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Global Electrotech is now back in charge of its business, following a successful deed of company arrangement under which the contractor has emerged from voluntary administration and receivership.

Residential building approvals have hit a 25-year high in Western Australia, as record-low interest rates drive investors and first home buyers into the housing market.

More Western Australians have purchased their first home in the last year than any other state in Australia, according to a new report.

Bankwest head of corporate specialised & property finance, Alan Pavisich, has taken a redundancy after 26 years with the company.

The Fremantle Dockers' on-field success has delivered a pay-day for its supporters and corporate sponsors.

A prominent group of Perth investors may be drawn into a legal stoush over the financially stricken development of a multi-million dollar Broome apartment resort.

Rudd vows to cut GST red tape

LAST week the most ubiquitous brand launched an advertising campaign in which it proferred a newfound dedication to health awareness.

The rating of Australian banks by their business customers has declined sharply over the past five years, with one of the few exceptions being Bank of Queensland.

Media agency Adcorp Australia has been reappointed to the Western Australian government's non-campaign media contract.

Embattled property developer Luke Saraceni's battle with the corporate watchdog will move to the Supreme Court after his appeal to the Full Court of the Federal Court was dismissed this morning.

Shedding light on the social impact of Western Australia's remarkable growth will be a priority focus for the new economics research centre at Curtin University.

Bankwest has put its former administrative headquarters in Northbridge on the market, with agent Colliers International expecting the James Street property to stoke keen buyer interest.

The Western Australian economy is at the crossroads of a switch away from its very heavy reliance on resources-sector construction in favour of other parts of the economy – the interest rate-sensit

STEVE Carre has walked both sides of the business street - in big and small firms - and believes there's a touch of arrogance about the former's failure to recognise the value of the latter.

Gaines first woman on Fortescue board

THE slowdown in mining project development last year has affected the Perth office market, with the vacancy rate for CBD offices recording a modest increase to 5.7 per cent in January.

THE use of social media platform Yammer, a growing fly-in, fly-out workforce, and Big Brother-style analysis are tools increasingly in use by human resources departments across Western Australia.

A wide range of commercial property developers, from multinationals to church groups, are set to drive future activity in the sector.

IF there is one subject that unifies people across the property sector it is concern with the lending policies of the banks, which have been criticised for being overly strict and not really unders

New line-up for SBDC board

Bankwest has joined the ‘free-form' office revolution, with the launch this week of a technology-driven activity-based office as it settles into its new premises at Raine Square.

BHP Billiton's new office fit-out in Brookfield Place highlights the emergence of a new trend in Western Australian workspaces.

BANKWEST has dismissed accusations that its purchase by Commonwealth Bank at the height of the GFC had prompted it to act against risky clients or manufacture customer defaults.

Newly restored heritage buildings on St Georges Terrace are set to become a showpiece, but architects and developers worry new rules will halt other projects.

When Bob Williams gazes across the Perth city skyline to the CBD's western-most high rise building he is clearly still enthralled with the structure that marks the high and low point for his construction career.

WHILE the battle over the hearts and minds of superannuation stakeholders is fought relentlessly by industry and retail funds, it is their low-key cousins in the corporate sector that have quietly

THERE is nothing small about CJD Equipment.

De Luca replaces Sutton at Bankwest

WA's largest locally owned banking institution Police & Nurses Credit Society has announced that it will follow the Reserve Bank, cutting the full interest rate on its variable home loan produc

A buyer has been found for Luke Saraceni's New Esplanade Hotel, joint selling agents CBRE and Jones Lang La Salle say.

WHEN WA Business News started its total shareholder return survey nearly a decade ago, the world was just emerging from the dot.com boom.

Bankwest has recovered from last year's slump with an interim net profit of $224 million, after reducing its impaired loans expense and cutting business lending by 10 per cent.

Competition in the housing loans market is being bolstered by a revival of wholesale funding, with Australian Finance Group re-launching its securitisation business and Police & Nurses Credit Society launching its first-ever issue of mortgage-backed secur

The decision to overhaul a company's brand is not without risk, but many WA businesses are reaping the rewards. Russell Quinn & Blake Wilshaw report.

LARGE organisations eager to contribute to the not-for-profit sector often lack the time to adequately research where funds or workplace volunteers can be best directed.

It is not that Perth dealmakers are joining the dole queues, they have just had a little more time on their hands recently.

WHEN Celebrate WA announced Western Australia's Citizen of Year awards for 2009 two weekends ago the presence of the University of Western Australia would not have escaped the attention of many.