Devwest Group

Future development along Subiaco’s busiest commercial arteries could be limited to two storeys following a decision handed down by the State Administrative Tribunal.

Property development firm Devwest Group has been given the green light for an $85 million, two-tower commercial and residential project in South Perth.

Mirvac Group has cleared the way for development of its next high-rise apartment tower at Burswood after overcoming objections from local residents and the local council to its revised plans.

Western Australia is increasingly on the radar of Chinese property investors, with commercial agents and developers hoping to replicate the success of their Sydney and Melbourne counterparts in sourcing significant capital from this cashed-up cohort.

A western suburbs real estate agency has set up a dedicated China marketing arm, as growing numbers of Chinese developers eye Perth’s burgeoning apartment market for large project opportunities.

Apartment developers are increasingly being forced to sweeten their offering as increased supply turns the off-the-plan market largely in favour of prospective buyers.

Joondalup’s CBD is set to be transformed by a pair of major projects, including the suburb’s first high-rise building.

Cranes are to become a feature of the South Perth skyline as a wave of new apartment proposals move towards construction.

Finbar Group is confident it will start building its $380 million Civic Heart project in South Perth later this year, after the massive apartment development received planning approval to proceed yesterday.

EXCLUSIVE: Aldi is continuing to stake its territory in Perth, with Wattle Grove the next frontier for the supermarket giant.

More apartment developments are coming to the Burswood Peninsula, with the Town of Victoria Park formally adopting guidelines to pave the way for the first stage of Belmont Park, while Finbar Group has been given the green light for a new project at Springs Rivervale.

Interest in apartments is again on the rise, with developers across Perth unveiling new projects as the market emerges from a significant slowdown in sales and new product launches through much of calendar 2015.

Aldi’s $450 million expansion into Western Australia is gathering steam, with the German supermarket giant starting the recruitment process for 400 new staff, and construction under way at 11 of its 22 confirmed locations.

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Western Australian MP Ian Goodenough has called for a ministerial review into the federal government’s tightening of offshore investment regulations, saying the policy change is having an unintended detrimental impact on property development.

The ongoing battle over high-density development in South Perth has stepped up a notch in recent weeks.

The City of Subiaco has been trumped by the metropolitan west development assessment panel, while residents in South Perth face a two-month wait to learn the fate of a contentious apartment project on Mill Point Road.

Suburban shopping centres are becoming the most sought-after asset class in property.

Telstra’s administrative headquarters on Stirling Street has been sold and the new owner, a private equity player from China, plans to redevelop it into a 500-bed student accommodation facility, the second such proposal for the area.

A third student accommodation project has been proposed for Perth’s CBD, while a Hong Kong-based developer has been enlisted to build a residential, retail and entertainment complex as part of the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority’s latest efforts to get things moving at the Perth City Link.

Perth's upcoming development pipeline has a distinctly international flavour.

The new owner of 335 Wellington Street, home to the Wellington Surplus Stores for 75 years, has lodged an application with the City of Perth to build a $70 million student accommodation building.

SPECIAL REPORT: A new wave of property developments is taking shape across Perth’s CBD, with more than $200 million worth of student accommodation projects in the pipeline.