This Month
Rich Lister Harry Triguboff books 9 per cent dip in profit
Mr Triguboff’s Meriton Properties’ bottom line profit fell 9 per cent to $290 million, as income apartment sales dipped and management costs rose.
- Campbell Kwan
Harry Triguboff comes up against the Harry Seidler legacy
The billionaire Meriton founder is opposing heritage protection of a Bondi synagogue designed by Australia’s most famous modernist architect.
- Tom McIlroy
September
54 years on, Harry Triguboff finally makes his mark in Melbourne
The 298-room apartment hotel on King Street in Melbourne CBD’s - the Sydney property developer’s first foray in Victoria – has opened its doors.
- Larry Schlesinger
- Exclusive
- Property development
Meriton swoops on $50m Sydney site as receivership sales flood market
More than one in 10 development sites for sale in western Sydney are being sold by receivers, Peter Vines of Ray White Commercial says.
- Larry Schlesinger
New housing starts plunge 23pc as biggest builders struggle
The worst has passed for Australia’s home builders, but it’s not clear whether the demand is there to get the sector moving again.
- Michael Bleby
90yo Harry Triguboff kicks off $400m hotel expansion
Meriton will open its first Melbourne hotel on September 26 after launching in Canberra in August. A second Melbourne hotel is “on the cards”.
- Larry Schlesinger
May
If Rich Listers had to start over in 2023, what would they do?
We asked 10 Rich Listers, Young Rich Listers and notable entrepreneurs to gaze into the future and imagine they were building their careers from scratch now.
The biggest hits (and misses) from 40 years of the Rich List
Corporate raiders, post-war migrants, tech booms and busts – the annual scorecard of our most wealthy charts the ups and downs of Australian entrepreneurialism.
- James Thomson
April
Property Council hires former adversary
It’s not every day a lobby group appoints someone to a position previously used to kibosh that person’s policy initiatives.
- Myriam Robin
March
Details of guests, staff affected by data hack at Meriton Suites
The hotel business of Australia’s sixth-richest person, Harry Triguboff, has been hit by cybercrime.
- Michael Bleby and John Davidson
Triguboff’s 90th birthday party draws pollies and property tycoons
In the shadows of Meriton tower in central Sydney on Saturday, dozens of guests ascended the steps of Town Hall to celebrate property mogul and long-time Financial Review Rich Lister Harry Triguboff’s 90th birthday.
- Jessica Sier
10 of the best opinion reads from this week
From Nouriel Roubini’s inflation warnings to the RBA’s 10th interest rate rise and possible pause to leaked details about Australia’s AUKUS submarine deal. Here are 10 thoughtful opinion pieces from the past week.
- Opinion
- Property development
The ‘impossible’ Harry Triguboff turns 90
Australia’s most prolific apartment developer now spends less time on individual projects, and more time thinking about the future of a Meriton without him.
- Robert Harley
November 2022
High-rise Harry ups his game as Meriton gets iCIRT rated
If the federal government can achieve its goal of a million new homes in five years, the building quality in NSW, at least, will be better.
- Michael Bleby
May 2022
Total Rich List wealth soars past half a trillion dollars
With 137 billionaires on the list, it’s a record year for wealth creation as the gap widens between the top of the table and the rest.
- Julie-anne Sprague and Michael Bailey
April 2022
Harry Triguboff carves out his build-to-rent portfolio
The Rich Lister has been amassing a build-to-rent portfolio for decades, but with the market - and competition - growing, he wants his units to stand out.
- Michael Bleby
January 2022
- Exclusive
- Property development
Harry Triguboff reaches truce with working from home
The comments by the veteran developer are the clearest recognition that the world of work will not go back to its pre-pandemic norm.
- Michael Bleby and Joanna Mather
December 2021
Landlords back in the box seat as Sydney rental market turns
The pandemic prompted many landlords to put short-term apartment stock into the longer-term market. They’re now reversing that move.
- Michael Bleby
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Pandemic no more than an ‘interruption’: Scentre’s Peter Allen
Scentre Group chief executive Peter Allen says the gap between the company’s share price and its net assets will close.
- Tony Boyd
Rising costs a risk for developers and builders: Triguboff
Building companies need to give themselves a bigger buffer to account for higher costs and project delays, the veteran developer says.
- Michael Bleby