THE Australian Property Institute has appointed Bruce Billson as an independent non-executive director to the board. Billson was the former Minister for Small Business from September 2013 to September 2015, and represented the seat of Dunkley from 1996 to 2016.…
© Copyright 2016, Donald Evan Gilbert. All rights reserved. I wrote this article in 2006. It is the product of an article I wrote in 1996. It has been published several times in industry magazines. I believe many franchised business…
Your house is your castle; avoid any form of debt; providing personal guarantees; directors guarantees at all costs including reverse mortgages ME Bank has thrown its weight behind a new reverse mortgage lender, providing $100 million of funding and taking…
Retail insolvencies on the rise, report finds - Inside Retail Australia - 4 Mar 2019 More than 465 bricks-and-mortar stores closed their doors for good in the US over the weekend, sparking headlines that the ‘retail apocalypse’ is alive and…
Three weeks after entering voluntary administration, specialty menswear retailer Ed Harry is closing down for good. It was the company’s only option, according to administrators Brendan Richards and Gayle Dickerson of KPMG, who said they had received no viable offers…
There is no doubt in our minds that Australian businesses have not been allowed to be “competitive”, excessive leasing costs and or “Old School” management style ……….. https://www.insideretail.com.au/news/three-kaufland-sites-approved-in-victoria-201903
Retail Food Group remains in danger of collapse as it tests the nerve of its financiers. The multi-brand franchisor has racked up losses of more than half a billion dollars in the past 18 months; its market capitalisation has fallen…
Wider Property Matters: “Cladding decisions now coming out about Australian Property Development https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/stunned-mullets-australias-response-grenfell-tower-disaster-gilbert/ https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-02-21/cladding-crisis-spreads-to-suburbs-materials-banned/
Intellectual Property: “Not only is breach of copyright in a general sense a serious issue, simply breaching a “pivotal part” of Intellectual Property is serious. Consider when Microsoft breached Lotus. How was it established; Lotus has a latent defect it…
Don Gilbert's investigative work into residential market as he teased out reasoning and logic of what was going on in that sector in Australia from early 2016 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/value-vs-price-discovery-misallocation-capital-retail-don-gilbert/ 4th April 2016 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/residential-rubberstamped-don-gilbert/ 6th May 2016 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/our-residential-casino-don-gilbert/ June 12th 2016 https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/australias-fetish-cost-price-don-gilbert/…