Dan Wilkie

SPECIAL REPORT: Western Australian breweries’ continued success is building on a rich brewing pedigree.

SPECIAL REPORT: There’s a definite case of old school meets new school going on in the boutique brewing set, with aluminium cans increasingly the container of choice among the craft beer crowd.

SPECIAL REPORT: WA brewers are finding that it’s better for the industry if they work together.

CBD landlords are continuing to invest in their assets to ensure they remain relevant in an increasingly competitive office market.

There are glimmers of hope emerging for beleaguered apartment developers, despite slugglish sales across Perth.

Buyers’ agency and developer Momentum Wealth has braved Perth’s patchy apartments market with a new syndicate, raising $6.5 million from investors for a 40-dwelling project in Highgate.

Top WA land survey firm MNG is branching out to explore opportunities in the greenfields land development market on the east coast.

BGC has relinquished its spot as Australia’s most prolific home builder, but it is still the biggest builder in Western Australia, as the downturn in housing construction continues to be felt.

A new-format international golf tournament will make its debut in Western Australia early next year, as the state government looks to capitalise on rising interstate tourism interest.

Osborne Park-based builder Quattro Homes has been placed into administration, the fourth residential builder in Western Australia to collapse in the past three months.

Land developers are predicting further pain as finance changes put a damper on the industry.

Consulting and advisory group Urbis is preparing to add property valuation to its suite of services, following its move to customised new premises at The Quadrant on William Street.

In this Business News podcast Mark Pownall and Dan Wilkie discuss property planning, builders fraud, Fastbrick Robotics and fashion.

Work is expected to start later this year on Western Australia's first dedicated health and knowledge precinct in Murdoch, with developers sought to deliver up to 400 homes, 33,000 square metres of office space and more than 80 short-stay apartments.

A new group of property professionals promises to bring balance to Perth’s debate over density.

Tourists have been given more incentive to hang up the car keys and stay in town when visiting Margaret River. 

The bulk of Perth’s local governments are missing the mark on long-term strategic planning, according to a new Property Council report into the sector.

Six years of surveys, community consultation and planning have come to naught in the Town of Cambridge, after Planning Minister Donna Faragher rejected proposed changes to the area’s town planning

Backpackers are skipping Western Australia and heading to other states, with a big fall in the number of working holidaymakers contributing to disappointing international tourism statistics release

Two Perth-based builders have been denied registration and another has been fined, in a busy week for Western Australia’s Building Commission.

A new train station at Aubin Grove has been the catalyst behind an evolution of product from residential land developer Richard Noble & Company.

Gage Roads Brewing Company will tap the market for $10.1 million to buy back Woolworths’ stake in the Palmyra-based brewer, capping off a busy 12 months where it created Australia’s best beer while also returning to profitability.

A new player is applying an international model to win work in the highly competitive commercial construction sector.

Suburban shopping centres are becoming the most sought-after asset class in property.

Perth’s big retail centres are evolving to become much more than just a collection of shops.

More than 80 per cent of houses sold in Perth in the year to the end of June went for $400,000 or more, the latest evidence of the difficulties faced by low income earners seeking to own a home.

After a quarter of a century, one of Perth’s top planning firms is going back to its roots.

LandCorp is seeking a development partner for its latest urban infill project, Parkside Walk in Jolimont.

Satterley Property Group has made its second Victorian acquisition in the past three months, acquiring a 68-hectare residential estate in Melbourne’s Donnybrook for $34 million.

Pilbara-focused developer Veronica Macpherson has been blocked from leaving the country by the corporate regulator and her Macro Realty Developments business has been ordered to stop providing financial advice.

Architect Sam Klopper has shrugged off community consternation over an apartment project on Kennedy Street in Maylands, instead pitching the development as a model for future urban infill.

Slowing residential construction has claimed more scalps, with the flow-on effects likely to have negative repercussions for the affordability of new housing.