THE future of the mining sector – dependent on exploration to maintain current production levels – looks uncertain, with figures re-leased by the Australian Bureau of Statistics indicating a 21 per cent drop in exploration during the March quarter.
WESTERN Power and new Woodside offshoot Metasource have become the founding members of a world’s first renewable energy market, which will allow trade in credits for the use of alternative energy sources.
WA PLANTATION manager Integrated Tree Cropping claims to have been the first to get its prospectuses through under the Australian Securities and Investments Commision’s new guidelines.
FAMILY businesses are often by their very nature private affairs. While often rumours surround these businesses, rarely do the real facts come out into the open for all to see.
JUST how much the demand has dropped for new houses has come to light with the release of the Land Supply Survey by the Urban Development Institute of Australia.
PROPERTY developers face tougher times finding high net worth investors for projects without offering a prospectus following changes to the Corporations Law’s so called Gold Card exemptions.
WESFARMERS CEO Michael Chaney is open to the idea of expanding the rural group’s finan-cial services to providing more comprehensive advisory and branch banking services.
HOUSE prices in Australia rose 2.4 per cent between September 2000 and December, while in WA house prices rose 2.1 per cent during the quarter bringing prices up 6.1 per cent over the year.
THE city community should be acc-essible for people and families of all income groups, thereby contributing to a city that is socially inclusive and culturally diverse, according to City Housing executive officer Hans Gerritsen.
LICENSED Post office franchises have increased in popularity over the past few years, with many business brokers pushing the virtue of the stores to their clients.
GOOD opportunities exist for buyers in the inner city housing market, particularly in the upper echelons, according to those watching the industry closely.
WHILE the building industry has been doing it tough since the introduction of the GST, the same cannot be said for the caravan industry, with sales forecast to grow by about 12 per cent over the year to June.
THE outlook for the housing industry remains very bleak and the recent increase in approvals should not be interpreted as a recovery, says BIS Shrapnel in its latest Building Industry Prospects.
A SURVEY of Perth home prices during the last financial year by the Real Estate Institute of Australia shows that the inner city suburbs achieved the highest growth figures in the Perth metropolitan area and even outperformed inner city Sydney and Mel
THE East Perth renewal project is an excellent example of good urban design, according to a world-renowned urban design expert who was in Perth last week.
AN INNOVATIVE marketing ploy involving homing pigeons is being used to promote the $20 million Miami development in Bellevue Terrace adjoining Kings Park in West Perth.
PERTH-based WRF Securities Limited is set to further increase its flow of new investment projects with the launch of a new property division alongside its existing agribusiness investment and gold mining divisions.
AMERICAN dining chain Tricon Restaurants International is planning to launch Taco Bells in WA, targeting a number of key sites for the Mexican-themed fast-food chain.
INNER suburban shopping centres are dying and leaving in their wake vandalised, crime-riddled skeletons, which, in turn, have a negative effect on the surrounding suburb.
THE United Group, which has suffered in the hands of its shareholders over the past year, has announced a further restructuring of the company with three new divisions being created from the scraps.
THE growing trend towards mega shopping centres in Perth is also leading to a major shift in housing demand, according to Geoff Baldwin Team managing director Geoff Baldwin.
WESTFIELD shopping centres can be likened to an octopus with hundred of tentacles ensnaring its prey and leaving other smaller centres for dead, according to Westfield State shopping centre manager Paul Lopez.
DESPITE a weaker world economic outlook, Australia’s commodity exports are expected to reach a record $89 million in 2001-02, according to the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics executive director Brian Fisher.
CEDARWOODS has recorded an 86 per cent fall in operating profit to $0.63 million for the half year ended December 31, on sales of $6.2 million – 56 per cent lower than the corresponding period in 1999.
THE eastern suburbs has become a property classified advertising battleground with two separate publications being launched within weeks of each other.
THE economy hit a brick wall when the GST was introduced but looks set to improve by the end of the calendar year, according to Colonial First State Investment markets research head Hans Kunnen.
VICTORIA Park looks set to get its first high-rise development with the Town of Victoria Park passing a 12-storey $70 million development on the Sands & MacDougall site after months of controversy which polarised the local community.
