Queensland

A judge has ruled in favour of a funder who unknowingly agreed not to claim ownership over a council refund worth $800,000, the court finding that the developer’s director intended to claim the refund without the funder’s knowledge. 

In a sign of rebounding optimism in the office property sector, real estate investment trust GPT Group has picked up a Brisbane tower in the CBD's Golden Triangle precinct for $380 million.

Detectives investigating alleged corruption in the construction industry have charged a man linked to a Victorian labour hire company with alleged ties to Queensland CFMEU officials, as part of cross-border raids on Wednesday.

A "practice of prudence" required a judge to recuse himself from a $1 billion lawsuit over the Callide power station, CS Energy said Monday.

The University of Queensland has signed an agreement with the Fair Work Ombudsman after it underpaid 16,000 staff a total of $11 million, the latest university in the spotlight for shortchanging employees. 

Charter Hall has picked up three industrial and logistics assets in South East Queensland, including an Australia Post distribution centre, for $192.4 million.

APA Group has made a final investment decision to proceed with the $259 million Sybella Creek solar and battery project in Mount Isa.

A judge has ordered a Gold Coast developer to honour two off-the-plan apartment contracts, finding it could not rely on sunset clauses to terminate the agreements.

A judge has refused summary judgment in a $694 million suit by a company controlled by Chinese state-owned developer Beijing Capital Land against the director of developer Arden Group alleging it defaulted on loans linked to residential developments in Sydney and Brisbane. 

A judge has found that new planning rules that make solar farm development applications more onerous in Queensland applied retrospectively to X-Elio’s proposed solar project in the Western Downs region.