Incoming Peet chief executive and former mining executive, Brendan Gore, has largely missed out on most of the boom times in the sector where he spent the first 14 years of his career.
Its days of pioneering land sales in Western Australia on terms of a one-pound deposit and interest-free repayments of 10 shilling per month may be long gone, but property stalwart Peet Ltd has not lost any of its entrepreneurial spirit.
The Great Southern town of Denmark could have a new major shopping centre next year, with Perth-based diversified property player Castelli Group and the Denmark Cooperative Company Ltd spearheading a $10 million joint venture.
Labour shortages and escalating building costs in regional and remote areas have prompted some building companies in Western Australia to seek innovative housing solutions.
ING Real Estate Development Australia and Lewis Land have started construction on their $81 million Wellington Central office development in West Perth, without securing an anchor tenant.
Proving Perth's office market is still on the boil, an A-Grade, eight-storey office building at 1 Adelaide Terrace has just sold to institutional investors for $87 million.
Developer of the $400 million project at 140 William Street, Cbus Property, is on the lookout for tenants to occupy the site’s office and retail space component.
The bulldozers may have left Albany’s historic Esplanade Hotel site in February, but work still has not begun on its $70 million futuristic apartment and hotel complex replacement.
Homeowners who choose to sell their properties privately are finding themselves squeezed out of cyberspace as big industry players look to dominate internet advertising.
Now that BHP Billiton has pre-committed to Multiplex Group’s proposed office tower on the Westralia Square site, the pool of large prospective office tenants left to pursue in Perth is limited.
The eastward view from Perth across the river could soon change beyond recognition, under an ambitious planning move by the Town of Victoria Park, with the Causeway precinct at Burswood the subject of plans for up to six 18-storey apartment towers.
After more than a year of intense leasing negotiations for its proposed office tower on the Westralia Square site, Multiplex Group has confirmed BHP Billiton is moving in.
The Town of Victoria Park is embarking on an ambitious town planning exercise for the causeway land at Burswood, which could see intensive mixed-use development and six residential apartment towers of up to 18 storeys developed West of Burswood Road.
An investment syndicate comprising Charter Property, Churchill Capital, Prendiville Group and Broome International Airport has appointed prominent resort builder Rapley Wilkinson to redevelop Broome's Tropicana Inn.
While a number of regional shopping centres in Perth will undergo major expansion projects this year, the port city of Fremantle is working hard to keep its head above water in the retail stakes.
It’s been four years in the making, but the state government is about to roll out one of its biggest crime prevention strategies to date, and one which could change the direction of urban planning in Western Australia.
Developers who have secured large commercial sites around Perth are wasting no time transforming them into business parks, with at least five new developments recently announced.
With less than four months until the first train rolls in to Cockburn Central, the local council is planning some significant development projects to inject new life into the city.
A public swimming pool and more supermarkets are high on the wish list of the City of Perth community, as revealed this month in the first survey of residents undertaken by Perth council and the Property Council of Australia WA.
