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Our community is comprised of industry professionals from every stage of the development lifecycle; from developers, financiers and marketers to architects, planners and builders.

03/10/2026

The mall centres around an historic building dating to 1870 and it is on the block for the first time in more than 30 years… Read all about it here: https://ebx.sh/o5kL4u

Eight-Tower Plan Lodged in Decade-Long Preston Market Saga 03/10/2026

The owner says the market’s future relies on housing delivery, and it is now planning 900 apartments for the iconic site...

Eight-Tower Plan Lodged in Decade-Long Preston Market Saga

03/10/2026

The visionary’s 2000-seat final major work is rising on Saadiyat Island and joins a cultural precinct that already includes the Louvre… Read all about it here: https://ebx.sh/ivx7GD

02/10/2026

Rajeev Ramprakash says Sobha's last three 40-storey buildings were delivered inside a 24-month period.

The part worth sitting with is what he says next.

Ramprakash, Chief Executive Officer at Sobha Realty Australia, says those Middle East benchmarks are quite akin to what could be achieved in Australia, if you had the right ingredients.

Construction productivity has been one of the recurring themes at Urbanity. This is a speaker saying the ceiling is not the market. It is what you bring to it.

So what are the missing ingredients?

Access the full video in the on-demand library on The Urban Developer website.

Two-Tower Co-Living Scheme to Transform West Perth’s Hay Street 02/10/2026

A 13-storey and 20-storey pair would replace an office block and car park, across from the heritage-listed Graham Flats...

Two-Tower Co-Living Scheme to Transform West Perth’s Hay Street

02/10/2026

Rajeev Ramprakash says three of the 10 most liveable cities in the world are in Australia.

That, plus market maturity, is what brought Sobha Realty here.

Ramprakash, Chief Executive Officer at Sobha Realty Australia, frames it as a two-part test. Mature markets first. Liveability second. Australia cleared both.

For a Dubai-based developer choosing where to expand, the interesting part is that neither reason is about price or yield. It is about the markets being stable and the cities being places people want to live.

Access the full video in the on-demand library on The Urban Developer website.

02/10/2026

A rail link to Melbourne Airport was first proposed in 1965. Now shovels will hit dirt on the second stage of the line, that stops short of its destination… Read all about it here: https://ebx.sh/1PvODN

02/10/2026

The national vacancy rate remained steady at 3.7 per cent, but the figures were diverging across capital cities with one outlier... Read all about it here: https://ebx.sh/jFgiW8

01/10/2026

The Cera Stribley-designed five-storey scheme would deliver 17 two and three-bedroom homes, a rooftop pool and ground-floor retail... Read all about it here: https://ebx.sh/zKQHqQ

01/10/2026

It’s the third proposal for the C*D parcel in as many years and would reinvent the site with retail, office, hotel and apartments... Read all about it here: https://ebx.sh/xDnyzM

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