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The $155 billion PPP opportunity
Australia’s $155B PPP market is transforming communities - building vital schools, hospitals, and sustainable infrastructure, while delivering stable, inflation-linked returns.
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AREIT reporting season: positioned to outperform
Delivering one of the highest positive earnings revisions this reporting season, the case for Australian Real Estate Investment Trusts (AREITs) was once again made with conviction. Offering yield, growth and value, AREITs are positioned to continue to outperform.
23 Sep 2025
Quay Quarter Tower listed a 2025 finalist in The Earthshot Prize
Quay Quarter Tower (QQT), located in Sydney and Dexus’s Australian headquarters, has been named a 2025 finalist for The Earthshot Prize - the world’s most prestigious and impactful environmental award
13 Oct 2025
AREIT capital structures in great shape, here are two set to benefit
When a business fails, it is usually due to excessive debt. In the 2008 financial crisis, this was a lesson the AREIT sector learned the hard way. At the time, average AREIT gearing was above 40%. For a supposedly conservatively managed investment designed to deliver stable regular dividends, the figure was too high.
02 Oct 2025
The psychology of active REIT investing - Part 2
Active REIT investing requires skill, value focus, patience, and learning from past mistakes to avoid fear of missing out (FOMO)-driven decisions.
08 Oct 2025
The psychology of active REIT investing - Part 1
Investing, like life, is full of surprises. Whether those surprises are rewarding or terrifying, our response to them has a large bearing on the future investment returns of our clients.
30 Sep 2025
From students to seniors: Executing on the opportunities in Living
Australia’s living sectors are emerging as strategic investment opportunities. Supported by demographic shifts and a housing supply shortfall, student and seniors accommodation offer essential services, inflation-linked income, and defensive performance across cycles.
01 Sep 2025
Infrastructure outlook Q3 2025: Resilience and opportunity
Infrastructure investment gains momentum in Q3 2025, driven by energy, transport, and a stabilising economic and policy landscape.
22 Aug 2025
Retail reinvents itself as consumer confidence rebounds
Once viewed as the most exposed to structural disruption, the retail sector is reinventing itself as consumer confidence rebounds.
18 Aug 2025
Theatre Royal milestone cements 25 Martin Place as cultural CBD hub
The 25 Martin Place precinct has cemented its status as a cultural and commercial powerhouse in Sydney’s CBD, with Theatre Royal Sydney surpassing one million ticket sales since reopening in 2021.
08 Aug 2025
The green frontier: Unlocking value through decarbonisation in industrial real estate
Decarbonisation is driving demand and value in industrial real estate through ESG-aligned, energy-efficient assets.
01 Aug 2025
Research and market views
Australian Real Asset Review Q4 2025
Dexus Research's Real Asset Review for Q4 2025 describes key trends in the real asset market, confirming Australian real estate is entering a definitive cyclical upturn, backed by historical recovery patterns seen only twice in the past 35 years. This recovery has been coined 'the return of returns' by Peter Studley, Dexus Head of Research.
20 Oct 2025
Hot Take – AI might be the catalyst for more office demand
AI’s rise could boost office demand, as higher productivity drives collaboration and physical presence.
21 Oct 2025
Hot Take - ASIC RG97 review positive news for Australian real estate
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has decided to undertake a review of its requirement for superannuation funds to disclose the stamp duty paid on real estate acquisitions.
15 Aug 2025
Australian Real Asset Quarterly Review Q3 2025
Dexus Research's Real Asset Review for Q3 2025 describes the key trends in Australia's main real asset market including commercial real estate, healthcare and infrastructure, including a spotlight on office performance.
22 Jul 2025
Hot Take - If history repeats we could be in for a recovery in office markets
A peaking of the vacancy rate in the Sydney CBD signals a major turning point for the market. With planned supply a fraction of previous levels, there is a compelling recovery story.
06 Jun 2025
Australian Real Asset Review Q2 2025
The Q2 Australian Real Asset Review reveals the key trends in Australia's main real estate and infrastructure markets for 2025.
28 Apr 2025
Hot Take - What would a trade war mean for real assets?
The United States has announced a series of tariffs and other countries like China, Canada and Mexico are responding.
26 Mar 2025
Trending thematics
Retail reinvents itself as consumer confidence rebounds
Once viewed as the most exposed to structural disruption, the retail sector is reinventing itself as consumer confidence rebounds.
18 Aug 2025
Why now for Australian retail investment?
The investment case for Australian retail is strong. The industry as a whole has a positive outlook underpinned by a reset of retail property values to more realistic and favourable levels, supported by strong structural tailwinds.
13 May 2025
Global REITs : Standing up in uncertainty
For any investor or adviser that has lived through the past few weeks, the phrase 'geopolitical uncertainty' doesn't do the experience justice. The uncertainty caused by the anticipated impacts of a tariff war is already biting hard.
19 May 2025
Videos and podcasts
IMAP Podcast Series: REITs in focus – why listed property matters
Mark Mazzarella, Head of Real Estate Securities, featured on the latest episode of the IMAP Independent Thought Podcast, hosted by Emily Barlow from Perpetual Private.
23 Sep 2025
Highlights from the Q3 Australian Real Asset Review
Based on Dexus’s latest research, hear from our experts on how real assets are showing signs of resilience and recovery.
02 Sep 2025
Dexus Convenience REIT (DXC) FY25 results
During the year, DXC’s portfolio continued to generate defensive income with embedded growth through-the-cycle, providing stable returns for its investors, with like-for-like growth of 2.9%, high occupancy of 99.9% and a long WALE of 7.9 years.
27 Aug 2025
Dexus Industria REIT (DXI) FY25 results
DXI is primarily invested in high-quality industrial warehouses across major Australian cities, with a portfolio of 97 assets valued at $1.5 billion.
27 Aug 2025
Buying well and creating value – Jason Howes appears on ausbiz
In a recent interview with ausbiz, Jason Howes, Fund Manager of the Dexus Real Estate Partnership (DREP) series, shared insights into the strong performance of Dexus’s inaugural opportunity fund, DREP1.
15 Jul 2025
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