PERTH businessmen Michael Hodgson is investing in significant property developments that include building a new tavern and bottle shop, the acquisition and refurbishment of the Riverton Gardens Hotel and a possible retail development.
LAST week’s rise in official interest rates and signs of a slowing housing sector are likely to bring the cost of building a home and the associated taxes into greater focus.
ADJOINING landowners to the Emu Brewery site are concerned that Norm Carey’s Westpoint Group’s ambitious proposal for a 960-apartment development on the site will undermine the value of surrounding buildings and landholdings.
THE recent announcement by Clough Limited of its plans to consolidate its operations and search for 12,000 square metres of office space is heartening news for Perth’s commercial property development sector.
The commercial interior design industry has suffered from the sluggish CBD office leasing market this year. While fewer tenants relocating generally means fewer projects for the interior design industry, of the projects that are out there, more organisati
THE State Government is considering a request by the Master Builders Association industry mutual fund to provide housing indemnity insurance in Western Australia.
THE growth in the number of strata title properties in Perth has led to a potentially divisive legal issue with regard to the conversion of residential apartment buildings into short-stay apartments.
CONSTRUCTION of Cedar Wood’s $18 million Aria Luxury Apartments will get under way next month, marking the first in a number of apartment developments slated for Rockingham’s beachfront.
FROM humble beginnings in the 1960s, self-made construction baron John Roberts has steered his flagship company, Multiplex, to the pinnacle of the Australian construction industry.
NATIONAL law firm Corrs Chambers Westgarth is to follow resources giant Woodside into Perth’s newest premium building, Woodside Plaza at 240 St Georges Terrace.
THE Brockwell Hospitality Investments/Western Plaza Corporation has granted the proponents of the Raine Square Property Trust a month-long extension to raise the minimum $7.5 million subscription it r
SPECULATION within the State’s development industry suggests the WA Government is considering an infrastructure levy on newly developed blocks similar to that implemented in New South Wales last year.
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.
FACED with increasing property management fees and wielding a thirst for more core business control, many of WA’s listed retail property trusts are moving away from managing agents to in-house shopping centre management.