Property

INTERIOR designers increasingly are being seen as the knights in shining armour for corporate managers juggling technological change and staff satisfaction, whi

WITH building approvals for private sector houses and total dwelling units falling for the past four months, all indications suggest that WA’s housing boom is on the wane.

In part three in the series on architects and interior designers, Tracey Cook looks at the architectural firms behind the State’s big projects.

PERTH’S Piccadilly Theatre and Arcade and Rechabites Hall have been permanently listed on the State Government’s Register of Heritage Places.

PLANNING and Infrastructure Minister Alannah MacTiernan has released for public comment a public environmental review (PER) of a proposal to develop a 120 hecta

PERTH’S major commercial properties have diverted a critical portion of their lease exposure threat by pushing out lease renewal terms to 10 years, further closing the window of opportunity for Perth’s three major commercial development proposals.

EAST Perth Redevelopment Authority will auction five lots in The Village Northbridge development on February 26.

PERTH food supply group Sealanes has engaged the local community in its efforts to ease the passage of a proposed 25,000 square metre development in South Fremantle.

A LOOK at the history of Perth’s top architectural sector reveals a past full of expansion and cannibalistic mergers.

THE Town of Victoria Park has thought outside the circle in its efforts to find a manager for the Swan Portland site.

THERE was limited but steady growth for Perth’s architectural firms last year as the five largest names continued to dominate the top end of the market.

LOCAL developers are becoming increasingly concerned about the State’s planning system, which they claim is too costly and lacking experienced planners. At the heart of the matter are inconsistencies across the State’s local councils.

THE absence of regulation in the strata management industry has provoked concern about this $28.5 billion sector of the residential property market. The chairman of a Legislative Assembly inquiry into the strata management industry in WA, Member

A PROPOSAL for an 86-room floating hotel at Barrack Square has been given conditional approval by the City of Perth Council. The $25 million development proposal, put forward by local operation PH3 Property Group, will now go before the Swan Rive

A COMPANY that rose from the ashes of the failed Geraldton Building Company has won nearly $1.6 million in WA Government contracts in the year since the collapse of Mid West’s biggest construction firm.The company, Geraldton Building Services and Cab...

AN application to convert 153 units in the Paragon CBD Apartments development in the city to serviced apartments has been rejected by the City of Perth.

ASSET Special Projects and FDPSavills have been appointed joint agents to market the St Thomas Square subdivision in Subiaco.The urban infill development opposite Kings Park is comprised of 30 lots on the 1.4-hectare site.

PROPERTY developer Luke Saraceni is in negotiations for the purchase a large tract of land at Vasse, including plans for a major town.

AUSTRALIANS like investing in property and the rapid growth of investment in property syndicates has allowed small investors a piece of the top end of town.

MALAGA is moving away from its reputation as a sleepy hollow thanks to a business development boom.Osborne Park is rapidly becoming a retail, office and showroom precinct and land values are rising to match.

EMIRATES is one of two new tenants moving into the Cape Bouvard Investments-owned building at 181 St Georges Terrace.

THERE is strong speculation that another ownership change at Allendale Square is close at hand, less than six months after Cape Bouvard Investments bought half of the building for $45 million.

A RULING by Liquor Licensing director Hugh Highman has stymied plans for an indoor and outdoor bar area within the Old Swan Brewery development.

THE growing public awareness of environmental issues has led to the emergence of a type of property investor … those who are passing over trendy inner city apartments and townhouses in search of something greener.

OPTIMISM appears to be returning to the inner city apartment scene with the level of inquires in the $500,000-plus market increasing during the past month.

IN the biggest CBD property sale of the year, Ralph Sarich of Cape Bouvard Investments has snapped up two prime Perth commercial properties for $81 million.

Blackburne Properties Pty Ltd will still have a role in the $700 million redevelopment of Burswood’s 19.1ha Swan site despite Mirvac’s merger with local competitor, the Fini Group, to form Mirvac/Fini.

MALAGA, the industrial jewel in the Swan City Council’s crown, is fast becoming one of Perth’s major industrial areas.

A MINISTRY of Housing forecasting group has tipped WA dwelling commencements will fall 30 per cent in the coming year before recovering some ground in the following year.In the first six-monthly report into the future of the housing industry, the Housin

ONE developer synonymous with the surge in inner city living from the beginning is the Fini Group.

THE value of Perth’s CBD retail properties have been affected by the boost in inner city living, says Stanton Hillier Parker leasing manager, Conray Passaris.