Property

THE housing and renovation industry accounted for over one third of Australia’s economic growth in 2002.

SPURRED on by the poor performance of the stock market, low interest rates and government incentives, investors have been spending up big on property.

MOST of Perth’s top real estate agents held their ground in the WA Business News Book of Lists 2003, with little change recorded among the top 20 agents from the previous year.

EAST Perth Redevelopment Authority has sold three lots in The Village Northbridge precinct for a total of more than $1.45 million.

PROPERTY owners and tenants are grappling with the costs of implementing increased security amid current global tensions and local crime patterns.

THE creation of a vibrant village atmosphere is the impetus behind the waterfront piazza-style development for Port Bouvard’s Northport precinct approved last year.

AUSTRALIA’S architectural firms are earning about 30 per cent of their annual turnover in export dollars, according to a national survey conducted by the Royal Australian Institute of Architects.

DELAYS in progress on the proposed $100 million expansion of the Midland Gate Shopping Centre appear to be nearing an end with new owners, Gandel Retail Management, making moves t

THREE years after its inception the Midland Redevelopment Authority will release its first parcels of land.

COSTING is a delicate subject in a marketplace as fiercely competitive as the Perth architectural sector.

INTERIOR designers increasingly are being seen as the knights in shining armour for corporate managers juggling technological change and staff satisfaction, whi

WITH building approvals for private sector houses and total dwelling units falling for the past four months, all indications suggest that WA’s housing boom is on the wane.

PERTH’S Piccadilly Theatre and Arcade and Rechabites Hall have been permanently listed on the State Government’s Register of Heritage Places.

PLANNING and Infrastructure Minister Alannah MacTiernan has released for public comment a public environmental review (PER) of a proposal to develop a 120 hecta

PERTH’S major commercial properties have diverted a critical portion of their lease exposure threat by pushing out lease renewal terms to 10 years, further closing the window of opportunity for Perth’s three major commercial development proposals.

EAST Perth Redevelopment Authority will auction five lots in The Village Northbridge development on February 26.

In part three in the series on architects and interior designers, Tracey Cook looks at the architectural firms behind the State’s big projects.

A LOOK at the history of Perth’s top architectural sector reveals a past full of expansion and cannibalistic mergers.

PERTH food supply group Sealanes has engaged the local community in its efforts to ease the passage of a proposed 25,000 square metre development in South Fremantle.

THE Town of Victoria Park has thought outside the circle in its efforts to find a manager for the Swan Portland site.

THERE was limited but steady growth for Perth’s architectural firms last year as the five largest names continued to dominate the top end of the market.

LOCAL developers are becoming increasingly concerned about the State’s planning system, which they claim is too costly and lacking experienced planners. At the heart of the matter are inconsistencies across the State’s local councils.

A PROPOSAL for an 86-room floating hotel at Barrack Square has been given conditional approval by the City of Perth Council. The $25 million development proposal, put forward by local operation PH3 Property Group, will now go before the Swan Rive

THE absence of regulation in the strata management industry has provoked concern about this $28.5 billion sector of the residential property market. The chairman of a Legislative Assembly inquiry into the strata management industry in WA, Member

A COMPANY that rose from the ashes of the failed Geraldton Building Company has won nearly $1.6 million in WA Government contracts in the year since the collapse of Mid West’s biggest construction firm.The company, Geraldton Building Services and Cab...

AN application to convert 153 units in the Paragon CBD Apartments development in the city to serviced apartments has been rejected by the City of Perth.

ASSET Special Projects and FDPSavills have been appointed joint agents to market the St Thomas Square subdivision in Subiaco.The urban infill development opposite Kings Park is comprised of 30 lots on the 1.4-hectare site.

PROPERTY developer Luke Saraceni is in negotiations for the purchase a large tract of land at Vasse, including plans for a major town.

AUSTRALIANS like investing in property and the rapid growth of investment in property syndicates has allowed small investors a piece of the top end of town.

MALAGA is moving away from its reputation as a sleepy hollow thanks to a business development boom.Osborne Park is rapidly becoming a retail, office and showroom precinct and land values are rising to match.

EMIRATES is one of two new tenants moving into the Cape Bouvard Investments-owned building at 181 St Georges Terrace.