Property

Just a year ago, property owners with commercial office stock in Perth were basking in a sellers’ market, as investors clambered to take advantage of strong capital growth and rising rents.

Queensgate has been part of the fabric of Fremantle for nearly two decades, but its future as a cinema looks uncertain, with main tenant Hoyts seeking to renegotiate its lease and site owner, the City of Fremantle, investigating other uses for the buildin

Businesses could be faced with an added layer of environmental assessment when planning new developments and projects to take into consideration the effects of climate change.

Premier Alan Carpenter has left many people confused and frustrated by his blanket rejection of the ambitious island development proposal announced last week for North Fremantle.

Grains producers are in a strong position to expand production and boost productivity because of recent capital investments in land, plant and machinery, according to a new ABARE report.

The luxury retail strip of King Street is the subject of a new heritage study by the City of Perth, which could result in a number of areas within the city being named as conservation areas.

The rapid growth in Karratha's land and property prices in recent years has been well documented, but a $13 million price tag for a local caravan park has set a new benchmark.

Perth's popuation is likely to double and a series of infrastructure projects will transform the built environmnet in coming decades, but is there a broader vision for Perth? Emily Piesse reports.

With demand for boat pens in Perth at an all-time high, two of the state's biggest private marinas are up for sale.

Perth has the strongest industrial land market in the country, with rents surging 37.3 per cent in the March quarter, according to a report from CB Richard Ellis.

When Central Park was completed in 1992, Perth's commercial building industry operated under a substantially different planning code.

Perth was officially the worst performing major housing market in the past year, with national real estate figures showing the median price slumped 1.1 per cent to $460,000, the only market to record a fall in that period.

The State Government today announced it has finalised the acquisition of land for the new Perth Police Complex in Northbridge, with construction works scheduled to start in 2008-09.

With transit-oriented, high density development firmly on the state government’s agenda, the Town of Vincent is planning to rezone a large area of land along Newcastle Street to allow mixed-use development of five and six storeys in height.

Property developers in Western Australia may soon be required to pay local governments an amount of money towards community infrastructure determined by a set calculation, under a policy to be introduced by the state government.

Former Liberal senator Ian Campbell is an unlikely eco-warrior but his track record since leaving federal parliament last year definitely has a green tinge, albeit with a very corporate approach.

With an end to the nation’s wine glut in sight, winery owners in the South West are on the front foot, developing boutique accommodation on their properties to service the region’s short-stay holiday market.

The state government has introduced a new long-term rental model for the inner-city area, which aims to increase the supply of affordable rental accommodation in Perth.

Despite an ongoing shortage of car bays in the Perth CBD, national parking operator Wilson Parking is reducing its footprint in the city, having failed to secure approvals from the City of Perth.

Talk about trying to overfill an already overflowing ten-gallon bucket.

The State Government has announced that Expressions of Interest were being called from the private sector to perform vehicle examinations on behalf of the Department of Planning and Infrastructure.

In a positive sign for the battered listed property sector, Perth-based developer and investment player Aspen Group, has launched a new property fund, seeking to raise $40 million.

Perth based property and land developer Peet Ltd has announced that its civil contractor for its Innisfail Estate development has placed itself into voluntary administration.

The Federal Government will provide BEC Australia with $42 million over four years to fund one-stop small business advisory centres across Australia.

WA property developers may soon be required to pay local governments a set amount of money towards community infrastructure, under a policy to be introduced by the state government.

THE inspiration for Northerly Group Pty Ltd director Michael Lawson to found a company came from the vastness of outer space.

COMMERCIAL air travel within Western Australia is expected to contribute 804,500 tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere this year, or enough to fill 9,906 six-metre sea containers, according to a new study.

THE South West continues to dominate tourism development activity in Western Australia, with 32 accommodation projects in the planning stage and 24 currently in the construction phase.

KARRATHA’S property boom is set to go to another level with a nine-storey apartment block and a new resort proposed for the booming north-west town.

IT may sound incongruous, but a major shortage of sand in coastal towns of the South West region has the potential to curb residential development and force the cost of building even higher.

AGRICULTURAL powers — those self sufficient in food, fabric, and hydrocarbon production — were once unambiguously regarded as strategic powers.

ADELAIDE House, built in the 1880s, is about to join a growing list of new office towers in the eastern end of the city, with a $30 million development application for the site currently lodged with the City of Perth.