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Property 25 Sep 2025

Atlas Building restoration a ‘labour of love’

A rare Perth office building constructed in 1930 has been restored to its former glory.

Property 29 Jul 2025

TRCB with city move

The architecture firm is aligning with a growing trend of relocating from the suburbs into the city.

Barristers have moved into the top floors of Citibank House, with the ground floor foyer refurbished.

Professions 01 Apr 2025

Barristers move into ex-Citibank building

A new barristers' chambers, which includes the legal counsel for Wright Prospecting and Brittany Higgins, has moved into the top floors of the former Citibank building.

Special Reports 19 Feb 2025

City offices look up as market tightens

The numbers are pointing to an improving outlook for Perth's CBD landlords.

Property 08 Nov 2024

QV1 attracts three new tenants

Suncorp, Dassault Systemes and Gallagher will join BP, Euroz Hartleys, Steinepreis Paganin, JERA Australia and BCG in the office tower.

Property 20 Mar 2024

BP to move to QV1

The energy company has signed a five-year lease for the CBD tower, adding to a string of recent leasing deals in the CBD.

Special Reports 21 Feb 2024

CBD tenants shifting quayside

Perth's office landscape continues to evolve as the city's focal point shifts.

Property 03 Aug 2023

CBD office vacancy stable

Property Council figures show a 0.2 per cent lift in Perth's office vacancy to 15.9 per cent, the second highest in the country but amid an influx of new supply.

Property 28 Jun 2023

JERA to move to QV1

The move marks the second major leasing deal in a month for the 43-storey tower, and follows the departure of oil and gas giant Chevron.

Special Reports 22 Feb 2023

CBD office market mounts comeback

Perth's office market is showing signs of strengthening.

Property 01 Feb 2023

Perth’s office vacancy dips

The Property Council's latest biannual office market report shows a slight drop in Perth's office vacancy in the six months to January 2023.

Property 04 Aug 2022

Perth office vacancy highest in nation

The CBD has seen a 0.8 per cent increase in office vacancy rates in the past six months as new supply hits the market, Property Council figures show.

Property 03 Feb 2022

Perth CBD office vacancy rate dips to 15 per cent

Industry experts say the 2 per cent drop in office vacancy reflects the growth of the state's economy during COVID.

Property 10 Aug 2021

FMG expands office footprint

Fortescue Metals Group has leased more than 3,000 square metres of space at an office building close to its headquarters in East Perth.

Property 29 Apr 2021

Perth sublease space rises

Sublease space across Perth's CBD offices increased during the first quarter of 2021, but has had minimal impact on the overall market, according to CBRE's latest report.

Property 10 Nov 2020

Gold Fields shifts to the terrace

The state's top gold producer has signed one of the biggest office leasing deals for 2020, securing a tenancy at Brookfield Properties and Hawaiian's 235 St Georges Terrace.

Property 29 Oct 2020

Lift in sublease volume

National office sublease space jumped by more than 30 per cent in the September quarter, with sublease space in the Perth office market increasing by just 2.2 per cent.

Property 13 Aug 2020

Slight uptick in office vacancies

Perth's latest office vacancy rate increased marginally since February, but the state's CBD and West Perth markets took out the top spots for most vacancies in the country.

Property 21 Jul 2020

Tightening supply to bolster office market

CBRE's latest office report has highlighted how minimal new office supply entering the Perth market could help shelter it from the brunt of COVID-19.

Property 06 Feb 2020

Office market gaining steam as recovery takes hold

Professional services and flexible office providers have provided a boost to momentum in Perth's CBD office market, with the Property Council of Australia's vacancy rate continuing to decline and top-quality office accommodation becoming scarce.

Property 08 Oct 2019

Vacancy rate at 140 St Georges nears zero

AMP Capital has secured tenants for four whole floors of 140 St Georges Terrace, which has pushed the vacancy rate at the office tower to below 1 per cent.

Property 01 Aug 2019

Perth CBD office market leads nation for rental growth

Perth's office market has emerged as the hottest leasing market in the country, with falling vacancies putting upwards pressure on rents in top-grade office stock.

Property 11 Jul 2019

Demand stokes office rent rise

Vacancies continue to fall in Perth's CBD office market, pushing rents up for the first time since 2013.

Property 11 Apr 2019

Office vacancies down but confidence fails to rebound

A decreasing office vacancy rate and improving fundamentals in the wider economy have failed to halt the slide in confidence in Western Australia's commercial property sector.

Property 20 Mar 2019

SMEs join suburbs to CBD office flight

Small to medium enterprises have joined the unrelenting migration of firms moving from the suburbs to Perth's CBD, with affordability in the central city office market described as unprecedented.

Property 15 Feb 2019

Developers line up for Perth’s next office opportunity

Developers across Perth's CBD are positioning themselves to ride the city's next wave of office development, with options for tenants with large space requirements becoming scarce despite an overall vacancy rate of 18.5 per cent.

Property 31 Aug 2018

Office sublease space ticks up

The first increase in Perth's office sublease space in almost three years is an indication of growing confidence in the market, according to CBRE.

Property 02 Aug 2018

Perth office vacancies continue to fall

The worst may be over for Perth's office market, with the latest statistics pointing to another fall in vacancies, dropping slightly from 19.8 per cent to 19.4 per cent in the six months to July, according to the Property Council of Australia's mid-year office market report released today.