Tracey Cook

IN a win for the grass roots campaigning, the recently launched Land Tax Revolt campaign has received the backing of the Real Estate Institute of WA and the Property Council of WA, with other peak industry and community groups in sight.

Servicing a small population separated by vast distances, WA’s aviation industry faces many unique challenges. Tracey Cook examines what the industry must do to secure its viability.

AFTER a long history of song and dance Max Kay’s Civic Theatre Restaurant is set to begin life as serviced apartments.

FORMER United Airlines executive Scott Henderson will celebrate 11 months in the job as Skywest chief executive next week with what he terms a “pleasant surprise”, as the business

With the relentless appetite for prime beachfront property focusing on Perth’s affluent coastal suburbs, public debate about the appropriate level of coastal development is set to reach a new crescendo. Tracey Cook reports.

PERTH real estate agents are describing the winter just past as the worst ever for rental vacancies.

AS coastal developments such as the South Beach development the Port Coogee Marina development make inroads on land availability south of Perth, the long-defunct South Fremantle P

WA Business News spoke to some prominent local council leaders facing pressure to develop the coastline.

LOCAL property development company Access West Developments Ltd has lodged a prospectus with ASIC to raise $5 million through an initial public offering, and will list on the Stock Exchange of Newcastle Limited (NSX).

AFTER being a tenant in 26 St Georges Terrace for the past 16 years, global recruiting and human resources consulting firm TMP/Hudson Global Resources is moving up the Terrace to

THE South West metropolitan railway is costing the State too much money to the detriment of health, law and order and eduction, according to Opposition leader Colin Barnett.

IN a win for Western Australian events tourism, Perth has secured the final round in the 2004 World Rally Championship.

ADDING another feather to its ‘green’ cap, the State Government has released its State sustainablity plan.

THE Real Estate Institute of WA has formed a committee to address issues within the project marketing sector in response to the rapidly growing off-the-plan and apartment real estate sectors

While relocation can be a stressful business, in this week’s instalment of Outgrowing your Space Tracey Cook looks at ways to make the move as comfortable as possible.

THE long-awaited Barrow Island Bill, which includes the Gorgon State Agreement schedule, was introduced into State Parliament early this week.

Championed by the State Government as the saviour of a timber industry suffering the effects of rationalisation, WA’s furniture sector is currently grappling with the challenge of surviving under greatly reduced timber allocations. Tracey Cook reports.

In this week’s instalment of the Outgrowing Your Space series, Tracey Cook examines what tenants should be aware of when signing up a new lease to ensure that they can exit a premises in the most cost-efficient manner.

FAMILIARITY may not quite breed contempt for the everyday tools and devices we use, but our attitude towards many objects that are commonplace in our lives is such that most of us pay little attention to the creativity behind their design.

LIKE many other professions, the engineering industry is buckling under the weight of greatly increased professional indemnity insurance premiums.

THE State Government has rejected plans to build a $350 million international theme park, motor racing circuit and hotel on the 70-hectare site at the old railway workshops in central Midland.

Given that most fit-outs are retained for at least five years, planning technology infrastructure is paramount to both a business’s operations and its bottom line, as Tracey Cook reports.

THE recent release of a prospectus for the Raine Square Property Trust draws the Raine Square retail precinct one step closer to becoming transformed into inner-city markets.

THE Property Council of WA has launched a campaign to protest the increasing levies to which the property industry is subject under the recently introduced Fire & Emergency Services Authority (FESA) levy.

THE local economy is gearing up for a multi-million dollar windfall in coming months as the State gets set to reap the rewards of its increased international events profile.

A RECENT report by BIS Shrapnel has cast doubt on the projections of many property market commentators regarding the national residential construction boom.

THE wheels have been set in motion for what is to be the Western Australian Government’s first public-private partnership development venture.

LAST year’s Business Tax Review gave many business stakeholders an opportunity to have input into State tax reforms.

IN keeping with the property industry’s growing awareness of all things sustainable, The Green Building Council launched its ‘green star’ rating tool for commercial office buildin

BUILDING lease incentives have reached 30 per cent in some CBD buildings, a level that has not been seen since the early 1990s, according to Perth property pund

SUBJECT to an overall 29 per cent increase in stamp duty and a widening land tax net, the property industry has often accused the Gallop Government of treating

STATE Government expenditure was a hot topic at last week’s WA Business News round table, with Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief executive Lyndon Rowe sugg