Melbourne (City of Melbourne LGA), Victoria

Melbourne's Torrens register is run by a private concessionaire, SERV, under a 40-year deal signed in 2018; anyone can buy the registered proprietor of a parcel through LANDATA, but the fee page is 403 to the open web, no bulk owner product exists, and Victoria publishes suburb medians rather than sales — so the open record says the City of Melbourne's taxable land is worth $39.9 billion and nothing about who holds it.

11 buildings · 9 with an owner established · 36 sources · 11 tier A · prepared 2026-10-06

Can you find out who owns it?

Victoria is a Torrens jurisdiction under the Transfer of Land Act 1958: the Register of Land defines ownership and the registered proprietor is the owner. Since 2018 the registry has been administered not by the department but by SERV (Secure Electronic Registries Victoria), which states that 'the Victorian Government granted us a 40-year concession to administer registry services for the 160-year-old Victorian Land Titles Office'; LANDATA, the search portal, 'is owned by the State Government of Victoria and operated by SERV'. LANDATA's FAQ says 'The Titles Register is a public register' and that a Register Search Statement (Copy of Title) 'includes the name of the property owner' — so anyone can buy the owner of any parcel per title, but a search by a person's name is sold only through Information Brokers, and there is no bulk owner product at any price. The fee itself could not be quoted: LANDATA says all fees 'are published on the Land Use Victoria website', SERV's 1 July 2026 fee notice points to the same host, and land.vic.gov.au returns HTTP 403 to every scripted request. What is open is geometry and aggregates, not ownership or sales: Vicmap Property (every parcel polygon, CC BY 4.0) carries no owner, and the Valuer-General publishes quarterly suburb medians, not individual sales; per-sale data is gated to eligible professions through the Property Sales Data platform or bought per property. Foreign buyers are a spine fact: from 1 April 2025 to 30 June 2029 foreign investors are generally prohibited from purchasing established dwellings (FIRB guidance, updated 1 July 2026).

Is ownership public?Public, but one paid search at a time
Cost of one title searchNot available at any price
Bulk ownership dataNone published
Sale pricesAggregates only — no individual sales
Sites that forbid taking their data
  • realestate.com.au — “You must not: (a) use any automated device, software, process or means to access, retrieve, scrape, or index our Platforms or any content on our websites”
  • domain.com.au — “Terms page could not be opened to quote a clause: HTTP 403 (410-byte Akamai body) to a scripted fetch of /group/terms-conditions/. Domain's terms are known to forbid automated collection and its research pages are 403, so it is treated as prohibited and not used; the Valuer-General's suburb medians and the ABS replace it.”
1

The marquee buildings

The towers that set the tone of the core, and who holds them. A price is the price a document states, on the date it states — not an estimate of what the building is worth now.

BuildingUseOwner Owner typeLast price paid
80 Collins Street (South Tower, North Tower, Next Hotel)
80 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 (City of Melbourne LGA)
Mixed use Dexus (75%) and Dexus Wholesale Property Fund (25%)
Dexus 75%, DWPF 25%
Dexus's FY26 Annual Report states: '80 Collins is owned by Dexus (75%) and DWPF (25%).' The same page describes 'this $1.5 billion mixed-use precinct' at 'the revered Paris-end of Collins Street' as 'a 38-level Premium grade office tower, a 51-level A-grade tower, the 255-room Next Hotel and 24 global luxury and Australian designer brands of curated retail and dining'; the report credits office occupancy of 95.7% partly to leasing at 80 Collins Street. The $1.5 billion is Dexus's description of the precinct, not a stated purchase price, so nothing is entered under acquired. The registered proprietor could be bought per title through LANDATA but is not open.
REIT —A
Melbourne Central (shopping centre and Melbourne Central Tower)
211 La Trobe Street and 360 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 (City of Melbourne LGA)
65,800 sqm office tower + 55,700 sqm retail (GPT property pages) · 51 floors
Mixed use The GPT Group
100% (both the tower and the retail centre, as GPT's property pages state)
GPT's own property pages state 'Ownership 100%' for Melbourne Central Tower ('a 51 level, Premium Grade office' tower, 'Size 65,800sqm') and 'Ownership 100%' for the Melbourne Central retail centre ('Size 55,700sqm'). GPT's 2025 Annual Report adds that the 'Melbourne Central project is continuing as planned with works to commence in the second half of 2026, subject to board approval', and that Melbourne Central was 'named Australia's most' productive centre. The centre's website carries GPT's copyright. No purchase price or date is stated in either document.
REIT —A
530 Collins Street
530 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 (City of Melbourne LGA)
65,000 sqm (GPT)
Office GPT Wholesale Office Fund (GWOF), an unlisted fund managed by The GPT Group
100% GWOF
GPT's property page states 'Ownership 100% GWOF' and 'Size 65,000sqm' for this 'Premium Grade commercial office building' at Collins and King Streets. GWOF is not GPT: the 2025 Annual Report records GPT's own equity interest in the fund at 21.63% (2024: 21.66%), gives GWOF gross assets of $8.5 billion, and notes that in November 2025 GWOF's investors 'supported a proposal to defer the existing 10-year liquidity event from July 2026 to July 2028'. The fund's other investors are not named. Per GPT's pages the same fund holds Queen & Collins (100%, 33,600 sqm), 2 Southbank Boulevard (100%, 53,900 sqm) and 50% of 8 Exhibition Street (44,500 sqm).
Institution —A
Collins Place (35 and 45 Collins Street, Sofitel Melbourne on Collins)
35-45 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 (City of Melbourne LGA)
102,000 sqm NLA (Mirvac FY26 Property Compendium)
Mixed use Mirvac Wholesale Office Fund (MWOF), an unlisted fund managed by Mirvac
Fund ownership 100%
Mirvac's FY26 Property Compendium lists Collins Place in the Mirvac Wholesale Office Fund schedule: 'COLLINS PLACE, MELBOURNE, VIC, A GRADE, Fund ownership 100%, 102,000 SQM, 3.5 Star' NABERS. The same schedule gives MWOF 11 assets and 735,000 sqm, with Bourke Place (Premium, 100%, 67,000 sqm) and 700 Bourke Street (A grade, 100%, 64,000 sqm) as its other Melbourne holdings; Mirvac's FY26 Annual Report describes the '$7bn Mirvac Wholesale Office Fund'. Mirvac is the manager and the schedule does not state Mirvac's own co-investment in the fund. collinsplace.com.au is served from Mirvac's Sitecore platform and carries the Mirvac logo. No price or date of acquisition is stated.
Institution —A
Olderfleet, 477 Collins Street
477 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 (City of Melbourne LGA)
58,594 sqm NLA (Mirvac)
Office Mirvac (interest held on Mirvac's balance sheet; percentage not stated in the schedule read)
Mirvac's FY26 Property Compendium lists 'OLDERFLEET 477 COLLINS STREET, MELBOURNE, VIC' in Mirvac's own office portfolio table: 58,594 sqm NLA, 8.6% of the office portfolio by value, gross office rent $1,005/sqm and a valuation at 30 June 2026 of $424m, 'an iconic 58,000 square metre Premium-grade office tower'. The table read carries no ownership-percentage column, so Mirvac's share is not asserted and no co-owner is named; $424m is a book valuation, not a sale. Other Melbourne assets in the table: 90 Collins St ($240m), 664 Collins St ($101m), 7-23 Spencer St ($183m), 699 Bourke St ($83m), Riverside Quay ($280m).
REIT —A
Crown Melbourne
8 Whiteman Street, Southbank VIC 3006 (City of Melbourne LGA)
Hotel Crown Resorts Limited (ACN 125 709 953)
Crown's About Us page: 'In Australia, Crown owns and operates two of Australia's leading integrated resorts, Crown Melbourne and Crown Perth, as well as Sydney's latest premium hotel resort and dining precinct at Crown Sydney.' Crown Resorts is an unlisted company; the page does not state its shareholder and blackstone.com was not opened for this record, so the ultimate owner is not asserted here. The complex spans the Southbank block between Whiteman Street, Clarendon Street and the Yarra, inside the City of Melbourne.
Private company —A
Melbourne Cricket Ground
Brunton Avenue, East Melbourne VIC 3002 (Yarra Park, City of Melbourne LGA)
Institutional Melbourne Cricket Ground Trust (statutory trustee of permanently reserved Crown land)
The Melbourne Cricket Ground Act 2009 (authorised version at 21 August 2024) recites the 1861 reservation 'as a metropolitan cricket ground' and the 1862 Crown grant to trustees; section 5 provides that 'The Trust is deemed to be the grantee of the Ground' under Crown grant Volume 5925 Folio 1184828, and that the Ground 'is deemed to continue to be permanently reserved under section 4(1) of the Crown Land (Reserves) Act 1978'. The MCC's governance page adds that 'The government-appointed MCG Trust vests administration of the Melbourne Cricket Ground in the Melbourne Cricket Club' under an agreement that 'expires in 2042'. Management, not ownership.
Government —A
Fed Square (Federation Square)
Corner Swanston and Flinders Streets, Melbourne VIC 3000 (City of Melbourne LGA)
Civic Melbourne Arts Precinct Corporation (MAP Co), a Victorian State business corporation
MAP Co's Annual Report 2024-25 states that it 'is a State Business Corporation established under the State Owned Enterprises Act 1992 and is wholly owned by the Victorian State Government', that its functions on behalf of the State include to 'own, control, manage, operate, promote and develop Fed Square and other MAP Co managed sites', and its balance sheet carries 'Freehold land at fair value 190,900,000' at 30 June 2025. On 1 July 2022 MAP Co took over Fed Square Pty Ltd, since wound up (2022-23 report). fedsquare.com/about says the square 'is run by the Melbourne Arts Precinct Corporation'. The land values are the corporation's fair values, not a sale.
Government —A
435 Bourke Street (under construction, completion 2026)
435 Bourke Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 (City of Melbourne LGA)
62,000 sqm office + 1,300 sqm retail (Cbus Property) · 48 floors
Office Cbus Property (wholly owned by Cbus Super)
Cbus Property's project page describes 'the $1.1 billion, 48-level tower' that 'will deliver 62,000 sqm of premium office space, 1,300 sqm of retail and a dramatic three-level sky garden', with completion 2026, builder Multiplex and architect Bates Smart, and states that 'Cbus Property is a wholly owned entity of CBUS Super, the industry superannuation fund for the construction, building and allied industries, with funds under management exceeding $105 billion at 30 June 2025'; its 'property portfolio currently exceeds $7.8 billion'. The $1.1 billion is the developer's stated project value, not a purchase price. Whether any co-investor holds an interest is not stated on the page.
Pension fund —A
Rialto Towers
525 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 (City of Melbourne LGA)
Office Not established
a paid title search would answer it
Left blank deliberately. Rialto's own About page names Knight Frank as building manager ('Knight Frank oversees Rialto's Building Management operations') and Cushman & Wakefield as leasing agents, and describes Vue de monde 'Savoured 55 floors up', but nowhere states who owns the towers; management is not ownership. No owner filing was opened. A Register Search Statement through LANDATA would name the registered proprietor for a per-title fee that could not be quoted because the Land Use Victoria fee page returns 403.
Not established —A
Emporium Melbourne
287 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne VIC 3000 (City of Melbourne LGA)
Retail Not established
a paid title search would answer it
Left blank deliberately. emporiummelbourne.com.au carries Vicinity's standard footer ('As an owner and manager of community hubs right across Australia, Vicinity acknowledges...'), which is the same sentence Vicinity runs on every centre site and does not state Vicinity's interest in this centre or name a co-owner; Vicinity's own portfolio page (vicinity.com.au/our-centres) returns HTTP 403 to curl and to WebFetch, so its filing could not be read. Nothing here says who holds the freehold. A LANDATA title search would settle it.
Not established —A
2

The core land

The most valuable ground in the city, and what the public record says about it.

Victoria publishes no parcel-level value: council rating valuations and the Valuer-General's site values are not open per property, and the Valuer-General's own quarterly sales report (CC BY 4.0) gives suburb medians in XLS files on a host that is 403 to scripts. The closest open thing to a valuation roll is the State Revenue Office's land tax by municipality file — total taxable site value and taxable property count per LGA, which excludes exempt land such as owner-occupied homes. On that measure the City of Melbourne is the most valuable ground in the state by a wide margin.

Taxable site value, City of Melbourne LGA (2025 land tax year)$39,941,021,416
SRO 'Land tax by municipality 2025': MELBOURNE, 102,738 taxable properties, total unimproved value $39,941,021,416, proportionate tax $875,641,528 (12.15% of the state's land tax). 'Data as at March 2026', published 29 September 2026. Highest of Victoria's 79 LGAs; next are Mornington Peninsula ($34.47bn), Wyndham ($28.23bn), Monash ($28.20bn), Casey ($27.31bn). Our sum of all LGAs: $665.29bn across 1,234,896 taxable properties. Excludes exempt land such as principal places of residence.
Taxable site value, City of Melbourne LGA (2024 land tax year)$41,890,544,319
SRO 'Land-tax-by-municipality-2024.csv': MELBOURNE, 104,416 properties, total unimproved value $41,890,544,319, tax $903,063,745 (12.78% of the state). The 2025 figure is $1.95bn (4.7%) lower on 1,678 fewer taxable properties — the SRO file does not explain the movement, so none is inferred.
Dwelling units approved, City of Melbourne LGA, FY2025-263,966
ABS Data API, dataflow BA_LGA2025, region 24600, July 2025 to June 2026, all sectors (code 9), building type total: 3,966 dwelling units, of which 8 are coded 110 (houses) and 3,948 are new residential buildings coded 100; private sector 3,718, public sector 248. CC BY 4.0. The City of Sydney LGA approved 1,694 in the same year.
Fair value of the freehold land under Fed Square$190,900,000
Melbourne Arts Precinct Corporation Annual Report 2024-25, 'Freehold land at fair value', 30 June 2025 — the one open, per-site land value found for the City of Melbourne. The 2022-23 report carried the same land at $225,000,000 on transfer from Fed Square Pty Ltd.
Title search feenot quotable (fee page 403)
LANDATA's FAQ: 'All LANDATA fees are published on the Land Use Victoria website'; SERV's notice of 3 June 2026 says fees changed on 1 July 2026 and links land.vic.gov.au/land-registration/fees-guides-and-forms/2026-27-fees, which returned HTTP 403 to curl and to WebFetch, as did the LANDATA service-charges .docx for 2026-2027 found by search. A search by address rather than volume/folio also attracts a Land Index Search fee (LANDATA FAQ). The fee is therefore null on this record rather than guessed.
5

Who builds the houses

New-home building in this market: the volume, and the firms behind it. Ownership of a builder matters as much as its volume — a private-equity platform and a family firm behave differently.

The City of Melbourne builds apartments, not houses: of 3,966 dwelling units approved in the LGA in FY2025-26 (ABS), 8 were houses. Australia's one genuine builder league table, the HIA Housing 100, ranks the largest 100 residential builders by homes commenced nationally; the free release of 23 September 2026 names only the top of the 2025/26 table (70,553 homes commenced by the 100, up 9.4%; detached 52,058, semi-detached 7,397, multi-unit 11,098; 35% of all new homes). It does not say where each group's starts are, so no Victorian share is inferred. Victoria's volume builders appear through Sumitomo Forestry Australia's brands (Henley, Metricon) and through Simonds, whose own ASX report is the one builder filing opened; the HIA ranked report that would place them is a paid product.

NameTypeNew home starts (HIA Housing 100 2025/26, national, unless stated)
Sumitomo Forestry Australia (Henley, Wisdom, Scott Park Group, Metricon)
Ranked first in 2025/26 'across these four Australian home building businesses', following 'Sumitomo Forestry's acquisition of Metricon', which 'had held the number one position on the Housing 100 for the previous decade'. The release does not describe the parent or where the starts are.
Not established 8,038A
ABN Group
'Australia's second largest home builder with 3,764 starts.' Location of starts not stated.
Not established 3,764A
NEX Building Group
'moved from fourth to third with 3,585 starts.'
Not established 3,585A
Parkview Constructions
'Australia's largest multi-unit builder, commencing 2,735 homes' — a contractor, i.e. the builder rather than the developer or owner of what it starts.
Not established 2,735A
Hutchies (Hutchinson Builders)
Third-largest multi-unit builder (1,907 starts); 'moved from 14th to eighth' overall.
Not established 1,907A
Simonds Homes (Simonds Group Limited)
Simonds Group's Annual Report 2024 (year ended 30 June 2024): 'Simonds Homes recorded 1,772 site starts for the period, 179 down on the previous corresponding period.' An ASX-listed builder with its 75-year history in Victoria; its 2025 and 2026 reports were not on the investor page read, so the figure is two years old and is labelled as such.
Public company 1,772 site starts, FY2024 (company report, not HIA)A
6

Commercial landlords

The commercial side, counted separately from housing: who holds the office, retail and industrial floor area.

No floor-area league table for Melbourne landlords could be opened: the Property Council's site is 403 to scripts and its Office Market Report is a member product. The substitute is the owners' own schedules, and four opened with asset-level statements for the City of Melbourne — GPT (listed trust plus its wholesale office fund), Dexus, Mirvac (balance sheet plus its wholesale office fund) and Cbus Property — with IFM Investors (which absorbed ISPT) and Crown giving portfolio-level statements only. Charter Hall and Vicinity are 403 to automation and Lendlease's APPF Commercial fund page (Melbourne Quarter) returned 404, so they sit under 'unverified'. Management is not ownership: the wholesale funds are named as the owners and their managers as managers.

NameTypePortfolio (as the document states it)
The GPT Group (ASX: GPT) and GPT Wholesale Office Fund (GWOF)
Ownership percentages and sizes are as GPT's own property pages state them. GPT's 2025 Annual Report: GWOF 'has gross assets of $8.5 billion', GPT's equity interest in GWOF is 21.63%, and GWOF's investors agreed in November 2025 to defer the fund's 10-year liquidity event to July 2028; GPT also reported the '750 Collins Street divestment' progressing GWOF strategy and the Melbourne Central redevelopment due to start in the second half of 2026 subject to board approval.
REIT Melbourne Central 100% (55,700 sqm retail + 65,800 sqm tower); GWOF: 530 Collins St 100% (65,000 sqm), Queen & Collins 100% (33,600 sqm), 2 Southbank Blvd 100% (53,900 sqm), 8 Exhibition St 50% (44,500 sqm)A
Mirvac Group (ASX: MGR) and Mirvac Wholesale Office Fund (MWOF)
FY26 Property Compendium (valuations at 30 June 2026; MWOF 'Fund ownership' column). FY26 Annual Report: '$7bn Mirvac Wholesale Office Fund (MWOF)', 'the renewal of NAB at 700 Bourke Street, Melbourne, for over 61,700sqm of net lettable area, representing the largest leasing deal in the market for 2025'; MWOF raised approximately $630m of equity since April 2025. Mirvac's percentage interests in its balance-sheet Melbourne assets are not stated in the table read.
REIT MWOF: Collins Place 100% (102,000 sqm), Bourke Place 100% (67,000 sqm), 700 Bourke St 100% (64,000 sqm) — fund total 735,000 sqm, 11 assets; Mirvac balance sheet: Olderfleet 477 Collins ($424m), 90 Collins ($240m), 664 Collins ($101m), 7-23 Spencer ($183m), 699 Bourke ($83m), Riverside Quay ($280m), 380 St Kilda Rd (held for sale)A
Dexus (ASX: DXS) and Dexus Wholesale Property Fund (DWPF)
FY26 Annual Report. Melbourne is also where Dexus sold: the disposals table records '30 September 2025, 172 Flinders Street & 189 Flinders Lane, Melbourne VIC', proceeds $245.3m excluding transaction costs — the one dated Melbourne sale price found in any filing opened. The buyer is not named in the report. 480 Queen Street, Melbourne, also appears in the report as a Dexus asset.
REIT $20.2b office across the Dexus platform; 80 Collins Street (Dexus 75%, DWPF 25%)A
Cbus Property (wholly owned by Cbus Super)
Cbus Property's own pages; head office Level 7, 447 Collins Street (Collins Arch). The portfolio page lists 435 Bourke Street as its City of Melbourne office project; Collins Arch itself is not on the current properties list and is not claimed.
Pension fund Portfolio 'exceeds $7.8 billion', plus '$3.4 billion of development work in hand'; 435 Bourke Street ($1.1bn, 48 levels, 62,000 sqm, completion 2026)A
IFM Investors (formerly ISPT, the industry-super property trust)
IFM's office page: 'IFM Investors invests in and manages a A$8.4bn portfolio of office building assets across Australia' and names '500 Bourke Street in Melbourne' as a retrofitted asset in the portfolio; ispt.net.au now redirects to IFM ('ISPT is now IFM Investors'). The page does not give a per-asset ownership percentage, so no individual Melbourne building is attributed to IFM in the marquee list.
Pension fund A$8.4bn office portfolio across Australia, as at 30 June 2026A
Crown Resorts Limited
Crown states it 'owns and operates' Crown Melbourne; its own shareholder is not stated on the page and is not asserted.
Private company Crown Melbourne (integrated resort, Southbank), plus Crown Perth and Crown SydneyA
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Looked for and not found

Claims this page would have made if a source could be opened. They are left out rather than guessed.

  • The LANDATA title search fee for 2026/27: published on land.vic.gov.au (the 2026-27 fees page and the 'LANDATA service charges 2026-2027' .docx), which is 403 to curl and to WebFetch; SERV's own fee-change notice only links to it.
  • Charter Hall's Melbourne office holdings (its site is 403 to automation) and Vicinity's interest in Emporium Melbourne and in Chadstone (vicinity.com.au is 403). The pack's Chadstone row is outside the City of Melbourne LGA (Malvern East, City of Stonnington) and is not used.
  • Lendlease's Melbourne Quarter ownership through APPF Commercial: both fund-page URLs tried returned Lendlease's 404 page.
  • Brookfield's Melbourne holdings: not attempted after the rebrand to BGRE noted in the brief; no filing was opened, so no Brookfield asset is named.
  • Who holds the other 50% of 8 Exhibition Street (GWOF 50%) and Mirvac's percentage in Olderfleet, 477 Collins Street: neither schedule read states it.
  • Melbourne Town Hall and the Queen Victoria Market as City of Melbourne property: melbourne.vic.gov.au returns an empty 202 to scripts and 403 to WebFetch; qvm.com.au names 'Queen Victoria Market Pty Ltd' but not its shareholder.
  • Rialto Towers' owner: rialto.com.au names only its manager (Knight Frank) and leasing agents.
  • Crown Resorts' shareholder: not stated on Crown's site; blackstone.com was not opened.
  • Victorian Property Sales Report medians for City of Melbourne suburbs: the CC BY XLS files (e.g. median-house-march-quarter-2026.xls) are hosted on land.vic.gov.au, which is 403 to scripts.
  • The SRO land-tax file's licence: the pack states CC BY 4.0, but the 2025 statistics page opened does not display a licence line, so the source is cited with republish false.
  • Simonds Group's FY2025 and FY2026 site starts: only the 2024 Annual Report is linked from the investor page read.
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Sources

  1. LANDATA Frequently Asked Questions — 'The Titles Register is a public register'; proprietor name search only via Information Brokers; 'All LANDATA fees are published on the Land Use Victoria website' — SERV (Secure Electronic Registries Victoria), operator of LANDATA for the State of Victoria · openA
  2. About LANDATA — 'owned by the State Government of Victoria and operated by SERV'; 'In 2018, the Victorian Government granted us a 40-year concession to administer registry services' — SERV · openA
  3. Fee changes come into effect on 1 July 2026 (3 June 2026) — points to the 2026/27 fee list on land.vic.gov.au — SERV · openA
  4. 2026-27 fees (Land Registry fee schedule, the page SERV links as the comprehensive 2026/2027 list) — Land Use Victoria, Department of Transport and Planning · blockedC
  5. Vicmap Property — Property Polygon with Property and Address Detail (dataset record, last updated 03/10/2026) — Department of Transport and Planning, Victoria, on DataVic · openA
  6. Victorian Property Sales Report — Median House by Suburb (quarterly; dataset record last updated 29/09/2026; XLS files hosted on land.vic.gov.au) — Department of Transport and Planning (Valuer-General Victoria), on DataVic · openA
  7. Victorian Property Sales Data — access to the Property Sales Data platform is limited to eligible organisations and professions; others buy a Property Sales History and Valuation Report per property — SERV / Land Use Victoria · openA
  8. Guidance: Residential land (last updated 1 July 2026) — 'From 1 April 2025 to 30 June 2029, foreign investors are generally prohibited from purchasing established dwellings' — Foreign Investment Review Board / Australian Treasury · openA
  9. Land tax by municipality 2025 (property count, total unimproved value and proportionate tax per LGA; 'Data as at March 2026', updated 29 September 2026; CSV land-tax-by-municipality-2025.csv) — State Revenue Office Victoria · openA
  10. Building Approvals by LGA (dataflow ABS,BA_LGA2025,1.0.0), monthly, region 24600 (Melbourne), July 2025 - June 2026 — Australian Bureau of Statistics Data API · openA
  11. Dexus 2026 Annual Report (year ended 30 June 2026) — '80 Collins is owned by Dexus (75%) and DWPF (25%)'; disposals table — Dexus (ASX: DXS) · openA
  12. Melbourne Central Tower, 360 Elizabeth Street — 'Ownership 100%', 'Size 65,800sqm', 51 level Premium Grade office — The GPT Group (ASX: GPT) · openA
  13. Melbourne Central (retail) — 'Ownership 100%', 'Size 55,700sqm' — The GPT Group · openA
  14. 530 Collins Street — 'Ownership 100% GWOF', 'Size 65,000sqm' — The GPT Group · openA
  15. The GPT Group 2025 Annual Report — GPT's 21.63% interest in the GPT Wholesale Office Fund; GWOF gross assets $8.5 billion; liquidity event deferred from July 2026 to July 2028 — The GPT Group · openA
  16. Mirvac FY26 Property Compendium — MWOF schedule (Collins Place, Bourke Place, 700 Bourke Street, 'Fund ownership 100%') and Mirvac office portfolio valuations at 30 June 2026 — Mirvac Group (ASX: MGR) · openA
  17. Mirvac Group FY26 Annual Report — '$7bn Mirvac Wholesale Office Fund (MWOF)'; NAB renewal at 700 Bourke Street for over 61,700sqm — Mirvac Group · openA
  18. About Us — 'Crown owns and operates two of Australia's leading integrated resorts, Crown Melbourne and Crown Perth' — Crown Resorts Limited (ACN 125 709 953) · openA
  19. Melbourne Cricket Ground Act 2009, authorised version as at 21 August 2024 — s5 'The Trust is deemed to be the grantee of the Ground'; Crown grant Volume 5925 Folio 1184828; permanently reserved Crown land — Chief Parliamentary Counsel, Victoria (legislation.vic.gov.au) · openA
  20. Management of the MCG — 'The government-appointed MCG Trust vests administration of the Melbourne Cricket Ground in the Melbourne Cricket Club'; agreement expires 2042 — Melbourne Cricket Club (mcg.org.au) · openA
  21. Melbourne Arts Precinct Corporation Annual Report 2024-25 — 'wholly owned by the Victorian State Government'; functions include to 'own, control, manage, operate, promote and develop Fed Square'; freehold land at fair value $190,900,000 — Melbourne Arts Precinct Corporation (MAP Co), a State business corporation · openA
  22. About Fed Square — 'Fed Square is run by the Melbourne Arts Precinct Corporation (MAP Co)' — Fed Square / MAP Co · openA
  23. 435 Bourke Street, Melbourne — '$1.1 billion, 48-level tower', '62,000 sqm of premium office space', completion 2026, builder Multiplex; 'Cbus Property is a wholly owned entity of CBUS Super' — Cbus Property · openA
  24. Rialto — About (building management by Knight Frank; no owner named) — Rialto, 525 Collins Street · openA
  25. Emporium Melbourne (centre website; Vicinity's standard 'owner and manager of community hubs' footer) — Vicinity Centres · openA
  26. A new decade, a new name tops the list of Australia's largest home builders — 2025/26 HIA Housing 100 (23 September 2026) — Housing Industry Association · openA
  27. Simonds Group Limited Annual Report 2024 (year ended 30 June 2024) — 'Simonds Homes recorded 1,772 site starts for the period' — Simonds Group Limited (ASX: SIO) · openA
  28. Our office portfolio — 'IFM Investors invests in and manages a A$8.4bn portfolio of office building assets across Australia' (as at 30 June 2026); 'ISPT is now IFM Investors' — IFM Investors · openA
  29. Terms of Use — REA Group (realestate.com.au) · openA
  30. Domain Group terms and conditions — Domain Holdings Australia · blockedC
  31. Charter Hall corporate site — Charter Hall Group (ASX: CHC) · blockedC
  32. Our centres (portfolio page) — Vicinity Centres (ASX: VCX) · blockedC
  33. Queen & Collins, 376-390 Collins Street — 'Ownership 100% GWOF', 'Size 33,600sqm' — The GPT Group · openA
  34. 2 Southbank Boulevard — 'Ownership 100% GWOF', 'Size 53,900sqm', 37 levels — The GPT Group · openA
  35. 8 Exhibition Street — 'Ownership 50% GWOF', 'Size 44,500sqm' — The GPT Group · openA
  36. Melbourne Town Hall / Queen Victoria Market pages (host returns HTTP 202 with an empty body to scripts and 403 to WebFetch) — City of Melbourne · blockedC