Metricon takes 8,200 sqm at Ferntree Business Park for head office

For developers and builders, the move shows a large residential builder taking a big block of purpose-built space in Melbourne’s outer east, away from its long-standing Blackburn Road base.

The numbers

According to the outlet, Metricon is taking 8,200 sqm in a new purpose-built facility. The site offers up to 400 on-site car spaces and signage rights, and the building is 95% leased. Other tenants named are Schneider Electric, Dahlsen Building Centres and Fujitsu.

Nearby amenities named include childcare, multiple cafes and Quest serviced apartments.

It also cites Colliers data that metro office leases transacted rose 30% to 154,000 sqm over FY26.

What’s next

The outlet points to other moves in the outer east. Kmart is due to relocate its 18,000 sqm headquarters to One Middle Road, Chadstone, in December 2026, and Adairs has committed to 3,630 sqm in the same development.

Colliers Director of Office Leasing Ash Dean also cited two other residential builders: Thomas Archer Homes took 1,200 sqm at 37 Dunlop Road, Nexus Business Precinct, and Carter Grange took 1,452 sqm at 315 Ferntree Gully Road, Urban Acres.

By our arithmetic on the outlet’s figures, the three builder leases it names (Metricon 8,200 sqm, Carter Grange 1,452 sqm and Thomas Archer Homes 1,200 sqm) total 10,852 sqm, and Metricon’s space is about 45 per cent of the 18,000 sqm Kmart headquarters planned for Chadstone.

For another Victorian development story from the past few days, see our report on Hamton and Hostplus clearing 539 Moonee Ponds homes.

The outlet gives no rent, lease term or move-in date, and we have not independently verified the deal, so the details above are as it reports them.