Month: March 2020

6 Strategies to Juggle Work and Young Kids At Home: It’s About Flexibility and Boundaries

Author: Ruchi Shina (The Conversation) It’s hard enough juggling a job with parenthood when you’ve got young kids. But what do you do when social-distancing policies mean you’ve all been sent home? This is the reality many families now face. Schools have been shut in Britain, France, Germany, South Korea and all but five US…

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Sydney, Canberra Rental Markets

Sydney, Canberra – Most Expensive Rental Markets

Author: Renee Mckeown (The Urban Developer) Rents surged 0.5 per cent higher over the month to January after record house price growth into the first quarter of 2020, according to Corelogic’s latest quarterly report. The national median rental value went up to $440 a week following the rise in property prices in June 2019, and…

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3D Printed Building

Dubai to 3D Print 25pc of Buildings by 2030

Author: Renee Mckeown (The Urban Developer) The first fully-operational 3D-printed building opened in Dubai. The labour cost of creating the office was cut in half compared to traditional building methods. The one-storey building on Sheikh Zayed Road was dwarfed by neighbouring buildings including the Burj Khalifa, officially the tallest building in the world at 163-storeys…

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