The 7 must-know numbers of the week, starting with the billions in mining in Gladstone
The amount of money currently invested in mining projects in the Queensland mining town of Gladstone. Gladstone ranked third in Your Investment Propertymagazine’s 2012 list of Top 100 suburbs and was ranked second last year. The town is home to the world’s biggest alumina refinery, Australia’s biggest aluminium smelter and the country’s largest cement operation. However, PRDnationwide says investors in the town face headwinds due to an expanding fly-in, fly-out workforce and investor demand grossly outstripping owner-occupier demand.
The height of the 95-storey London skyscraper The Shard, which officially opened on July 5 with a massive laser show. It is the tallest building in Europe. From the top it’s sometimes possible to see the English Channel, 80 kilometres away.
The number of consecutive months the Australian construction industry has contracted. The construction industry failed to rebound despite successive rate cuts in May and June.
The price hopes for Kenwood, John Lennon's former home in the United Kingdom, where his first marriage ended. The six-bedroom 1920s stockbroker Tudor-style house outside Weybridge, Surrey, is 24 miles (39 kilometres) south-west of London.
The amount (in US dollars) that Nicole Kidman secured for her redundant New York apartment. The high-rise apartment has a nine-metre-wide entrance gallery with sweeping views of the Hudson River
The office vacancy rate on the Gold Coast. The Gold Coast office vacancy rate tightened marginally in the first six months of the year from 22% to 21.5%.