SPECIAL REPORT: The state's major builders appear unfazed to be operating in what's considered among Western Australia's most competitive and closely monitored business sectors.
QUBE Property Group managing director Mark Hector and Emeco Holdings chief executive Ken Lewsey are among five business leaders appointed to the board of Lifeline WA, as the not-for-profit crisis support service looks to strengthen its corporate ties.
The supply of apartments in Perth's western suburbs will increase rapidly this year, with TRG Properties, Georgiou Living and Blackburne Property Group set to launch new projects during the next three months.
Rising vacancies and falling rents in Perth's CBD office market are putting tenants in prime position to score favourable deals, while the conditions could also result in potential bargains for institutional investors.
Boutique development firm QUBE Property Group says the recent approval of a $20.5 million, seven-storey apartment project in West Leederville is a firm endorsement of the state government's development assessment panels.
West Leederville is becoming a development hot spot, with Finbar Group entering a joint venture for a $90 million apartment project located near three new commercial buildings.
After a record-breaking 2012, the past 12 months have been pretty quiet for new office construction in Perth, with little significant space to be added until 2015.
The long-running Subi Centro redevelopment is entering its final phases, with Otan Property Funds Management selected to develop one of the last remaining parcels of land at the historic Australian
The $30.6 million, seven-storey Lime Street development has won a major prize from the Urban Development Institute of Australia, taking home the President's Award on Saturday night.
Several surveying firms have responded in one of two ways during the past year in response to slowing work opportunities in Western Australia – they have consolidated operations, or cast the net wi
The ink is finally dry on GHD's contract for at least 6,500sqm in QUBE Property Group's office project at 999 Hay Street on the western fringe of the CBD.
Construction of QUBE's office tower at 999 Hay Street is expected to start in August, amid expectations the developer will soon ink a leasing deal for the west end project.
The private sector is playing an increasing role in port development across Western Australia, as rising demand outstrips the government's capacity to deliver.
Construction of QUBE's new office tower in the CBD will set a high-water mark for the group, but being the best (not the biggest) remains the focus for this developer.
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.
LEIGHTON Properties has stolen a march on rival developers, including Brookfield Properties, aiming to start work on Perth's next large office buildings.
THE WA Local Government Association's new headquarters currently under construction is one of the first developments in West Leederville ahead of an expected rezoning of the eastern end of the sub
A CONSORTIUM of private investors has kicked off construction of a Perth CBD office building without pre-committed tenants, punting on the continuing strength of the market.
FROM Subiaco in the west to Booragoon in the south and Innaloo in the north, more than a dozen mid-sized office developments are either under way or at an advanced stage of planning around Perth.
Perth's pressure-cooker office market is driving the development of a number of smaller projects on the edge of the CBD as city tenants seek space to consolidate their operations and take advantage
In a move demonstrating confidence in Western Australia's commercial property sector, Georgiou Capital will commence construction on a Nedlands office development without pre-sales or tenant commitments.
BOUTIQUE developer Qube Property Group has continued to defy market trends, with 27 projects currently under way throughout Perth with a book value of more than $1.5 billion.
A wave of new office projects in West Perth and the western end of the city will provide some much-needed supply to the area, which has the tightest office market in the country and a vacancy rate of zero, according to the Property Council of Australia (WA)'s office market report.
WITH office space on Perth's fringe in high demand, QUBE Property Group has acquired a 4,000 square metre site in Daly Street Ascot, with a view to redeveloping for office accommodation.
Two former executive directors of local property group Clarke & Hawkins Management have split from the business to form boutique development and investment vehicle Qube Property Group Pty Ltd, taking more than $1 billion of projects with them.
