Savills data shows tech sector office demand jumped from 14% to 22% in H1 2026, as prime CBD vacancy stood at around 2% and rents continued to rise.
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Commercial investors in Brisbane continue to reap the benefits of the city’s strong yields, leading the way nationally across retail, office and industrial assets. According to REA’s latest Commercial Yield Report, transaction activity rose over the June quarter, despite interest rate increases weighing on buyer demand. The report found that, broadly, yields declined across industrial…
A former New Hampshire gubernatorial candidate (and state GOP bigwig) has pleaded guilty to his role in a $50 million investment scheme, including charges of securities and investment advisor fraud. According to the Justice Department, Jay Lucas raised money from victims, falsely telling them their funds would go to investments in “early-stage” health and wellness…
Every few months, a new piece appears questioning whether technology will finally make the mortgage adviser obsolete. Most recently, The Financial Times asked whether artificial intelligence (AI) could signal the end of the mortgage broker, reflecting a wider debate about how consumers will access financial products in the future. Or, indeed, how they are…
The independent wealth management landscape has changed dramatically, making the decision between an independent broker dealer (IBD) and an RIA more nuanced than ever before. Louis Diamond welcomes Diamond Consultants’ Vice President of Independent Advisor Services, Josh Tomolak, for a practical discussion of how the independent space has evolved, what truly differentiates the IBD and…
In 2025, the IMF reported that, across the globe, companies, households, and countries had amassed $251 trillion in debt. Looking toward the end of 2026, J.P. Morgan has warned that interest rates on such borrowings are set to spike, owing largely to dwindling populations and diminishing fiscal discipline. JPMorgan’s Joyce Chang and team unpacked the…
“Baby-faced” billionaire Yang Zhilin recently dealt the biggest shock to Western markets since DeepSeek, wiping hundreds of billions of dollars off the valuations of AI and chip stocks. Kimi K3, developed by Yang’s Moonshot AI, is the most advanced “open-weight” large language model to emerge from China yet, topping many benchmarks with its capabilities “at…