Dan Wilkie rejoined the Business News editorial team as Associate Editor in late 2018, after having spent the previous 18 months launching the now-defunct Australia China Business Review as founding editor-in-chief. While specialising in commercial and residential property writing, Dan also wrote across industries and assisted editor Mark Beyer in planning and producing Business News' daily emails, fortnightly magazine and website publishing. Dan is a graduate of Curtin University.
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.
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.
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.
The influence of Adrian Fini’s hospitality dream team was celebrated last night, with the two latest ventures by the group that founded Little Creatures Brewing among the highlights at the Australian Hotels Association’s 2016 accommodation awards.
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.
LWP Property Group has launched two new land estates in Perth’s southern suburbs, shrugging off slowing market conditions that are forcing other developers to look interstate.
A for sale sign has gone up at the flagship project at Elizabeth Quay, with developer Far East Consortium putting its Ritz-Carlton hotel on the block just one week after Premier Colin Barnett turned the first sod on the luxury development.
Advocates for the abolition of Western Australia’s development assessment panels took a hit yesterday, after the WA Local Government Association knocked back two motions that called for the scrappi
Perth’s office vacancy rate has risen to nearly 22 per cent, but the Property Council of Australia says that figure could mark an end to commercial landlords' pain due to the supply cycle having peaked.
A new food and beverage precinct will open early next year on St Georges Terrace, with Mirvac Group today unveiling its vision for a redeveloped Allendale Square.
An increase in office vacancies in Perth’s CBD has shifted the market dynamic clearly in favour of tenants, but despite a historically high level of empty floors, there is little choice for companies that need a lot of space.
Perth’s commercial property sector is reeling from the simultaneous downturn in iron ore and oil and gas, but the WA capital is not alone among global resources hubs.
Apartments developer Finbar Group has reached an agreement to buy LandCorp's last available plot of land in the Springs redevelopment precinct in a deal worth $6.4 million, but has not yet specified when it will proceed with the development.
Liquidators have been appointed to Crawford Property Group, with the firm becoming the second Pilbara-focused real estate player to run into strife in 2016.
Construction of some of Perth’s tallest buildings was never part of the City of South Perth’s plan to revitalise the suburb, according to Mayor Sue Doherty.
Resorts and hotels operator Crown Resorts has given the state’s hospitality sector a handy fillip, launching a recruitment drive for more than 500 employees to run the luxury Crown Towers property
Commercial landlords in West Perth are coming under increasing pressure to retain tenants, as the near-city suburb’s office vacancy rate hits all-time highs.
A new dining and entertainment precinct will open late next year in the northern suburbs, featuring up to 10 new restaurants and an eight-screen cinema complex.
Perth’s residential property market may be enveloped in a cloud of doom and gloom, but the Real Estate Institute of Western Australia has released a list of eight suburbs across the city that recor
Global accounting giant KPMG and insurance group CGU have joined a host of firms searching through Perth’s 400,000-plus square metres of vacant office space for new homes.