Marsha Jacobs

As ASIC prepares to seek the closure of Westpoint Corporation in the Federal Court this month, the besieged developer’s fate seems all but sealed, as receivers move in on the company’s major assets, including its corporate headquarters and the Emu Brewery

Hossean Pourzand has quietly become one of the CBD’s biggest individual office owners, preferr-ing to keep his business activities below the radar but acquiring assets over the ye

Two Perth office buildings may soon be placed on the market, with unit holders in the May Holman Centre and 111 St Georges Terrace (formerly the AXA building) being asked to vote on their stake in the buildings’ future.

In the lead up to its Perth launch on February 20 at Subiaco Square, cult dining phenomenon Wagamama has announced that Perth design duo sü will be designing bar staff uniforms for the new restaurant.

More than 80 Western Australian law firms have incorporated since legislation allowing the incorporation of legal practices came into effect at the start of 2004, but stamp duty remains a major impediment to other firms considering joining the company clu

With a delay of at least two to three years before the next new major office building features on Perth’s skyline, the refurbishment of lower-grade buildings is attracting the interest of investors keen to capitalise on Perth’s thriving office market.

National recruitment consultant Hays has opened a legal division in Perth, citing a demand from local legal professionals for its services.

New national defamation laws that come into force this month remove the right of corporations to sue for defamation and protect company character.

Listed WA developer Cedar Woods Properties Limited has made a $10.5 million acquisition in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray.

Listed property manager Wentworth Mutual is shifting its focus to the east-coast market, moving its head office to Melbourne as managing director and former high flyer Glenn Wheeler takes a non-executive director and consultant role within the company.

The City of Perth has issued a draft policy on short-stay accommodation after apartment owners, the Australian Hotels Association and corporate accommodation providers last year pushed for clarification on their rights.

Michael Buss QC, one of Western Australia’s top commercial lawyers, has been appointed as a judge of WA’s highest court, the Court of Appeal.

After opening iconic North Cottesloe restaurant the Blue Duck 17 years ago, Kim Gamble has sold up to “simplify” his life.

Developers are increasingly coupling major residential development with complementary retail development, rather than selling the retail component, as a way of diversifying their

Coming off the back of a record breaking year of office sales, 2006 is off to a flying start, with Emirates House understood to be under contract for $14.7 million to listed Sydney funds manager and developer Charter Hall Ltd.

Six months after leaving Ernst & Young to start a boutique accounting practice with partner and career mentor Frank Cooper, Michelle Saunders last week found herself as the sole director of Cooper Partners, with Mr Cooper having been lured back into a big

The federal government has approved a fourth runway at Jandakot Airport and cleared the path for a proposal to develop 148 hectares of surrounding non-aviation land.

Participation rates for women at work may be at a highest-ever 45 per cent, and 56 per cent of university graduates may be female, but such figures can lead to false assumptions when it comes to women in the corporate world.

Law Society of Western Australia executive director Alison Gaines has taken a position with executive recruitment firm Gerard Daniels as global practice leader for board consulting.

If not for a decision by The West Australian to not take any female cadets in the year she chose to apply for work, Anne Tregonning may have ended up as a journalist.

The juxtaposition of a high-powered career woman and a shopping centre may at first appear ill conceived. But shopping’s not the reason Ellen Botha spends most of her days at Westfield Whitford City.

The female managing director is a rare breed in Perth, particularly in the resources industry, but Eve Howell is perfectly at ease with her role as regional vice-president and MD at Apache Energy Limited, a US-based company with a market capitalisation of

The Takeovers Panel has ruled favourably in relation to objections by both the Pivot Group and Saramac Nominees about the other’s proposal to take over Axiom Properties Ltd.

A small Western Australian company has triumphed over a large American corporation in a legal battle over the right to use the name ‘ugg boot’.

Michele Dolin didn’t take what many would consider to be a conventional pathway to a career in finance.

After a lengthy period of stagnation, Perth’s office sales market last year broke all previous records with unpredicted momentum generated by a shortage of supply and rising rents.

With one of Australia’s biggest private property portfolios, Cape Bouvard Investments prefers to discretely carry on business in Perth.

Much of the decline in value of retail and industrial sales last year can be attributed to a lack of stock rather than a slowing of the markets.

When Cape Bouvard began speculative construction on a $15 million, seven-level office building in early 2004, Perth’s office vacancy rate was 12 per cent, the market outlook was dismal and construction costs were spiralling.

Two of Perth's property development heavyweights continue to lock horns over Axiom Properties Ltd, which owns a 40 per cent stake in the Port Geographe canal development just north of Busselton.

Australia's corporate watchdog has sought to wind up Westpoint Group parent company Westpoint Corporation Pty Ltd after its auditors revealed an alleged $69 million deficiency in assets.

After a rapid turnaround in the commercial property sector during the past year, property commentators are forecasting a bumper five years ahead, with the market riding on the back of the bounding resources economy.