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  The Australian Financial Review - 2 October, 2008.
APT makes moves on Record Realty

Melbourne-based Australian Public Trustees has put itself forward as a white Knight for the ailing Record Realty with an offer that could carve up the listed trust's $1.9 billion portfolio.
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The Australian Financial Review - 21 February 2008.
Prices will fall across the board
Property observed
Commercial property yields will rise. Which means that prices - of most office towers, strata suites, retail properties and factories - will fall.
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The Age- Saturday, 15 December, 2007.
APT fills investor stockings

Executives at Australian Public Trustees will be on every agent's Christmas card list this year.
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The Australian Financial Review - 15 -16 December, 2007.
APT may go to town at Investa pre-Christmas sale

Concerns over rising debt and a possible peaking of the commercial property market have not dented Investa Property Group's pre-Christmas mega-sale, with a group of government tennanted buildings set to sell for more than $350 million. MORE

 
 

The Financial Review, 31 July, 2007.
Public Trustees bags four bargains
A clutch of four properties spread across three states is the latest addition to Australian Public Trustees government property investment vehicle. MORE

 
 

The Financial Review, 17 May, 2007.
Investors eye $20bn uni property bonanza
Darren Olney-Fraser, chief executive at fund amanger Australian Public Trustees, is bullish about development opportunities in the $20 billion university property market following the federal government's creation of a large endowment fund. MORE

 
  The Australian Financial Review 4 May, 2007.
Sports hospital fillip for Olympic Park
A site at Sydney's Olympic Park once slated for an office building is to become a $60 million specialist sports hospital. MORE
 
  The Daily Mercury 9 November, 2006.
Pioneer Valley hospital sold to Sydney firm
MACKAY’S population growth and booming economy made Pioneer Valley Private Hospital an attractive investment for the Sydney-based private company that has just bought it. MORE
 
  The Australian Financial Review, 12 May, 2006.
APT raising cash for expansion
The $75 million Government Property Trust is on the hunt for more properties as it looks to stake a position as a leader in its specialised niche. MORE
 
  The Australian Financial Review, 16 March, 2006.
Fund picks up Ramsay hospitals
...Smaller property player Australian Public Trustees and private operator Owen Ferguson Health were shortlisted to bid for the Ramsey hospitals. MORE
 
  APT - Press Release 3 March, 2006.
Australian Public Trustees buys NSW hospital

Australian Public Trustees today announced the purchase of Lismore Private Hospital for $8 million from Owen Ferguson Health. MORE
 
  The Australian Financial Review, 10 February, 2006.
Investa calms worries over payout policy
...Meanwhile, Australian Public Trustees, which focuses on public infrastructure and government leased buildings, has snapped up a Canberra office building from Invsta. MORE
 
  The Sunday Age, 5 February, 2006.
Principals wary of state school trust sheme
PARENTS would be part-owners of their children's school under a radical plan by a former education minister to improve state schools. MORE
 
 

27 May, 2005.
Regional offices sell for $13.5m
Two significant investment properties in Bunbury and Midland have sold for a combined $13.75million, with selling agent DTZ Australia claiming it as one of the bigger sales outside the Perth central business district this year. MORE

 
  The Australian Financial Review - Tuesday 10 May, 2005.
Geelong's Taj fetches $15m
The notorious Geelong Tax Office building, once the headquarters of the failed Pyramid building society, has been sold in an off-market transaction for $l5 million. MORE
 
 

ASX Announcement - 23 December, 2004
Sale of Westside Private Hospital

Nova Health Limited (Nova) today announced that it has sold Westside Private Hospital in Concord, New South Wales for $3.5m.
The land and buildings have been purchased by Australian Public Trustees Ltd. The business will be owned and operated by Owen Ferguson Health Pty Ltd. MORE

 
  The Australian Financial Review - Wednesday 8 September, 2004.
APT in $15m Bendigo building buy

Australian Public Trustees has bought a large office building in Bendigo, claiming it as one of the largest regional deals for more than a decade. MORE
 
  The Australian Financial Review - Tuesady 2 March, 2004.
Bright ray of Sunshine in Melbourne

A state government building in Melbourne's outer western suburb of Sunshine has been bought for $8.26 million. The VicRoads Norwest regional office was sold by a private syndicate to an unlisted trust that specialises in government buildings. MORE