Gary Kleyn

THE opening of the new Graham Farmer Freeway will have a major impact on the Perth property market says Hegney Property Valuations managing director Gavin Hegney.

AT SOME stage in the near future, the shivers will degenerate to nervousness and then to chaos on the share and bond markets.

MANY investment schemes advertised as tax reducing are destined to fail, warns the Australian Securities and Investments Commission.

THE plan for the next thirty years of industry in the greater Bunbury area has been released by the WA Government.

THE Terrace Hotel is to be ‘downsized’ after approval of a $2.3 million redevelopment plan was granted by council.

Economic conditions in WA are improving after a year of sub-par performance, according to Challenge Bank’s Market Insights.

NORTHBRIDGE is receiving interest from developers and real estate agents who see benefits flowing from the tunnel project and associated redevelopment.

A five year vision for the tourism industry has been launched by Premier Richard Court.

A KUKERIN woman has won the inaugural Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation WA 2000 Rural Women’s Award.

THE South West continues to lead the way for tourism project development in regional WA, according to the latest figures released by the WA Tourism Commission.

WELSHPOOL-based sheet metal manufacturer AD Coote & Co has forecast a 250 per cent rise in its export sales in the next three years to about $1.7 million per annum.

WESTRAIL’S former Forrestfield marshalling yards are to be redeveloped as a sixty-three hectare industrial estate to meet long term needs for industrial land in Perth.

EAST Perth continues to experience strong demand for apartments with major successes for developers like the Fini Group, according to Colliers Jardine.

THE land development industry is hampered by government policies that see landowners as an easy target says Urban Development Institute of Australia president Graham McArthur.

A COMMUNITY-owned bank in Bayswater is a step closer to reality with the launch of the marketing plan for the venture.

STRONG building activity during 1999 has not translated into a drop in rents indicating there is no over supply in new homes according to BGC housing director Julian Ambrose.

NORTHBRIDGE is currently in transformation stage with the WA Government releasing a plan to revitalise part of the area above the Northbridge tunnel.

THE Real Estate Legislation Amend-ment Bill which relates to fidelity guarantee funds has been passed through WA Parliament.

AUSTRADE is trying to shift WA business focus from Asia to the world’s second fastest growing region – Latin America.

THE recent quarter of a percent increase in interest rates by the Reserve Bank of Australia was an over reaction according to the Real Estate Institute of WA.

CELEBRATIONS are ongoing in Bunbury over a national award granted by the Urban Development Institute of Australia for the Marlston Hill urban renewal project.

MANY CEOs are so caught up in running the day to day affairs of a business that they do not allow time to step back and assess longer term goals and strategies.

WESFARMERS has sold a major distribution warehouse in Bassendean to a local investment syndicate for $5.7 million.

THE Perth property market’s growing appetite for inner city residential developments continues unabated with a spate of new projects planned or underway in West Perth, East Perth, South Perth and the CBD says Colliers Jardine research manger David Cresp.

ENVIRONMENT Minister Cheryl Edwardes has described the Shire of Dardanup as a leader among the South West Shires in terms of environmental management.

CLOUGH Limited patriarch Harold Clough was named one of Australia’s export heroes by the Australian Institute of Export at a recent gala dinner in Sydney recently.

MATERIALS from the twentieth and twenty-first century have been brought together in the new Central TAFE building in Northbridge.

INNER City living should be restricted to the areas recommended by the Inner City Housing Taskforce in 1992, says Time Conti Sheffield managing director Paul Conti.

CREATING a niche for themselves in the South West is WA’s oldest and largest patent and trade mark attorney, Wray and Associates.

WHILE Australian gas reform to date has focussed on the mid and downstream sectors of the industry, gas supply is still not seen as particularly competitive.

ISSUES affecting Australia’s land development agencies were the subject of a recent talkfest hosted by WA’s LandCorp.

ALTHOUGH inner city living has gained in popularity in the past five years, the stage was set in the late 1980s, says Time Conti Sheffield managing director Paul Conti.