Scouted Recruitment.

10/10/2025

🎓 scouted Academy Lesson 6: Property Recruitment Secrets | Your Recruitment FAQs Answered (Part 2)

We asked Jeremy & Nikita to answer more of your real-world questions about the recruitment process, quick-fire style.
•    Should recruitment fees be based on performance or placement?
•    Do we Google clients and candidates before meeting them?
•    Are we seeing communication and skills gaps in wfh environments?

Have your own question about careers or hiring in property? Drop it in the comments and we’ll tackle it in the next Q&A 👇

02/10/2025

scouted Academy Lesson 5: How to Get Hired in Property: Recruitment FAQs Answered 🎓

We put Jeremy & Nikita in the hot seat for a round of quick-fire questions, tackling some of the most common queries candidates throw our way:

- Should you apply if you don’t tick every box?
- Are cover letters still worth it?
- The #1 mistake that puts you back on the job hunt in six months!

Got your own burning questions about careers or hiring in the property industry? Drop them in the comments and we’ll cover them in an upcoming lesson. 👇

27/05/2025

Developer Milieu has filed amendments with the City of Glen Eira council to add another storey to one of the six buildings at the former ABC Studios site in Melbourne’s Elsternwick.

Demolition is under way on the Melbourne site, but the developer is back before the council to add more apartments to the scheme…

21/05/2025

IHG Hotels & Resorts will open luxury InterContinental properties in Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney and re-introduce its Regent brand after a two-decade absence. The company announced plans to rebrand a number of its lower-tier Crowne Plaza Hotels as part of a deal with Salter Brother

The international hotelier will rebrand three Crowne Plaza properties in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra and bring back the Regent chain after decades.

16/05/2025

QuadReal Property Group and GPT Group have announced a new Australian logistics joint venture to be known as GPT QuadReal Logistics Trust 2. The Partnership will be seeded with approximately $460 million of high quality, stabilised logistics assets located in east coast urban infill and middle ring locations.

QuadReal Property Group (‘QuadReal’) and GPT Group (‘GPT’ or ‘Group’) today announce a new Australian logistics joint venture to be known as GPT QuadReal Logistics Trust 2 (‘GQLT2’ or Partnership’).

12/03/2025

The $63 billion Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation has quietly snapped up a Melbourne CBD development site earmarked for a luxury apartment tower to protect the sweeping views of 101 Collins Street, the landmark office tower it owns. CSC bought the ageing 13-storey office building at 63 Exhibition Street for about $40 million from Salta Properties.

The Tarascio family has sold a Melbourne CBD site where a luxury apartment proposal would have obstructed views from the city’s top tower and its tenants.

06/03/2025

Australian Bureau of Statistics data show attached housing approvals – driven by apartments, rather than medium-density homes – picked up to 63,648 over the 12 months to January, up 1.5 per cent from a year earlier and marking the first such positive reading since July 2022. Geographically, NSW accounted for most of the recent gain, although Victoria and WA are also picking up.

A pickup in approvals after nearly 2½ years of decline has economists cheering – although developers say further incentives are needed.

05/03/2025

Colliers and Knight Frank have successfully sold 468 St Kilda Road, one of St Kilda Road's best office buildings, on behalf of Australian Unity Office Fund to Bayley Stuart for $42,550,000. The building comprises a 14-storey B-grade office building with ground floor retail and basement parking.

Colliers and Knight Frank have successfully sold 468 St Kilda Road, one of St Kilda Road's best office buildings, on behalf of Australian Unity Office Fund to Bayley Stuart for $42,550,000. Colliers' John Marasco, Matt Stagg, Anna Cavar, Knight Frank's Trent Preece, and Tom Ryan brokered the transac...

20/02/2025

Gateway Capital has brought together Canadian fund manager Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan and Asian sovereign wealth vehicle Korea Investment Corporation to acquire a prized $330 million logistics estate in Sydney. Brookfield's sale of the asset marks the largest deal in that market in more than five years.

Local player Gateway Capital has partnered with two global funds in the race for position in one of the world’s tightest markets for logistics properties.

12/02/2025

Development Victoria has filed a combined Planning Scheme Amendment and Planning Permit Application for the site of a former TAFE and secondary school in Melbourne’s northern suburbs for a build-to-rent development of 274 apartments. The proposal comprises four buildings designed by Hayball Architects, incorporating co-working spaces, a gym, library, extensive communal areas and ground floor cafe.

Four buildings of up to eight storeys has been proposed for the former TAFE site at Melbourne’s Coburg…

11/02/2025

Melbourne suburban retail strip vacancies have declined to their lowest level in seven years, as food and beverage operators and health and beauty retailers lead the recovery. According to BWP Advisors’ analysis, the overall vacancy rate of Melbourne’s prime strips fell from 11% to 8.6% over the past year.

Melbourne suburban retail strip vacancies have declined to their lowest level in seven years, as food and beverage operators and health and beauty retailers lead the recovery. BWP Advisors Founder Richard Jenkins said that Bridge Road, Richmond has the highest vacancy of any retail strip with more t...

04/02/2025

CBRE and Riverlee announce that Icon Cancer Centre, a strategic partnership between Riverlee and Icon Group and Australia's leading provider of comprehensive cancer care, has committed to a significant presence at the New Epping Health Hub (NEHH).

CBRE and Riverlee announce that Icon Cancer Centre, Australia's leading provider of comprehensive cancer care, has committed to a significant presence at the New Epping Health Hub (NEHH). This strategic partnership between Riverlee and Icon Groupwill substantially enhance the provision of critical c...