ALTERNATIVE building material business MasterWall is tackling Western Australian's preference for brick and tile homes with its polystyrene cladding technology.
AFTER a period of post-GFC consolidation, Perth's top real estate agents are looking to expand their footprint in the local market when positive sentiment returns across the board.
BLACKBURNE Property Group managing director Paul Blackburne has completely restructured his business since he won a WA Business News 40under40 award in 2005.
Keen demand for commercial space in central Perth is driving a surge in office redesign and fit-out work, attracting new players to the Western Australian market and creating opportunities for esta
A MOVE to nationalise the licensing of residential real estate agents has drawn wide criticism from the local sector amid fears new, national regulations could water-down training and professional
The evolution of Northbridge has led to a changing of the guard when it comes to the focal point of the inner-city entertainment neighbourhood, according to local property experts.
Perth's residential property market remains in the doldrums as sellers start to pull their properties off the market, the median house price continues to decline and an increasing number OF people
RODERICK and Kathleen McKay's successful Supreme Court bid to increase the compensation payment for the mandatory acquisition of their Ravenswood farm by Main Roads and the WA Planning Commission h
Building and construction company Northerly Group has been appointed to develop a $12.3 million housing project for the City of Perth, in Goderich Street East Perth.
WESTERN Australian projects have fared poorly in total funding from the latest round of the federal government's Green Building Fund, announced last month.
Developer Cedar Woods has called for greater state government investment in basic infrastructure to avoid projected shortfalls in new housing stock and sharp rises in property prices in the next ni
A SHORT supply of big retail spaces in the CBD is hampering plans by two of Europe's top fashion chains to set up shop in Perth and reap the benefits of the state's long-term economic outlook.
Perth's pressure-cooker office market is driving the development of a number of smaller projects on the edge of the CBD as city tenants seek space to consolidate their operations and take advantage
PERTH'S listed property players are upbeat in their outlook for 2012 even if investor sentiment and an anaemic residential market continue to weigh on their performance.
A WELL-KNOWN Perth family is understood to be the new owner of a significant swathe of Oxford Street after paying $9.5 million for four of Leederville's most high-profile shopfronts.
PERTH Waterfront Taskforce chair Stuart Hicks is pitting his alliance-building skills against Fremantle's thorniest planning issues after taking on the chair of the newly formed Fremantle Union.
LOCAL developers have cautiously welcomed a push to simplify the environmental approvals process for the Perth and Peel regions, so long as it doesn't push up the cost of housing.
THE City of Perth has unveiled a plan to revitalise the Gasworks Building and its surrounding precinct on Wellington Street, with the creation of an artistic hub for the fashion and photographic in
Planning Minister John Day says the state government is considering mandating more local government involvement in its plan to establish a redevelopment authority to oversee the entire metropolitan
DEVELOPERS along the Scarborough beachfront received a bit of good news last week when the City of Stirling gave the green light to a $53 million revamp of the precinct.
LUKE Saraceni is understood to be close to putting an administrator into his interest in the troubled Port Geographe project after listed property developer Axiom put its 40 per cent stake into adm
PERTH property syndicator Primewest is understood to be close to buying the former Clough building at 251 St Georges Terrace in a deal industry sources suggest could be worth at least $60 million.
FIGURES released this week have confirmed the continuing poor performance of the Western Australian housing sector, with Perth recording the largest median price falls of any capital city during th
AFTER years of dabbling with its own online real estate offers, The West Australian newspaper has reached an agreement with the Real Estate Institute of Western Australia to use its popular search
AFTER a decade in Dubai, Woods Bagot architect Mark Mitcheson-Low has moved back to Perth with big ambitions for the city he sees as the regional growth hub of Australia.
The Australian Building and Construction Commission has taken court action against Perth company Inner Strength Steel Fixing and its director, Vishuddha Shane Sacha, over allegations they engaged i
THE City of Fremantle has acknowledged that redeveloping a series of eyesores in its dilapidated east end is key to any plan to revitalise the port city's economy.
THE threat of store closures at major chain operator Premier Retail has underscored the difficult trading conditions for the sector, with Western Australia's resources industry failing to provide t
THE state government has short-listed three companies to potentially partner with its agency LandCorp in the development of Eglinton in Perth's northern coastal development corridor.
SUBIACO-BASED engineering consultancy firm Pritchard Francis has appointed land development experts Cory Johnson and Phillip Patterson as part of the expansion of its civil engineering practice.
