Tracey Cook

BUSINESSES of all persuasions often take the opportunity to recreate or smarten-up their image when relocating pre-mises. Freehills is one business to make great use of its recent move to QV1, creating a statement with its office fit-out.

LAND tax and other increasing property charges are shaping up to become one of the big-ticket items on the Western Australian Government election agenda in 2005.

 BLOATED with superannuation money, listed property trusts are leading the pack in shopping centre acquisition.

PROPERTY developer Finbar International is planning to build an 18-storey residential tower and 80 serviced apartments at 132 Terrace Road opposite Langley Park.

THE group behind the $35 million Kelmscott Central Shopping Centre redevelopment project has won the first round in its appeal against the City of Armadale and the WA Planning Commission.

LANDMARK hotel The Red Castle Motor Hotel in Rivervale will be transformed into a 55-apartment residential development.

WITH retirement providing the long-awaited chance to fulfil dreams of travel and leisure, ageing baby boomers are expected to be the darlings of the travel industry.

IT’S estimated that between $8 billion and $19 billion will be required until 2021 to build sufficient aged-care housing for Australia’s ageing population.

THE City of Melville has granted approval for Mirvac Fini’s $40 million development along the Canning River in Mount Pleasant.

NEARLY five years since its inception, construction may soon commence on the $25 million Riverside Pier Hotel development, complete with a new contemporary design.

THE majority of industry analysts in Perth have diagnosed a ‘lacklustre’ short-term outlook for commercial office development in the CBD.

TAKING a stand against the State Government’s successive land tax hikes, Perth property group Mair & Co chairman John Mair is embarking on an advertising campaign to rally the industry into action.

THE Australian Bureau of Statistics defines baby boomers as Australian residents born between 1946 and 1965.

AN ageing population is a phenomenon common to many of the world’s developed countries.

THE long derelict Oakleigh building at 22 St Georges Terrace, Perth may soon have a second chance at being reborn as a residential tower. Condor Projects, the developers of Manhattan Towers, are understood to have the site under conditional contract.

WITH the level of large-scale residential development increasing in both the southern and northern corridors, local governments are making moves to prohibit bulk earthworks in subdivisions during the summer months to control dust pollution.

Tracey Cook this week meets the new president of the Property Council of WA and finds out how the organisation hopes to tackle the problems faced by property owners and developers.

JBWERE has moved its offices into the BankWest tower after 28 years next door in the AMP building BankWest secured the wealth management firm on an eight-year lease on level 44 of the office tower and JBWere relocated this week.

SINCE first establishing their joint venture partnership five years ago, Home Building Society and Satterley Property Group have been developing some of the largest and most succe

A WARNING from the Economist magazine and the International Monetary Fund about an imminent end to the housing boom in OECD countries is bad news for many low-growth economies.

NEARLY 20-years-old, the City of Perth City Planning Scheme is outdated, legally complex and causing problems for both council and the development industry.

THE sheer amount of property development occurring around Mandurah is astonishing. Just a casual drive around the city reveals a plethora of construction sites, giving a visual gauge of how much interest there is in this coastal city.

APPLAUDED for its strong focus on public open space and the positive effect it has had on local development, Landcorp’s development of Mandurah Ocean Marina has been met with approval across local government, the property industry, local business and comm

HARVEY Norman and Pivot Group have bought the first land parcel in the Midland Redevelopment Authority area.

WHILE the growth of Mandurah is good news for many, such rapid growth comes with challenges that, unless carefully managed, can turn a region’s success story into a disaster.

MANDURAH’S close proximity to Perth is proving to be attractive to many working people who are choosing to live in the regional city and commute to Perth. Many people who might have looked to buy in the northern coastal suburbs of Perth, such as Burns Be

ONCE regarded as a sleepy fishing hamlet, Mandurah has come of age and is charging ahead to become a regional city of note. As a city, it has capitalised on its unique natural environment.

WHILE government departments, resource companies and several mid-sized professional services firms currently look for new space, tenants are in no mood to rush and as a result Perth’s CBD leasing market is moving at a slow pace.

BABY boomers are leading the charge out of the suburbs looking for lifestyle change and with another two-thirds of the baby boomers still to push past 48, lifestyle property development is the industry to be in.

WITH less than three weeks to the implementation of the Western Australian Government’s energy efficiency housing rating scheme on July 1 the construction industry is bracing itself for significant delays in building application approvals.

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