Dan Wilkie

Dan Wilkie rejoined the Business News editorial team as Associate Editor in late 2018, after having spent the previous 18 months launching the now-defunct Australia China Business Review as founding editor-in-chief. While specialising in commercial and residential property writing, Dan also wrote across industries and assisted editor Mark Beyer in planning and producing Business News' daily emails, fortnightly magazine and website publishing. Dan is a graduate of Curtin University.

$50m apartment JV for Finbar

$50m apartment JV for Finbar

By Dan Wilkie

Apartment specialist Finbar Group has launched a joint venture with investment and development firm Swanline Group to build a $50 million, 90-apartment mixed used project in East Perth.

14 Jan 2011
Oswal offers $20m to Burrup

Oswal offers $20m to Burrup

By Dan Wilkie

Pankaj Oswal has been accused of producing misleading information after he said he offered to deposit $20 million into Burrup Fertilisers to "avoid expensive and damaging litigation" stemming from the investigation of Burrup's financial irregularities.

13 Jan 2011
Investors hot for minerals listings

Investors hot for minerals listings

By Dan Wilkie

Investors have welcomed a flurry of Western Australia-based listings in the minerals exploration sector, with 10 out of 11 companies to float during the past month trading above their issue price.

13 Jan 2011
Algae.Tec launches IPO

Algae.Tec launches IPO

By Dan Wilkie

Global bio-fuels firm Algae.Tec has been launched on the ASX, with the clean technology firm's share price edging to 25 cents shortly after listing.

13 Jan 2011
Tough times ahead for retail: reports

Tough times ahead for retail: reports

By Dan Wilkie

TWO surveys released this week have predicted the retail sector will be left behind in 2011, as consumer apathy shrinks sales and the wider economy grows on the strength of the resources sector.

13 Jan 2011
Hospital jobs boost construction
Property

Hospital jobs boost construction

By Dan Wilkie

WESTERN Australia’s commercial construction sector is reaping the benefits of the state government’s commitment to the upgrade of the state’s medical infrastructure and facilities.

13 Jan 2011
Swan Valley syndicate a winner for Aspen

Swan Valley syndicate a winner for Aspen

By Dan Wilkie

Residential developer Aspen Group has announced its St Leonards Residential Land Syndicate has successfully raised the minimum $8 million required to commence the 181-lot residential project.

12 Jan 2011
Raine Square rift deepens
Property

Raine Square rift deepens

By Dan Wilkie

Receivers for troubled office development Raine Square say project financiers gave the developer, Westgem Investments, ample opportunity to meet its debt obligations, but Westgem chief Luke Saraceni says Bankwest would not discuss refinancing options.

12 Jan 2011
Magellan tests confirm lead compliance

Magellan tests confirm lead compliance

By Dan Wilkie

Independent laboratory tests have confirmed that lead concentrate levels in Magellan Metals' shipping containers have not exceeded national standards since the sampling program began 15 months ago.

11 Jan 2011
Cape Lambert looking to Sierra Leone

Cape Lambert looking to Sierra Leone

By Dan Wilkie

Cape Lambert Resources chairman Tony Sage says his minerals exploration firm will focus on advancing its Marampa iron ore project in Sierra Leone, after completing the $83 million divestment of subsidiary DMC Mining to African Iron.

11 Jan 2011
Oswals to skip Burrup meeting
Manufacturing

Oswals to skip Burrup meeting

By Dan Wilkie

Burrup Fertilisers' creditors meeting tomorrow will be without its star attraction, after Pankaj and Radhika Oswal said they would not return, and added that Perth may not be part of their future plans.

10 Jan 2011
Contract brews boosts Gage Roads

Contract brews boosts Gage Roads

By Dan Wilkie

A SHIFT from craft brewer to contract beer-maker has led to Gage Roads Brewing posting a maiden profit of $680,000, and has the Palmyra-based operation poised to launch three new contract brews during the next year.

16 Dec 2010
Office market tightens on expansion flurry
Property

Office market tightens on expansion flurry

By Dan Wilkie

OFFICE leasing is the CBD has become increasingly competitive as growing firms absorb record levels of office space, and owners of older buildings mobilise plans to reposition their stock to compete with a raft of new offerings to the market.

16 Dec 2010
Cottesloe push to undermine councils
Property

Cottesloe push to undermine councils

By Dan Wilkie

A PROMINENT Perth-based lawyer has questioned the need for local governments to remain involved in town planning, after Planning Minister John Day last week moved to smooth the way for mid-rise development on Cottesloe’s beachfront.

16 Dec 2010
Oversupply hits home
Property

Oversupply hits home

By Dan Wilkie

PERTH’S residential property market is in a state of oversupply and in the midst of a price correction with industry experts warning the market has been overstimulated.

09 Dec 2010
Seven seeks Ent. Centre partner

Seven seeks Ent. Centre partner

By Dan Wilkie

Seven Group Holdings will seek a development partner next year to create a mixed-use commercial, residential and office precinct on inner city land made vacant by the demolition of the Perth Entertainment Centre.

07 Dec 2010
Hospital a golden opportunity

Hospital a golden opportunity

By Dan Wilkie

MAJOR builders and construction companies will vie for the lucrative contract to build Perth’s new children’s hospital at the QEII Medical Centre in February next year, after state cabinet approved the project’s $1.17 billion budget early this week.

02 Dec 2010

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