Regatta Hotel in Brisbane.

Council pushes for ‘old school’ pub stays to boost Olympic accommodation

Changes to Brisbane’s planning rules will make it easier for pubs to build new hotel rooms to boost the city’s short-stay accommodation.

  • William Davis
Media House, 655 Collins Street.

Fashion maven fills The Age’s former Collins St home with tenants

The Age’s former headquarters on the corner of Collins and Spencer streets is finally fully sub-let after years languishing half-empty.

  • Nicole Lindsay
Render of the NPACT and Chapter Group’s apartment project at 1260-1272 Malvern Road.

Packer is filthy on Dan but still fancies Melbourne’s property sector

The billionaire isn’t taking out his grudge against former premier Dan Andrews on Victoria. Quite the opposite.

  • Nicole Lindsay
The foyer from the Park Avenue entrance of the revamped Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York.

Legendary New York hotel reopens after whopping $3 billion revamp

The Waldorf Astoria was the first hotel in the world to introduce room service, in-room telephones and electricity – and the first to permit unaccompanied female guests.

  • Kristie Kellahan