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Alkimos Development 2026: Costco, a $82.9m Aquatic Centre and What Else Is Coming
Alkimos was empty coastal scrubland twenty years ago. In 2026, it has a train station, a Costco-anchored trade hub on the way, and an $82.9 million aquatic centre about to open. Here’s every live Alkimos development, its actual location, and what it costs. Written by Daniel Whitfield, founder of Australia Develops, who has personally bought,…
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Wyndham Vale Development 2026: The $333 Million Road Fix and What Else Is Coming
Wyndham Vale isn’t a brand-new growth corridor — it’s an established Melbourne suburb of more than 20,000 people that’s now catching up on the infrastructure it outgrew years ago. In 2026 alone, the suburb has a $26 million retail jobs hub approved. A major road intersection is under construction too, part of a package worth…
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Negative Gearing and CGT in 2026: What Property Investors Actually Face Now
Buying an investment property in Australia now means navigating a genuinely different rulebook than it did two years ago. Negative gearing and capital gains tax both work differently depending on what you buy and when you bought it, and the gap between an established home and a new build has never mattered more. Here’s exactly…
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Ripley Valley Development 2026: Inside the $5 Billion Build That’s Only 15% Done
Ripley Valley has already absorbed $5 billion in housing and infrastructure spending, and by independent local reporting it is still only about 15% built out. The Ripley Valley development covers 4,680 hectares south east of Ipswich, and it just opened its second major town centre in May 2026 while a 90-bed health campus, a new…
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Yarrabilba Development 2026: The $1.2 Billion Pipeline Behind 50,000 New Neighbours
Yarrabilba’s population has nearly tripled since the last census, and the Queensland government has already locked in $1.2 billion for the roads, water and wastewater the corridor needs to keep growing. The Yarrabilba development sits inside a 2,222-hectare Priority Development Area 20 kilometres south of Logan Central, and its town centre, industrial precinct and retail…
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From Dairy Farm to $2.3M Homes: The Oran Park Development Boom
Two brothers turned a dairy farm and a closed racing circuit into a suburb of more than 20,000 people. Houses on one street have sold for $2.35 million. Oran Park development now carries a $680 million construction pipeline across four years. That figure comes from the developer. Yet the largest retail approval in the town…
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Aerotropolis Precincts 2026: The Four Still Not Rezoned
The policy defines nine Aerotropolis precincts. Five of them carry zoning. Four have sat outside the land application map since the day the policy commenced in October 2020. Every project in the Aerotropolis pipeline sits in those five. The other four hold no precinct plan, no published rezoning date and no departmental page. Written by…
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Wianamatta South Creek Flooding Policy 2026: What It Controls
The Wianamatta South Creek flooding policy sets a threshold most landowners will find surprisingly low. A development that raises flood levels on neighbouring property by more than 10 millimetres counts as a significant adverse impact. The Department of Planning, Housing and Infrastructure finalised the policy in March 2026 and published it in April. It governs…
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Badgerys Creek Precinct 2026: Every Project and Its Status
Four projects hold approvals or sit in assessment inside the Badgerys Creek Precinct. One of them carries an expected end value of $1.9 billion on its own. The precinct wraps the eastern side of Western Sydney International Airport. Planning documents rule out housing here, so every project on the list is employment floor space. Written…
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Aerotropolis Core Development 2026: Every Bradfield Project and Its Status
The Aerotropolis Core carries six active development projects around Bradfield, the first new city Australia has built in a century. Approvals and lodged applications commit more than $2.3 billion of private capital. The NSW Government approved its eighth State Significant Development across the whole 11,200-hectare Aerotropolis in July 2026. Six years of the planning framework…