Catie Low

National retail chain Baby Bunting has set its sights on Perth’s competitive baby-wear sector after revealing plans to open its first two Western Australian stores before Christmas.

An Aboriginal perspective of the Canning Stock Route drawn from art centres along the remote desert track has been recognised in this year’s national Australia Business Arts Foundation awards.

FOR the first time in eight years, homebuilder BGC has lost its grasp on the top ranking in the Housing Industry Association’s annual homebuilders report.

Luke Saraceni is understood to be finalising a proposal whereby he could take over the beleaguered Port Geographe development in Busselton, amid talk the state government is close to committing fun

THE Barnett government this week broke free of a punitive, 25-year lease contract, closing the chapter on a business deal that dates back to the wheeling and dealing of Bond Corp and the WA Inc era

Western Australia’s homebuilders are urging the state government to speed up the approvals process for new public housing and provide much-needed work for the residential construction sector.

FLEDGLING advisory and investment outfit Sirona Capital has forged a partnership with embattled property developer Luke Saraceni after buying two of his properties for its real estate investment bu

ALTERNATIVE building material business MasterWall is tackling Western Australian’s preference for brick and tile homes with its polystyrene cladding technology.

WESTERN Australia’s homebuilders are urging the state government to speed up the approvals process for new public housing and provide much-needed work for the residential construction sector.

A MOVE to nationalise the licensing of residential real estate agents has drawn wide criticism from the local sector amid fears new, national regulations could water-down training and professional

PRIVATE property developers are making the most of Perth’s industrial land shortage to build the profits, along with much-needed facilities, for national and multi-national tenants keen to lift the

LANDCORP’S bid to build a network of industrial estates in regional Western Australia is premised on meeting industrial demand to support the state’s major mining and resource projects over the nex

A lack of well-serviced industrial land is hampering investment in WA.

Mining village service provider Sodexo Australia’s resource recovery program has won it the Waste Authority’s Waste Reduction & Resource Recovery Initiative award at the 2011 Waste Awards.

RODERICK and Kathleen McKay’s successful Supreme Court bid to increase the compensation payment for the mandatory acquisition of their Ravenswood farm by Main Roads and the WA Planning Commission h

WEST Perth renewable energy business New Energy Corporation plans to build a $180 million waste-to-energy plant in Port Hedland to service the region’s growing population and the major resource pro

AN underwater sediment scanner that eliminates the need for divers and provides real-time data for environmental monitoring has won engineering group WorleyParsons and the Port Hedland Port Authori

Developer Cedar Woods has called for greater state government investment in basic infrastructure to avoid projected shortfalls in new housing stock and sharp rises in property prices in the next ni

A SHORT supply of big retail spaces in the CBD is hampering plans by two of Europe’s top fashion chains to set up shop in Perth and reap the benefits of the state’s long-term economic outlook.

THE celebration of Western Australia’s top business-arts partnerships this week revealed the increasingly important contribution small and medium-sized businesses are making to the state’s creative

Perth’s pressure-cooker office market is driving the development of a number of smaller projects on the edge of the CBD as city tenants seek space to consolidate their operations and take advantage

PERTH’S listed property players are upbeat in their outlook for 2012 even if investor sentiment and an anaemic residential market continue to weigh on their performance.

VACANT city shopfronts are being transformed into artisan emporiums, artist studios and fashion galleries as CBD landlords embrace pop-up, or temporary, retail concepts to energise unleased space.

A WELL-KNOWN Perth family is understood to be the new owner of a significant swathe of Oxford Street after paying $9.5 million for four of Leederville’s most high-profile shopfronts.

PERTH Waterfront Taskforce chair Stuart Hicks is pitting his alliance-building skills against Fremantle’s thorniest planning issues after taking on the chair of the newly formed Fremantle Union.

LOCAL developers have cautiously welcomed a push to simplify the environmental approvals process for the Perth and Peel regions, so long as it doesn’t push up the cost of housing.

THE automated ticketing technology that promised so much and delivered so little for shareholders in listed company ERG has turned into a profitable business for Vix ERG and its backer, Duncan Savi

The vast distances that separate Perth from the rest of the world have proved a creative catalyst for fledgling technology business iWebGate.

AUSTRALIANS living outside of the major cites will have access to top medical specialists from their own community if Perth-based researcher and innovator Yogesan Kanagasingam can realise his visio

LUKE Saraceni is understood to be close to putting an administrator into his interest in the troubled Port Geographe project after listed property developer Axiom put its 40 per cent stake into adm

PERTH property syndicator Primewest is understood to be close to buying the former Clough building at 251 St Georges Terrace in a deal industry sources suggest could be worth at least $60 million.

The Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia is urging the resource sector’s army of fly-in, fly-out workers to accurately complete their census forms tomorrow to ensure the state’s fast