Property

STATE Government moves to implement a Coastal Planning and Coordination Council to determine appropriate development along the coast has received a mixed reaction from local government authorities.

THE City of Perth has launched a program of financial incentives to encourage conservation of heritage places.

WESTERN Australian-based multi-platform real estate agency Asset Domain has merged with Dempsey Real Estate to create an integrated real estate company specialising in the top-end property market.

AFTER a decade of stagnation the industrial property market is experiencing a strong upturn and rental growth is tipped to be on the horizon.

CONCERNS about the fire safety standards in some Perth nightclubs and other high-risk public buildings have prompted the City of Perth to consider establishing a risk management strategy to ensure building owners comply with current standards in the Build

ONLINE stockbroking firm and provider of complementary financial services, Australian Investment Exchange, formerly known as Sanford Securities, will relocate into the former Hartleys tenancy at 141 St Georges Terrace.

A NEW report from BIS Shrapnel has forecast strong construction levels over the next three to four years, peaking in 2006-07.

CHANGES to the national policies on investment in inner-city apartments by major banks and mortgage insurers is proving to be a hurdle for Perth's growing apartment market.

WESTERN Australian-based property group Aspen Group Limited has announced a half-yearly net profit before tax of $1.71 million coming off the back of $6.06 million in revenue.

PROPERTY developer Mirvac Fini has purchased a development site in the riverside suburb of Maylands, joining the trend to move apartment developments out of the city into the eastern riverside precincts.

Exchange Plaza property manager Trish Innes is aiming to drive the delivery of property management for the premium office tower in a new direction, as Tracey Cook reports.

AS the mercury soared into the 40s last week Perth's increasing reliance on air-conditioning to cool homes and workplaces became starkly evident.

DECENTRALISATION of tenants to suburban locations and the downsizing in corporate organisations has caused the Perth CBD office market to experience a negative net absorption over the past three years to September 2003.

SPURRED on by widespread residential development, retailers are flocking to the Perth southern suburb of Canning Vale to set up shop.

PERTH property owners are overpricing their properties by up to 10 per cent in the expectation that house prices will rise by over 20 per cent during the coming year, according to Hegney Property Valuations.

PERTH'S biggest apartment development, the $300 million Mounts Bay Village complex, may finally be completed after the turmoil following the collapse of HIH in 2001.

NOT-FOR-PROFIT organisation, Activ Foundation, has begun its search for new headquarters to house its central administration operations.

A GROUP of farmers is preparing for the final stage of a 17-year battle with Western Power over compensation for land the utility has taken to carry high voltage power lines.

PRIVATELY-OWNED boutique property developer SC Land has released its plans for an exclusive ultra-luxury residential development on a prominent riverside Crawley block, formerly own

RESPONDING to the recent sales success of its first release of apartments in the Allegro residential tower, Mirvac Fini is moving quickly to release the second stage of The Peninsula to the property market and finally begin construction on site.

PETER Laurance's Pivot Group is poised to start construction on a multi-million dollar office development in West Perth.

“It is a matter of planning and designing the buildings for the nearby activity or any risk.”

A popular development option in other parts of the country, built-form estates are starting to compete with traditional house and land packages in Western Australia, as Tracey Cook reports.

THE sudden departure of long-serving Real Estate Institute of WA chief executive Michael Griffiths has sparked a call for a special general meeting of the institute and an explana

AFTER 17 years in the real estate game, most of it selling and leasing homes to overseas business executives and retired couples, a Perth businesswoman is taking a novel approach to business integration.

PROFESSIONAL indemnity insurance has become one of the most expensive forms of cover in the past two years and a major overhead for business.

Amid the continuing heritage debate, recently appointed Heritage Council chairperson Patric de Villiers talks to Tracey Cook and outlines his position on the contro

GANDEL Retail Management is not alone in its wait for a final outcome to its appeal to the Town Planning Tribunal.

AN Australian Bureau of Statistics report on Western Australian Statistical Indicators has forecast continuing strength in the housing sector and revealed the under

THE City of Swan has given the go-ahead to Gandel Retail Management's proposed $100 million redevelopment of the Midland Gate Shopping Centre.

WESTERN Australia's peak property industry group, the Real Estate Institute of WA, expects the State's real estate market to continue its solid growth throughout 2004 in response to WA's strengthening economy.

PERTH'S universities are capitalising on their sizeable land holdings in an effort to remain viable in the increasingly competitive world of tertiary eduction.