For more than two-and-a-half years, residents of South Perth's luxury Pinnacle Apartments have been taking in the uninterrupted panoramic city views they were sold from behind glass doors.
Small to medium enterprises have joined the unrelenting migration of firms moving from the suburbs to Perth's CBD, with affordability in the central city office market described as unprecedented.
Australian institutional investors and offshore property powerhouses sharpened their focus on potential upside in Perth's office market in 2018, as the total value of transactions approached $1 billion.
Doubt has been cast over a wave of proposed apartment and hotel developments, with a patchy sales market forcing developers to apply for extensions to planning approvals for hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of projects.
Frustration is mounting among developers in South Perth as they are forced to reassess projects after the second major change to the suburb's town planning guidelines in the past six years.
China-backed developer Zone Q Investments' plans for a South Perth apartment tower on MIll Point Road have been rejected for a second time by planning authorities, as uncertainty over the suburb's town planning scheme puts a cloud over future development.
SPECIAL REPORT: Local developer and syndicator Primewest joined the list of Western Australia's top three office landlords following its $113 million purchase of a 50 per cent stake in Exchange Tower.
SPECIAL REPORT: Perth's suburban office market is becoming as patchy as that in the CBD, with Joondalup and Fremantle emerging as the only upcoming opportunities for new developments.
Chinese property developer and investment group Zone Q Investments has added a CBD office tower to its growing Perth portfolio, buying Westralia Plaza for $87 million.
Another developer in South Perth will be forced to rethink its apartment tower plans following the Supreme Court of Western Australia's decision last month to send a Mill Point Road apartment proposal back to the drawing board.
SPECIAL REPORT: Developers say Perth's apartment market is the most challenging it's ever been, but that hasn't stopped a groundswell of interest in big projects. Click through to see our listing of Perth's 30 largest developments.
Chinese developer Zone Q Investments is advancing plans for its second major apartment project in Perth, lodging a development application for a 21-storey tower on the corner of Beaufort and Aberdeen streets in Northbridge.
Finbar Group is confident it will start building its $380 million Civic Heart project in South Perth later this year, after the massive apartment development received planning approval to proceed y
Apartment developer Finbar Group is sharpening its focus on South Perth, buying another development site on which it plans to construct a $60 million, 56-apartment complex.
Buyers have rushed to grab a slice of one of South Perth's planned residential towers, with more than 60 per cent of the apartments on offer at Finbar Group's Aurelia selling in the first weekend o
Construction on Chinese developer JianHe Jian Group's $100 million residential and commercial project opposite Perth Zoo in South Perth is expected to begin later this month, after local builder JA
Our annual Apartment Developers feature discusses the oversupply debate of apartments in Perth's inner city, the government's proposed changes to strata titles, and the next wave of demand for apartment projects.
A western suburbs real estate agency has set up a dedicated China marketing arm, as growing numbers of Chinese developers eye Perth's burgeoning apartment market for large project opportunities.
The eastern edge of Northbridge is emerging as Perth's next hotspot for apartment development with four new projects proposing more than 600 dwellings or hotel rooms seeking approval.
Developers are still rolling out significant new apartment projects across the metropolitan area, despite statistics showing multi-unit dwelling sales decreasing steadily as more supply comes to market.
Chinese developer JiaHe Jian Group has launched its first Western Australian project – a $100 million, two-tower office and residential development overlooking the zoo in South Perth.
