What the bench is writing.
Editorial, research, profiles, deal-desk write-ups and the Editor's letters. Every article belongs to one cohort — pick a cohort to read deeply, or scroll the latest below.
Research & Reports
Quarterly market data, valuation benchmarks and sector reports drawn from The Brain.
Profiles & Interviews
Operators, brokers and advisors — long-form conversations about how the businesses actually run.
Company News
Bench moves, listings won, settlements closed, and the firm's structural decisions.
Editor's Desk
The Informer's editor, on what to read closely this month and why.
Guides & Advice
How-to writing for buyers, sellers and operators. Lighter than Made Easy; more practical than research.
Industry Trends
What's moving in the asset classes — visa cohorts, lender appetite, CapEx cycles, regulatory drift.
Deal Desk
Behind-the-scenes on settled transactions — the structure, the negotiation, the lessons.
The bench picks.
Motel Report 2026.
Quarterly market data on the motel asset class — yields, deal counts, and where the pricing pressure is moving.
Editor's letter — Issue 112.
The Informer's editor on what to read closely in this month's issue, and why the Park Report inside is the most important piece we have run all year.
Alex Cook on resilience and the long deal.
The Director of our Hotels desk on what changes when a transaction takes 14 months instead of four — and why that's often the right outcome.
Across every desk.
On A Quest To Help
What started as a modest gathering in a backyard has grown into a meaningful and important Melbourne-based charity, without ever losing sight of why it began.
Fresh Faces
ResortBrokers is expanding — again! Meet our latest recruits.
Southern Comfort
Sarah serves ResortBrokers’ clients in one of Australia’s most stunningly gorgeous regions. Based in the Mollymook–Ulladulla area, Sarah’s territory stretches south as far as Batemans Bay, north to Shellharbour and inland to the Southern Highlands and Goulburn.
Star POWER
Of Australia’s more than 9,000 accommodation businesses, around 1,300 participate in the official Star Ratings program.
MAKE ROOM FOR GEN TIKTOK
For the past couple of years, couple Alex Mengual, 29, and Mark Matula, 30, have been documenting their experiences as young moteliers on social media. First on Instagram, then on TikTok.
Heavy Hitters & Rising Stars
From proven performers to innovators and disruptors, Informer’s power list celebrates the top 40 people tearing up the charts of Australia’s accommodation industry or who’ve made a lasting impact on our sector as pioneers. (Order is entirely random!).
Saddle Up for a Breakout Year!
I’ve said it of each passing year, but eternal optimist that I am, I think 2026 is going to be a belter for our industry.
Jack Be Nimble, Vendors Be Quicker
The market right now is like a hypersonic rocket — fast and hot (much like this crazy world we’re living in!).
Park Report Q1 2026.
Land-use rezoning, lender appetite for cabin upgrades, and the reset in caravan-park yields. The full quarterly.