Industrial property juggernaut Goodman has hung up the “house full” sign across its global portfolio after riding out the pandemic to post a $2 billion profit and forecast 20 per cent growth in operating earnings for the full year.
Australia Post has shored up its future processing business with the lease of a new warehouse that is the equivalent size of eight football fields and has the capacity to sort and send as many as 450,000 parcels per day.
Growth in rents from e-commerce customers lining up for big sheds is comfortably outstripping the rising costs of land and steel used to make them.
Major developers are now challenging themselves more than ever before to become the champions of change in sustainability.
Global property player and Australia’s largest industrial developer Goodman Group is racing to build more e-commerce and logistics sheds.
The pandemic’s disruption of supply chains is causing a demand frenzy for warehousing.
The five-day office week is well and truly dead as managers deal with a workforce that doesn’t want to go back to the way things were.
Demand for industrial and logistic property is reaching a fever pitch,leading to the lowest level of vacancy rates in key markets across the country.
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Supermarket giant Woolworths has ramped up its presence in the $5 billion cold storage industrial property sector to help satisfy the growing demand for same-day home deliveries of food,from the steak for dinner to feeding pampered COVID pets.
COVID-19 and environmental concerns are changing the face of logistics and mass storage away from single-storey to multi-level sheds.