After nearly 13 years at the helm of boutique commercial property agency NSC Corporate, joint managing directors Steve Carulli and Nick Stanisis are shutting-up shop to join global property player Jones Lang LaSalle.
Architectural and design firm Woods Bagot is relishing its move to Fleet House on Murray Street, with its recent interior makeover injecting a new buzz into the business.
The City of Mandurah will use new forecast population data in its fight to have an entrance road to Mandurah built in time for the opening of the new $511 million Perth to Bunbury Highway in 2009.
Apartment developer Finbar International Ltd has secured another prime east-end development site in Perth through a joint venture with Malaysian investor Aun Heng Ng, owner of 122 Adelaide Terrace.
As the New Year approaches, property pundits are hedging their bets on where the market will head in 2007 while reflecting on a year during which the price of an established house rose by 46 per cent in just nine months.
The proposed relocation of Jandakot Airport is continuing to ruffle the feathers of a number of airport users who feel the move is unnecessary and destabilising for business.
The Fremantle Surf Lifesaving Club has engaged Leighton Beach developer Mirvac to produce a concept plan for a major upgrade of its clubrooms on Port Beach Road.
Nigel Satterley mingles with WA's business elite and with prime ministers, but it wasn't always so glamorous for the man who leads the nation's largest independent residential development company.
Australia's largest independent land developer Nigel Satterley has confirmed what most investors have now realised, Western Australia's six year property boom has come to an end - with the $1 million-plus home market the only real exception.
Myer Ltd is setting its sights firmly on the Western Australian retail scene with plans to establish a new distribution centre in Perth next year ahead of possibly opening two or three new stores.
Jandakot Airport lessee and property investment group, Ascot Capital, is eyeing land north of Perth for a potential expansion of the airport in the event of its controversial plan for a complete move failing to gain approval.
The wife of a former Firepower executive this week continued her action against the company’s director and former politician Gordon Hill, seeking to secure corporate documents ahead of a potential trial.
Private developers may soon be required to spend up to 1 per cent of their city project budgets on providing public art, following a City of Perth review of its arts policy.
Text messaging is entering the realm of fire control through a WA-designed residential fire sprinkler system, which can notify emergency services and owners via SMS when a property is on fire while directly extinguishing it.
The possibility of Broome becoming Western Australia’s second international flight hub next year is helping drive a major development push in the town, leading to strong sales of existing hotel properties.
West Leederville will get its first shopping centre in August next year following moves by supermarket giant Coles to anchor a new $30 million retail and office complex under construction at 115 Cambridge Street.
The Town of Claremont will initiate a town planning scheme amendment next month to kick start the state government’s planned redevelopment of Claremont Oval and land north of the railway station.
Toni Lehaney plans to leave an indelible mark on the Western Australian motoring scene with a combination of determination, big-picture vision and a touch of finesse.
After 10 years’ development, material scientist Paul Huggett is ready to take his composite alloy products to the world. But the Perth inventor knows he needs to conquer the local market first.
Premier Alan Carpenter’s move this week to turn up the heat on political lobbyists by creating a register of their activities, has prominent lobbyists and peak industry bodies puzzled.
Rockingham is shaking off its industrial image with a massive council works program and a number of residential and commercial developments concentrated on its foreshore precinct.
Western Australian small business minister Norm Marlborough has been sacked from cabinet after the state's corruption watchdog revealed explosive evidence of secret dealings he had with disgraced former premier Brian Burke.
Unstable housing foundations and resulting cracked walls are estimated to cost Australians hundreds of millions of dollars a year to remedy, but one innovative Perth engineer has emerged with a solution.
The State Administrative Tribunal’s recent approval of an $80 million 12-storey development for Hawthorne Place in Burswood has set the wheels in motion for a transformation of the Causeway precinct.
Housing construction in the town of Karratha may be at capacity, but it is not discouraging developers and property investors from heading north to find opportunities.
From new-age eco units to the latest in residential town living, Western Australia’s mining giants are embarking on a housing spending spree in the Pilbara to accommodate a growing, and more demanding, workforce.
The upward movement in official interest rates has affected confidence among potential borrowers in Western Australia, according to figures from the Department of Land Information.
A further rise in interest rates next week, coupled with increasing housing prices and slow residential land releases in Western Australia, has industry analysts predicting a significant fall in housing starts in 2006-07.
Perth’s Royal Kings Park Tennis Club is aiming to host a Davis Cup tie after the completion of its $20 million redevelopment, scheduled for March next year, with club officials confirming they are in discussions with organisers of the tournament.
