Mark Beyer

THREE major shopping centre expansion projects are set to proceed in Perth during the next year, following AMP Capital’s move to full ownership of Garden City in Booragoon.

The state government is pressing ahead with plans for a gas pipeline to Albany, despite the project losing its largest potential customer and facing projected operating losses.

Indian company Lanco Infratech has released details of the planned expansion of its Griffin Coal business, in which it will invest an estimated $1.2 billion to underpin annual exports of 12 million

Engineering and construction contractor Forge Group has outlined a new divisional structure to support a planned diversification of its business into the process infrastructure and oil & gas se

The CCI and other business groups have given the state and federal governments a clear agenda for future policy reform.

The major accounting practices are leading the way in employment growth, which is up almost a third since 2010.

In what must rate as one of the more embarrassing oversights in WA business, engineering contractor Forge Group has admitted that it forgot about one of its directors when it prepared this year’s n

Prominent Perth lawyer Leigh Warnick has announced plans to join the independent Bar, bringing to an end his 18-month foray with local firm Lavan Legal.

Automotive Holdings Group’s remuneration report should be read by all company directors wanting to learn about best practice.

ASK the average Western Australian to name the state’s major petroleum export and most would surely answer liquefied natural gas.

THE private sector is set to play an increasingly major role in providing traditional public infrastructure in Western Australia after the state government named a preferred consortium for the desi

THE WA Farmers Federation and grain handler CBH Group have welcomed a state government decision to keep open the ‘tier 3’ rail lines in the Wheatbelt, but the farm lobby group has warned the fight

THE long-running debate over domestic gas reservations in Western Australia shows no sign of easing, with two Perth business leaders taking opposite sides last week.

The private sector is set to play a bigger role in providing traditional public infrastructure in Western Australia after the state government named a preferred consortium for the design, construct

Six weeks after announcing a dramatic slowdown in its growth plans, iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group says its stalled Kings project could resume later this year and be in production as early a

The WA business sector has long called for a state infrastructure strategy; NSW has shown how it can be achieved.

FROM Subiaco in the west to Booragoon in the south and Innaloo in the north, more than a dozen mid-sized office developments are either under way or at an advanced stage of planning around Perth.

THE industrial land market in Western Australia has been characterised by consistently strong demand for most of the past decade, which has been good news for investors and developers who bought la

NICK Di Latte is under no illusions about where Diploma Group needs to focus its attention.

PERTH company Finbar has just 13 head office staff yet it is working on property developments worth nearly $1.5 billion.

MOST apartment developers have experienced a lean period since the GFC, with investors and banks both wary of putting money into new projects.

A wide range of commercial property developers, from multinationals to church groups, are set to drive future activity in the sector.

Four years on from the collapse of Lehman Bros, it is disturbing to realise the finance sector has reverted to tight credit conditions akin to the GFC.

THE international merger of law firms Freehills and Herbert Smith is turning out to be more simple, according to joint chief executive Gavin Bell.

The state government has announced $328 million in spending cuts and foreshadowed further savings later this year to try and protect its budget surplus from the impact of falling mining royalties.

Two major office towers in central Perth show that modern developments can co-exist with, and even enhance, the value of heritage properties.

Land developer Avon Estates has launched its first major industrial development, with land at its Intersect 2020 estate near Pinjarra coming on to the market this month.

The housing construction industry in Western Australia hit decade-low activity levels last financial year, yet there is uncertainty about whether the traditional bounce will occur.

IF there is one subject that unifies people across the property sector it is concern with the lending policies of the banks, which have been criticised for being overly strict and not really unders

IT’S slow, it’s uncertain and it’s costly. That’s how property industry players describe the processes for gaining approvals for new developments.

Nationals MP Tony Crook has decided to support the Labor government's planned deregulation of wheat exports, leaving the Liberal Party's federal MPs in the unusual and embarrassing position of oppo

Energy giant ConocoPhillips coud become the second company, after Japan's Inpex, to transport gas from a field off the Western Australian coast to an LNG processing plant at Darwin.