Ron Manners, Colin Beckett and Denise Goldsworthy were among the 68 Western Australians recognised in this year's Queen's Birthday Honours list along with Seven West's Ryan Stokes, who was awarded for his services to the media industry.
SPECIAL REPORT: The planned redevelopment of the Shenton Park hospital site will add to a string of LandCorp projects boosting residential land supply in the western suburbs.
Residential rents in Perth are now 13 per cent lower than the peak of 18 months ago, with the median price to lease a property slipping to $410 per week.
Perth's median house price is either flat or on the nose, according to the latest analyses by market watchers CoreLogic RP Data and the Real Estate Institute of WA.
The second measure of Perth's residential real estate market in as many days has shown a similar result, with the Real Estate Institute of WA (Reiwa) reporting a 1.3 per cent fall, or $5,000, in median prices in June.
Median rents in Perth are down around $50 from the peak of $475 per week in the middle of 2013, as the number of properties on the market continues to rise.
Perth house prices were steady in the three months to the end of May but rents were down, according to the latest data from the Real Estate Institute of WA.
The popularity of Busselton as a residential base for FIFO workers has contributed to solid growth in house prices in the South West city, which is now a more expensive place to buy a home than Karratha, where property values continue to plummet.
Home builders have given an overwhelmingly positive response to the state budget, but other major players in the property sector have criticised the scrapping of the $3,000 first home buyers grant
Perth house sales increased during the month of February but overall turnover was down on the same time last year, according to figures released by the Real Estate Institute of WA.
The Salvation Army's Western Australian division has recreated a strategic advisory board, about 20 years after the previous one was dismantled, with the new board including several well-known Perth business figures.
Perth's housing construction boom is fuelling a blowout in the number of properties available for lease, with the proliferation of apartments in particular prompting the state's top real estate group to question whether developers and government policy were providing what residents want.
Perth's residential rentals market is increasingly turning in favour of tenants, with rents continuing to fall and the number of properties for lease rising, according to prominent market analysts.
Houses sales flattened off this week and sit just 2 per cent above the average of 562/week for the year, which is unlikely to change much with only two weeks remaining in 2014.
Perth's residential real estate market is continuing to experience the malaise felt through much of 2014, with the Real Estate Institute of WA, and market analysts RP Data reporting slight lifts in
The federal government's report on foreign investment in the property sector has been roundly welcomed by industry bodies, as it identifies that offshore buyers can be a positive addition to the ma
Perth's residential property market is continuing to stall, with two measures of the median price showing it's been largely steady for the past three months, and the number of transactions dropping
Perth's residential real estate market remained largely steady in September, with the Real Estate Institute of WA reporting a 1 per cent rise, while national analysts RP Data said median home price
Sales have slumped in Perth's residential market, but the median home value has held firm, according to the latest analysis from the Real Estate Institute of WA.
Real Estate Institute of Western Australia president David Airey says local government authorities have lost sight of the big picture in planning and approvals reform, and amalgamation of councils will only exacerbate the issues.
Perth's residential market is being dominated by house and land packages and apartments, leaving a gaping hole of medium-density housing despite public calls for more dwellings of that type, accord
Perth home sales are down 5 per cent on the same time last year with investors and first home buyers showing weaker interest, according to new data from the Real Estate Institute of WA.
Perth's median house price may have peaked in the March quarter, as listings rise and sales fall, according to data released by the Real Estate Institute of Western Australia.
Perth's residential property market has come off the boil, with the Real Estate Institute of WA reporting patchy sales in the March quarter, while property analysts RP Data-Rismark said the city's
Finbar Group is on the lookout for new opportunities in the Pilbara, despite selling less than half the apartments in its most recent project in Karratha.
David Airey has been re-elected for a second term as president of the Real Estate Institute of Western Australia, while Dethridge Groves Real Estate owner Hayden Groves has been appointed as his ne
