The state government has detailed changes it plans to make across the public sector to enhance financial accountability and transparency, following recent corruption charges laid against a former senior public servant in the Department of Communities.
Fini Group has been given the green light to restore Shenton Park's Victoria House, with the heritage-listed former hospital to become a retail and hospitality precinct which will be integrated with 81 new dwellings.
Subiaco's apartments market is running hot, with Blackburne racking up rapid sales success at its $280 million One Subiaco development and boutique developer Celtic Properties launching an 82-dwelling development on Roydhouse Street.
An industrial estate near Mandurah will be the first of its kind in Australia to be powered by a solar energy microgrid, after the state government appointed Brookfield's Enwave Australia to build a solar farm and battery storage solution at Peel Business Park.
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Celsius Property Group has signed construction contractor Jaxon to build the latest apartment project at Claremont Oval, a $21 million, 40-dwelling luxury development.
International hotel group Hilton has chosen Albany to open its first Hilton Garden Inn in Australia, with construction starting on a five-storey, 108-room waterfront hotel this week.
LandCorp and energy trading platform Power Ledger have unveiled a 100 per cent renewable energy residential development at East Village at Knutsford near Fremantle.
Mirvac Group will start construction on the final stage of its Leighton Beach precinct this week, with a $40 million, 104-apartment complex expected to take around 18 months to complete.
Western Australia's Environmental Protection Authority has given conditional approval to LandCorp's long-awaited 750-pen Ocean Reef Marina, with the project a step closer to starting construction by the end of next year.
LandCorp and the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority have combined to release more than 150 lots of commercial, residential and industrial land across Perth and regional Western Australia, which could generate up to $1.3 billion in development opportunities.
LandCorp has challenged local builders to develop solutions to difficult site conditions and to showcase high-tech, innovative medium-density construction capability through two separate expressions of interest campaigns.
BGC Australia has appointed three high profile independent non-executive directors to help advise the family-owned business empire as it enters a global sale process.
The state government has failed to attract a hotel developer at Albany's Middleton Beach, with a recent expression of interest process bringing no suitable submissions.
Several alternative approaches to tackling housing affordability are taking shape across Fremantle, with social enterprise Nightingale Housing one step closer to actualising its Wood Street project with its recent launch of presales.
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Doing more with less is common practice for most businesses in an economic slowdown and the state's architects are no different, with many adapting and evolving their services to win work.
SPECIAL REPORT: Rita Saffioti is stamping her mark on the transport, lands and planning portfolios she took on last March, initiating a number of major reviews and appointing several industry figures to key roles.
Alkimos Beach and Elizabeth Quay have won top honours at the Urban Development Institute of Australia's national awards for excellence, presented in Melbourne last night.
Two weeks after the Mangles Bay marina proposal was knocked back, it has emerged that a marina development in Rockingham could still materialise, with a development application for the neighbouring Port Rockingham project lodged late last month.
The state government has named Fini Group and TRG Properties, in partnership with Primewest, as the successful proponents for the first two development lots at LandCorp's infill project Montario Quarter, located at the former Shenton Park Rehabilitation Hospital site.
Sustainability-driven land developments are taking shape across Western Australia, but only five projects have achieved the top six-leaf EnviroDevelopment certification.
The state government has blocked a major residential project near Rockingham, following objections by local residents and environmentalists, with joint venturer Cedar Woods Properties saying this afternoon it was disappointed and would seek to recover its costs.
SPECIAL REPORT: LandCorp is boosting land supply across Perth's established suburbs, but it's just a small step towards achieving long-standing goals for urban infill.
Local developer TRG Properties has secured the largest development site at LandCorp's urban infill project in Jolimont, with plans to build 46 luxury apartments already under way.
A Defence Housing Australia apartment project in Fremantle has become the state's third property development to be recognised as a One Planet Community, under the international Bioregional program.
The state government has announced a new board to run the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority and LandCorp in the lead up to their planned merger, with just one board member from the MRA continuing on the new body.
