PERTH’S biggest apartment development, the $300 million Mounts Bay Village complex, may finally be completed after the turmoil following the collapse of HIH in 2001.
A GROUP of farmers is preparing for the final stage of a 17-year battle with Western Power over compensation for land the utility has taken to carry high voltage power lines.
PERTH-BASED information technology company AutumnCare Systems has set out to capitalise on the significant growth expected in the aged care market over the next decade.
WHILE it’s too early to gauge the long-term prospects of subscriber-based online DVD rental companies, the increasing number of new players entering the market suggests strong support for the idea.
THE commercial success and popularity of a wine may ultimately hinge on the quality of what’s in the bottle but increasingly producers are looking to improve what goes on the bottle as well.
WHAT was conceived as a simple operation offering a couple of do-it-yourself barbecues and tapas-style food has become a five-star restaurant called Chesters of Heafod Glen.
David Pike has drawn big red circles around February 9 and 10 in his work diary, as that’s when the best of the world’s rieslings will be at Frankland Estate’s international t
WHO holds the whip hand at Perth’s big law firms these days?
Is it the senior partners who know the local clients, or the people in Sydney and Melbourne who set the financial targets?
PERTH’S biggest law firms have been shrinking over the past decade while the smaller firms have been growing, leaving some pundits to suggest most law firms will end up looking remarkably similar.
A popular development option in other parts of the country, built-form estates are starting to compete with traditional house and land packages in Western Australia, as Tracey Cook reports.
RESPONDING to the recent sales success of its first release of apartments in the Allegro residential tower, Mirvac Fini is moving quickly to release the second stage of The Peninsula to the property market and finally begin construction on site.
PRIVATELY-OWNED boutique property developer SC Land has released its plans for an exclusive ultra-luxury residential development on a prominent riverside Crawley block, formerly own
WHILE The Water Corporation’s water restrictions might be causing headaches for local garden enthusiasts, they’ve created big business opportunities for a couple of Perth horticulturalists-turned-TV-stars.
TOO often in publishing we are accused of always seeking out the negative. Well, WA Business News tries where it can to balance the ledger and find the positive stories.
HE may have created one of Perth’s best-known coffee shop chains and be busily building up his next hospitality empire, but Geoff Hayward (pictured above) is not one to broadcast his achievements.
SWIFTEL Ltd CEO Chris Gale will have to shell out $100,000 in the next few weeks as part of a deal with the creditors of his private business interests, who have been trying to salvage about $1.2 million in debts.
LAST June, Perth investor Barry Patterson surprised the market by staking $10 million to take a controlling stake in struggling office supplies company National 1.
SHAREHOLDERS in Jubilee Mines look set to receive another generous dividend payment after the WA nickel miner last week foreshadowed a “spectacular” half-year financial position.
FEW realise that the Senate’s Legal and Constitutional Standing Committee (L&CSC) is considering “the most appropriate process for moving towards the establishment of an Australian republic with an Australian Head of State”.
AFTER 17 years in the real estate game, most of it selling and leasing homes to overseas business executives and retired couples, a Perth businesswoman is taking a novel approach to business integration.
