Dan Wilkie

The state government’s tight 2014 budget and widespread job cuts in the resources sector have put the clamps on positive sentiment in the property sector, according to the Property Council of Australia.

The state’s biggest home builders are innovating to tackle Perth’s housing affordability issues, but they say alternative construction methods are only part of the solution.

Woodside Petroleum has confirmed it will be the anchor tenant at Capital Square, signing a memorandum of understanding with the site’s developer, AAIG.

Georgiou Group has announced a multi-million dollar joint venture with indigenous contractor Gumala, to provide de-watering services at Fortescue Metals Group's Christmas Creek mine in the Pilbara.

The Spain-based founders of Cafe del Mar say they are the only entity authorised to use the trademark worldwide, despite a venue opening in Sydney last year and plans advancing for an expansion to Western Australia.

Overseas and interstate retailers are lining up to be part of an emerging new precinct in the Perth CBD.

Electronic media has been the key behind the success of one of Perth’s fastest-growing real estate agencies.

Rising Stars finalist Monford Group says client satisfaction has been the key to its rapid growth.

The Rising Stars People’s Choice winner has found success by doing things differently.

FEATURE: Emergency management and response firm Executive Risk Solutions has been named the Business News Rising Stars top award winner for 2014.

Perth-based Safety Medical Products is focusing its activities back in the medical sphere, signing an agreement to acquire an unlisted 3D printing company six months after backing out of a deal to purchase a gold exploration project in Brazil.

Plans to open a Café Del Mar restaurant in Western Australia will not be derailed by a legal fight over who owns the trademark, according to the managing director of the Australian arm of the music-themed eatery.

Retail property in Subiaco is on the downswing, but the looming loss of football may not necessarily be the death-knell for Rokeby Road’s retail strip.

National development group Mirvac has been appointed to build the latest apartment projects at LandCorp’s Claremont on the Park.

Government policy is forcing a shift in thinking for shopping centre developers.

Construction of the $1.2 billion Perth Children’s Hospital in Nedlands has passed a significant milestone, with the final concrete for the building poured.

Developers are getting on board with the City of Melville’s vision for a redeveloped Canning Bridge precinct, ahead of changes to the area’s planning scheme expected to be finalised later this year.

Developer Sirona Capital’s mooted $30 million, 73-room Quest apartment hotel in the west end of Fremantle is the latest in more than $100 million worth of short-stay accommodation projects being planned for the port city.

Major redevelopment projects are transforming Perth’s CBD, but only one precinct seems to be attracting anchor tenants.

A hospitality industry veteran has brought a bit of LA glitz to Perth’s entertainment scene.

Collapsed engineering firm Forge Group’s old premises in West Perth have firmed as a likely landing spot for automotive parts buying group Capricorn Society, which is looking to consolidate its office requirements into one location.

The City of Fremantle’s push to revitalise its flagging retail scene is bearing fruit, with the first two recipients of the city’s new business-attraction incentive scheme set to take on long-term leases.

A Morley-based importer has enjoyed rapid growth on the back of consumers’ shift towards craft-brewed beer, but it hasn’t always been smooth sailing.

St Andrew’s Church on St Georges Terrace will remain closed for the foreseeable future due to structural issues, unless the Uniting Church can secure an anchor tenant for a planned 22-storey office tower.

Perth's industrial land sector is likely to experience a short-term supply shortage, with land values the most expensive in the nation and high construction costs affecting developers’ ability to create new facilities.

The proposed $750 million redevelopment of Garden City Booragoon is the latest project in a booming retail construction sector.

Western Australia’s residential construction sector is continuing to exhibit rapid growth, with the state government’s official forecaster tipping the highest level of activity in more than two decades.

Accounting giant EY is understood to be close to finalising negotiations on a new lease at the six-storey EY Building on Mounts Bay Road, after coming up empty in its search for a new home.

SPECIAL REPORT: Concerns have been raised over the sustainability of Perth’s apartment construction boom, with prominent industry players suggesting Rivervale in particular is in danger of oversupply.

SPECIAL REPORT: Reform of the approvals process is cited as the biggest challenge for Perth’s residential development sector.

The government appears to have reacted to pre-budget industry fears by declaring only modest cuts to new housing market entrants' stamp duty concessions, however it still earned the wrath of some industry players.

Midland's goal to become a commercial hub is quietly being realised, 14 years after the state government put the wheels in motion on one of Perth’s largest urban redevelopment projects.