Listed property gains
The ASX 200 A-REIT Index gained 3.73% in the week to 9 October, according to Property Markets News. In Prop Weekly's 11-security close-to-close tracker, Arena REIT rose 16.34%, Goodman Group 4.82% and Stockland 4.14%. The one-week price returns exclude distributions, and do not directly measure property valuations. The homepage's market-cap, year-on-year, year-to-date and CAGR columns are explicitly retained from the 2 October edition pending comparable baseline-price checks; they must not be read as 9 October returns.
The Reserve Bank's cash-rate target remains 4.60% after its 29 September decision, effective 30 September. That was last week's policy change, not a new decision in this reporting window. On the selected historical series, the Australian 10-year government-bond yield closed at 5.356% on 9 October, up 0.020 percentage points from the revised 2 October close of 5.336%. The July Property Council national office-vacancy reading of 16.1% and Savills' August report of $13.6 billion in rolling retail investment volume remain the latest comparable source periods displayed on the homepage.
Five selected completed sales
Prop Weekly's five selected completed, price-disclosed Australian commercial sales reported from 3 to 9 October totalled $441.97 million. This is a curated sample of published reports, not a national transaction-volume measure. Mirvac Wholesale Office Fund's $394 million purchase of a half-stake in Sydney's 5 Martin Place led the selection, followed by a $21.25 million Ballarat cold-storage sale-and-leaseback, an $11.5 million Rochedale industrial landholding, an $8.3 million Rippleside aged-care development site and a $6.92 million Yamanto service station. The selected-sample median is the third-ranked sale: $11.50 million.
Median for Top 5 Weekly Sales
Median disclosed value among Prop Weekly's five selected completed sales for each published edition.
| Week ending | Median of selected top five |
|---|---|
| 28 Aug 2026 | $38.0m |
| 4 Sep 2026 | $8.0m |
| 11 Sep 2026 | $12.25m |
| 18 Sep 2026 | $13.0m |
| 2 Oct 2026 | $9.50m |
| 9 Oct 2026 | $11.50m |
For five sales, the median is the third-ranked sale. Published editions are equally spaced; there is no placeholder for an unpublished week. This selected-sample series is not a national market median.
What to watch
Goldfields began construction on a planned $280 million Fortitude Valley office tower, while a market outlook forecast a tighter Perth CBD office market by 2030. Forecasts are not observations. The latest Property Council survey also reported weaker national industry sentiment before the late-September RBA increase, underscoring why financing and construction costs remain material to investment decisions.