Gary Kleyn

PROFESSIONAL organisations preventing their members from competing against each other risk running foul of the Trade Practices Act.

THE rise in housing sales and building resulting from the GST is approaching a peak says the Real Estate Institute of WA economist Lino Iacomella.

A total of $18.6 million is earmarked for three road and bypass projects programmed for Busselton in the South West.

THE long awaited redevelopment of Dunlop House is about to commence with the Perth City Council giving approval for a 246 room hotel on the site.

RETAILERS in Bunbury are showing their optimism about the future in the city.

LANDCORP, on behalf of the Mid West Development Commission, is calling for tenders for the sale of a hotel-leisure development site in the Batavia Coast Marina development.

Police and Nurses Credit Society’s Money-box is popping up across the metropolitan area.

SOME 400 building approvals were issued in the South West during August, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics figures.

ELECTRONIC commerce for small business is high on the agenda.Deputy Premier Hendy Cowan told guests at the recent E-Commerce Strategies for Business in the Wired World that getting WA online was an important issue for the government

AUSTRADE is holding the third of its LinkWest ’99 South Asia national seminar series at the Duxton Hotel on 25 amd 26 October.

SOUTH West entrepreneur of the year and state contender Kevin Coote has all the hallmarks of success, be it in business, sport or community work.

LIFESTYLE changes are persuading more families to build a new home rather than buy an established home says Commodore Homes general manager Anthony Kinder.

THE former Busselton Primary School site has been sold to independent grocery chain Foodland Associated Limited for $6 million.

A COMBINATION of the Ralph report and GST may well see a rush of retirements prior to 30 June, as combined with the electronic age it all gets too hard says property valuation firm Herron Todd White chairman Kerry Herron.

A MAJOR development set to double the size of Australind, just north of Bunbury, is currently before the Harvey Shire.

WA AGAIN recorded the highest rate of vehicle ownership in Australia – 725 vehicles per 1,000 people for the year to October 1998 – compared with an Australia-wide figure of 508 vehicles per 1,000 people.

THE Australian building industry will enter a twelve month slump in 2000/01 with activity falling by 17 per cent, says the major annual building industry study by BIS Shrapnel.

WEST Perth was once ‘the’ place to live in Perth.During the 1980s many people moved out of Perth and the old houses became offices and flats.

A SIGNIFICANT proportion of Australians are relying too heavily on superannuation to tide them over when they stop working, a survey has found.

PEDESTRIAN traffic is down 6.4 per cent in the city arcades according to a recent survey by the Real Estate Institute of WA.

JOHN Ralph’s Review of Business Taxation has delivered big and will change the face of the income tax system forever, according to specialist tax advisers Greenwoods & Freehills and national law firm Freehill Hollingdale & Page.

INVESTORS thinking of sinking money into the establishment of vineyards may find better investment opportunities elsewhere says the Australian Securities and Investment Commission.

THE modest old folks’ home of the past has today been replaced by expansive resort-style facilities as retirees live longer and demand more from their post-work lifestyle.

THREE WA companies have shared the honours in this year’s Gold Gecko Awards.

THE former home of Amway Australia in Balcatta recently sold for $1.5 million.

PEOPLE pushing their own agenda by purchasing shares, be it environmental or other issues, will be targeted if new reforms currently under discussion are implemented by government.

State public housing tenants living in prime locations in West Perth will not be pushed aside to make way for the wealthy, the Ministry of Housing has confirmed.

COMMERCIAL houseboats on the Swan River may soon be a reality. WA-based Hydrocats has been invited to lodge an application with the Swan River Trust to conduct a five-year trial of the concept.

A NEW luxury development in East Perth has been placed on the market by realtors Time Conti Sheffield.

WEST Perth is often regarded as the most viable alternative to the Central Business District for a office location.

The Australian dollar is trading at a 4.3 per cent discount in relation to the US dollar, according to Westpac.

JUST minutes from Mandurah is the new Port Bouvard development, nestled between the Indian Ocean, Peel Inlet, Harvey Estuary and the Dawesville Channel.