B&B real estate fire sale
BABCOCK & Brown's entire $12.6 billion real estate management operation is on the sales block....

Bankers losing patience
BANKING syndicates' willingness to keep troubled property companies alive may be evaporating, banking analysts say....

Perennial drops GPT challenge
PERENNIAL Investment Partners has scrapped its legal challenge to GPT's $1.6 billion capital raising....

Hotels' good innings comes to an end
IT'S the beginning of the end of the buoyant era enjoyed by Australia's hotel industry over the past two years, a period characterised by high occupancies and aggressive rate rises in key markets....

Sunland looks past Dubai horizon
GOLD Coast developer Sunland Group is negotiating to purchase two high rise development sites -- one in Abu Dhabi and one in Qatar -- as it diversifies outside the overheated Dubai property market....

Abu Dhabi going green
A SPECIAL team from the United Arab Emirates is arriving in Australia in coming weeks with a rare message of economic and ecological optimism....

Water shortages hit almonds
ALMONDS may be agriculture's fastest-growing commodity....