Property

The Masters Builders Association WA branch has expressed concern at what it claims is an unfair and confusing situation involving insulation products in the State’s building sector.

A CLEAN-UP of the Leighton marshalling yards will begin next month ahead of the Leighton foreshore development.

WHILE a cooling residential property sector may have made most of the headlines in recent months, the big news for market watchers has been in the commercial property sector.

Royalbrook, 130 Royal Street East Perth (1)

The Subiaco Redevelopment Authority’s (SRA) support of social and economic diversity has found expression with the news that Edge Employment Solutions is to establish a new headquarters in Subi Centro.

National Mutual Building, 88 Colin Street West Perth (1)

Construction will get under way later this month on the $125 million transformation of the Midland Gate Shopping Centre.

Perth’s CBD has experienced the highest growth in demand for office space of any capital city since July 1995, according to the Property Council of Australia’s Office Market Report for July 1 2004.

Honeywell Building, 176 Burswood Road, Burswood (1)

Armadale is gearing up for significant development more than a decade after the city was named as one of the Perth metropolitan region’s eight strategic regional centres.

Forrest Centre, 221 St Georges Tce Perth

The National Bank is on the lookout for new headquarters in Perth, newly appointed general manager of business and financial services WA, Geoff Greer, has told WA Business Ne

Industry players are concerned at the lack of progress in efforts to tighten controls over strata management.

The first stage of an $11 million refurbishment was recently completed at Broome’s Cable Beach Club Resort.

18 Stirling Highway Nedlands (1)

As the recipient of this year’s Master Builders Award for excellence in construction Gavin Construction is in good company, with Multiplex, BGC, and Thiess Contractors among previous winners.

A supreme Court appeals bench has sent a case involving Mt Lawley Pty Ltd and the Western Australian Planning Commission (WAPC) back for retrial.

  In its occasional look at commercial property precincts, WA Business News this week gives an overview of the BankWest Tower.

After a partnership of 15 years, Stephen Reiffer and Paul Conti have restructured real estate agency Time Conti Sheffield into three separate businesses to allow for more specialised service and interests.

8 The Esplanade Perth

Serviced office providers are being under-utilised in the Australian market, according to some in the industry, with much of that due to a misunderstanding of what the service entails.

Theft and vandalism on new home sites across Australia cost the housing industry more than $8 million a year.

Zorzi Select, the Zorzi Group’s new boutique-focused subsidiary, will undertake its maiden project with the refurbishment of the three-storey former Westpac offices on the corner of Rockeby and Hamersley roads in Subiaco.

Despite the continued strength of the construction industry, across-the-board cost increases in the building industry are putting pressure on many builders’ bottom line.

 190 St Georges Terrace Perth

Jacqui Williams faced a challenging brief when she was nominated project manager to co-ordinate the design of a new office for the Interiors Australia Group.

LEASING OPPORTUNITIES 108 Stirling Street Perth

The Construction Contracts Bill, expected to become law in September, could effect significant change to the way industry deals with payment structures in construction contracts, and provide for the rapid resolution of payment disputes through adjudicatio