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The operator of the Snowy Mountains hydro-electric scheme has secured new partnerships with a South Australian wind farm and a Victorian battery storage facility.

Renewable energy company Ampyr has signed a $300 million battery storage deal with Denmark-based energy trading company InCommodities.

Global transport investment manager Realterm has acquired two logistics sites in Revesby and Ingleburn worth $89 million, expanding its Sydney portfolio to five assets. 

An owners corporation has won orders requiring builder Ceerose and developer Zone Q rectify some defects in a Sydney apartment building, but failed to win work orders in relation to others.

Launching a cross-claim in a former managing director's unfair dismissal case, commercial real estate broker Cushman & Wakefield wants orders for repayment of a $1.5 million bonus.

Landmark federal environmental law reforms that will up penalties for environmental breaches and fast-track approvals for renewable energy projects are set to pass the Senate.

The purchaser of Frankston’s $115 million Peninsula Kingswood Country Golf Club has lost a summary dismissal bid, with the court calling out its “contrariness” as stymieing the case's progress without real cause. 

A bid for approval of a seniors living complex on Sydney’s northern beaches has stalled after a court found a commissioner ignored mandatory considerations on the mistaken understanding that they conflicted with other planning requirements. 

Real estate asset manager Dexus has won access to advice given by the lawyers of two shareholders of airport operator APAC over an alleged breach of a shareholder deed. 

A judge has handed Shinetec a win in its dispute with the developer of a scuttled $185 million project in Sydney, finding that $48 million owed by the builder to its parent company after the developer called on a letter of credit fell within the definition of ‘secured money’.