A SHORT supply of big retail spaces in the CBD is hampering plans by two of Europe's top fashion chains to set up shop in Perth and reap the benefits of the state's long-term economic outlook.
Perth's pressure-cooker office market is driving the development of a number of smaller projects on the edge of the CBD as city tenants seek space to consolidate their operations and take advantage
PERTH'S listed property players are upbeat in their outlook for 2012 even if investor sentiment and an anaemic residential market continue to weigh on their performance.
A WELL-KNOWN Perth family is understood to be the new owner of a significant swathe of Oxford Street after paying $9.5 million for four of Leederville's most high-profile shopfronts.
PERTH Waterfront Taskforce chair Stuart Hicks is pitting his alliance-building skills against Fremantle's thorniest planning issues after taking on the chair of the newly formed Fremantle Union.
LOCAL developers have cautiously welcomed a push to simplify the environmental approvals process for the Perth and Peel regions, so long as it doesn't push up the cost of housing.
THE City of Perth has unveiled a plan to revitalise the Gasworks Building and its surrounding precinct on Wellington Street, with the creation of an artistic hub for the fashion and photographic in
Planning Minister John Day says the state government is considering mandating more local government involvement in its plan to establish a redevelopment authority to oversee the entire metropolitan
DEVELOPERS along the Scarborough beachfront received a bit of good news last week when the City of Stirling gave the green light to a $53 million revamp of the precinct.
LUKE Saraceni is understood to be close to putting an administrator into his interest in the troubled Port Geographe project after listed property developer Axiom put its 40 per cent stake into adm
PERTH property syndicator Primewest is understood to be close to buying the former Clough building at 251 St Georges Terrace in a deal industry sources suggest could be worth at least $60 million.
FIGURES released this week have confirmed the continuing poor performance of the Western Australian housing sector, with Perth recording the largest median price falls of any capital city during th
AFTER years of dabbling with its own online real estate offers, The West Australian newspaper has reached an agreement with the Real Estate Institute of Western Australia to use its popular search
AFTER a decade in Dubai, Woods Bagot architect Mark Mitcheson-Low has moved back to Perth with big ambitions for the city he sees as the regional growth hub of Australia.
The Australian Building and Construction Commission has taken court action against Perth company Inner Strength Steel Fixing and its director, Vishuddha Shane Sacha, over allegations they engaged i
THE City of Fremantle has acknowledged that redeveloping a series of eyesores in its dilapidated east end is key to any plan to revitalise the port city's economy.
THE threat of store closures at major chain operator Premier Retail has underscored the difficult trading conditions for the sector, with Western Australia's resources industry failing to provide t
SUBIACO-BASED engineering consultancy firm Pritchard Francis has appointed land development experts Cory Johnson and Phillip Patterson as part of the expansion of its civil engineering practice.
THE state government has short-listed three companies to potentially partner with its agency LandCorp in the development of Eglinton in Perth's northern coastal development corridor.
Bunbury is hoping to cement itself as the retail hub for the South West by investing more than $150 million into the development of its shopping centres.
IT has been 18 years in the making, but the final pieces of the Subi Centro puzzle are snapping into place, with significant progress occurring at the last two undeveloped sites, the Australian Fine China precinct and Centro North.
THE towns of Cambridge and Vincent want to reunite the elements of the old area of Leederville divided by the Mitchell Freeway as part of a plan to develop key pockets of land isolated by modern transport infrastructure.
LISTED property developer Peet expects to expand its land holdings by as much as 30 per cent over the next five years after partnering with the Future Fund to buy and develop large, residential land holdings in Australia.
ARCHITECTURE firm Silver Thomas Hanley has been appointed to lead the design team for the $234 million redevelopment of St John of God Hospital in Murdoch.
NATIONAL property developer Stockland has boosted its Western Australian residential land holdings by almost 40 per cent to close the big gap between it and local leaders, Satterley and Peet.
THE sale of two significant suburban shopping centres in Perth will test investor enthusiasm for the state government's new retail property planning policy.
