News Articles for Blackburne

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.

Alister Yiap has explored a number of business models to find the best way to move his jewellery-meets-art into the hands of his admiring customers.

A seven-storey apartment project at Ascot Waters has added more variety to the market in Perth's eastern suburbs, with the developer saying it has attracted potential buyers from other parts of the city.

Colgan Industries has been awarded a $7.2 million contract to build stage seven of Karrakatta Mausoleum.

Perth's first pop-up apartment installation at Forrest Chase has been extended for one more day, offering visitors the chance to win a free month's stay at the Oracle apartments on Stirling Street as part of a 12-month social experiment.

SPECIAL REPORT: Big changes to the home services sector have boosted consumer control over choice, leading to a more competitive market as an increasing number of consumers want care kept at home.

Service providers and developers are pursuing opportunities in WA's growing aged care and retirement sector, with a pipeline of property overhauls and new builds worth more than $500 million.

Sales across Perth's new apartments market are on the rise, with larger apartments offering premium amenities emerging as best sellers.

Community acceptance of tall buildings has come a long way in Perth, but developers still face significant challenges in their efforts to add density to near-city suburbs.

Developers are seeking to exploit new niches in Perth's residential apartment market, with slow sales and patchy project launches likely to lead to supply issues in the near future.

Apartments specialist Blackburne achieved $62 million worth of sales in one weekend at its latest project in Claremont, with the results confirming strong demand for western suburbs apartments.

An improved iron ore price delivered huge boosts for mining magnates Gina Rinehart and Andrew Forrest, who were two of the three Western Australians to feature in the top 10 on the nation's best known rich list.

Construction will start on Sirona Capital's $270 million Kings Square Fremantle revitalisation project in August, with national construction contractor Probuild signed to carry out the works.

Doubt has been cast over a wave of proposed apartment and hotel developments, with a patchy sales market forcing developers to apply for extensions to planning approvals for hundreds of millions of dollars' worth of projects.

TRG Properties will develop 170 apartments at Claremont Oval, after becoming LandCorp's fourth private sector partner at its Claremont on the Park renewal project.

Perth's median house price is on the verge of upswing in 2017, as a stabilising labour market and surging commodity prices drive marked improvements in consumer sentiment.

Satterley Property Group is closing its long-time South Perth headquarters, taking advantage of historically high levels of vacant office space to move across the river to West Perth.

Waning interest in off-the-plan apartment sales in Perth is adding to the challenges facing developers.

Telstra's administrative headquarters on Stirling Street has been sold and the new owner, a private equity player from China, plans to redevelop it into a 500-bed student accommodation facility, the second such proposal for the area.

Prices in one of Perth's newest residential enclaves, The Springs at Rivervale, are holding value better than apartments across the wider Perth metropolitan area, despite concerns of excess supply restraining capital growth.

Perth property developer Paul Blackburne is the wealthiest of five Western Australians featured in the BRW Young Rich List 2016.

The warmer spring weather has coincided with cautious optimism coming back to Perth's apartments market.

National builders John Holland and Probuild are embracing new strategies to enhance their standing in the WA construction market.

LandCorp has released design guidelines for the redevelopment of Bassendean Oval, flagging development of up to eight storeys around the Swan Districts Football Club home ground.

SPECIAL REPORT: International players with big balance sheets are set to change the dynamics of Perth's apartment market.

SPECIAL REPORT: Developers are banking on a change in sentiment later this year in Perth's challenging apartments market.

There were 23 Western Australians featured in this year's BRW Rich 200 List, with two new entrants and two others failing to make the cut.

SPECIAL REPORT: WA's big construction companies are going through a transition phase, following the end of a major building boom.

Blackburne has become the latest developer to buy into LandCorp's Claremont on the Park, unveiling a plan to build 123 apartments and 1,950 square metres of commercial space on one of the landmark

Construction has begun on Blackburne's 22-storey, 140-apartment Oracle project on the outskirts of the CBD in Northbridge, the first building to start in a proposed wave of development around Stirling Street worth just less than $1 billion.

Creating an apartments juggernaut has been all about good timing and sticking to a strategy for the head of the 2016 40under40 cohort.

Prominent land developer Nigel Satterley has predicted more pain to emerge from Perth's apartments market, forecasting widespread price falls and more projects to fail as pressure builds on developers.

Blackburne managing director Paul Blackburne was last night named the 2016 Business News 40under40 First Amongst Equals, ahead of a talented and diverse field of candidates.

Jarrad Sizer has been appointed as general manager – developments at Blackburne Property Group. Mr Sizer was previously the company's director of developments.

Two apartment projects on the outskirts of Northbridge have provided a window into the challenges facing developers in Perth's multi-residential sector.

It wasn't that long ago that a 30-storey apartment proposal was considered a bit of a stretch in Perth, but a spate of new projects is changing that.

LandCorp has named a shortlist of three developers for the construction of a fourth lot at Claremont on the Park, while the City of Swan has approved a master plan for the Midland Oval redevelopment.

SPECIAL REPORT: Apartment projects typically rely on streamlined, slick marketing techniques to attract and secure buyers; now, however, developers are turning to technology not only in their advertising, but also in their building design to establish a point of difference.

SPECIAL REPORT: New players have big ambitions in Perth's apartment market, with listed company Finbar Group and Golden Group heading our ranking of the biggest developers.

SPECIAL REPORT: Developers say Perth's apartment market is the most challenging it's ever been, but that hasn't stopped a groundswell of interest in big projects. Click through to see our listing of Perth's 30 largest developments.