Tensions between the City of Subiaco and the Subiaco Redevelopment Authority (SRA) over the China Green site development have reached new heights, with the former threatening legal action if its request to settle differences with the SRA through mediation
Rising interest rates and global financial uncertainty are having a tangible impact on Western Australia’s housing industry, with two sets of economic data indicating a downward trend in the local market.
West Perth-based developer Cedar Woods Properties Ltd has won a state government tender to develop the Harrisdale Village estate in Forrestdale, through a joint venture with the Department of Housing and Works.
Mount Hawthorn could soon be competing with Subiaco and other near-city suburbs as a hub for businesses and as a lifestyle destination for young families.
AS a spate of new construction projects get under way across the CBD and West Perth, the City of Perth has announced it will review its planning scheme for plot ratio and building heights.
A proposal to install a giant observation wheel on the Swan River foreshore has received enthusiastic support from two committees of the City of Perth.
South Perth-based property developer Finbar Group Ltd has received approval for its 15-storey office tower on the former Fairlanes Bowling site at 175 Adelaide Terrace.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has obtained injunctions against Perth property developers Kenneth and Morag Fraser and associated companies to stop the promotion of nine land sub-division schemes.
The Real Estate Institute of Western Australia data released today show a fall of almost three per cent on the median house price for the March quarter, pulling it down from $470,000 at the end of last year to around $457,000 currently.
The trend towards more liberal retail trading hours in WA is gaining momentum with the state government approving extended trading throughout December and the City of Bunbury backing deregulation of trading through the year.
More than 20 years after it was established in WA, Burswood-based town planning and project management firm, Koltasz Smith, has been bought by UK-based environmental consultancy RPS Group plc.
Bibra Lake, Jandakot and Kwinana are expected to be among the strongest performing surburbs in Perth’s industrial land market over the long term, according to a report from Jones Lang LaSalle.
Regarded by many as a prime spot to house one of Western Australia’s biggest arts organisations, the former ABC studios site on Adelaide Terrace instead appears likely to be sold to property developers.
The Western Australian Cricket Association’s master plan for a redevelopment of its grounds – which would allow buildings as tall as the existing light towers in some areas – has been directed back to the drawing board by the City of Perth, due to a lack
THE management of Perth Airport has committed to releasing its redevelopment plans by the end of the month after Premier Alan Carpenter criticised the private owners for failing to respond to congesti
Osborne Park-based technology developer, Structural Monitoring Systems Plc has announced the successful trial installation of its comparative vacuum monitoring system (CVM) on a Boeing commercial aircraft.
Investors in Western Australia’s commercial property market appear to be feeling the effects of the global credit squeeze, as the first quarter of the calendar year passes without a single sale of prime stock in Perth’s CBD.
New homes sales in Western Australia fell 33.2 per cent in February, on the back of a January sales spike, according to the Housing Industry Association’s latest survey of the 100 largest residential builders in Australia.
