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After a rapid turnaround in the commercial property sector during the past year, property commentators are forecasting a bumper five years ahead, with the market riding on the back of the bounding resources economy.

There is something old and something new about the recently revamped Beaufort Street Merchants in Highgate.

Almost everyone involved in property has made money in recent years.

AFTER weeks of searching and deliberation, Delizioso owner and chief pizza artisan, Raffaele Brotzu, has decided to open a second pizza outlet in Perth.

Listed property group Stockland has filed a development approval to construct a $23 million shopping centre in Baldivis with the intention of increasing its retail presence in Western Australia.

The Master Builders Association of WA says two new economic surveys have confirmed that building industry conditions are set to remain strong in 2006.

Demand for land at LandCorp’s upmarket Minim Cove development in Mosman Park continues, with buyer interest in an early December release outnumbering available lots by four to one.

There is always a fantastic energy and optimism in Western Australia when the economy is booming and work is plentiful. Few people would dispute that we enjoy one of the best lifestyles in the world. So amid all this confidence and what would seem such a

There are no signs the wave of growth being ridden by the state’s information and communication technology sector is going to peak any time soon, but the sector still faces some formidable challenges in the years before 2010.

It has been 200 years since Horatio, Viscount Nelson has lain dead after the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. His flagship, HMS Victory, lives on as a shrine at the Royal Navy base at Portsmouth, England; his memory lives on in the hearts of seafarers.

These days we often hear about our ‘ageing population’, but this demographic shift is about so much more than simply a baby boom.

One quarter of Australians will be aged 65 years or more by the year 2045, roughly double the present proportion, according to the latest population projections.

Perth is a unique location in the resources world, arguably the only place outside the major financial capital of London that can lay claim to being a global centre that straddles both the mining and oil and gas sectors.

Renowned corporate head kicker and Consolidated Minerals boss Michael Kiernan has positioned ConsMins for some healthy profits over the next few years, but it has been at a cost. Mark Mentiplay reports.

That the runaway Chinese economy is the reason for all that is right with Western Australia’s booming mining sector is becoming a bit of a cliché.

One of the most significant challenges facing the state government is its capacity to provide economic and social infrastructure that is able to keep pace with Western Australia’s rapid growth.

I found out the other day that broadband digital subscriber line (DSL) principles were developed 20 years ago.

WILL 2005 be forever etched in our memories?

Australia is almost singularly focused on a rising China, yet while the resource-led boom offers governments significant revenue through taxes and royalties, little thought or consideration is given to India, a nation which shares strategic space with Aus

Melbourne-based fund manager SAITeysMcMahon has been confirmed as the buyer of Wesfarmers House on the Esplanade, paying $47.5 million in the second biggest property deal of the year.

As the gutted shell of Xanadu Wines, the renamed Global Wine Ventures, considers its options, the Rathbone family is moving quickly to re-establish founder Dr John Lagan’s vision of Xanadu as a premium Margaret River wine and tourism icon.

The state’s recently passed Mining Amendment Bill may aim to provide greater incentive for mineral exploration, but concerns remain that the current production boom is blinding decision makers to the decline in exploration spending.

The big spenders in the September quarter may represent a vastly different group but one commodity group that stands apart from the iron ore hunters is the diamond explorers.

The wealthy and private Caratti farming family has been linked to a major CBD office deal of this year, the $11.3 million purchase of 218 St Georges Terrace.

Curtin University is facing big changes in 2006 after chancellor Eric Tan announced he would retire when his current term expires in March.

It might feel like a long way away but the events at Cronulla Beach in Sydney at the weekend are something we should all be wary of.

Last week’s in-camera parliamentary privileges committee hearings on Liberal leader Matt Birney’s financial interests statements raised a host of questions that will hopefully be addressed before Christmas.

‘Unintended consequences’ is one of those marvellous expressions which, when translated, simply means we have no idea what will happen after we change the rules.

There were no punches pulled by the wine industry experts who addressed last week’s WA Wine Industry Outlook Conference 2005.

The good times are continuing in the Perth office market, with almost $400 million worth of CBD property changing hands this year and local investors weighing in heavily alongside interstate and international buyers.

Listed property trust Aspen Group Ltd has bought the Dunsborough Lakes residential development from Ric Stowe’s Griffin Group for $93.5 million.

HEALTH fund HBF managing director Mike Gurry has highlighted the rising cost of medically implanted prostheses, which amounted to $52 million last year, as well as operations and doctors’ fees, in