Kelvin Ryan

Western Australia's leading property industry groups have warned the government not to abolish its Keystart shared equity home loan scheme, arguing it could push thousands of low-income earners into public housing.

BGC's residential division is making its first foray into the eastern states, teaming up with one of Australia's largest home builders to address the nation's housing affordability crisis.

The state’s biggest home builders are innovating to tackle Perth’s housing affordability issues, but they say alternative construction methods are only part of the solution.

Supply has been a major constraint for housing affordability, but are Perth’s developers catching up to demand?

BGC Residential has launched 10 modular homes in Peet’s Shorehaven estate in Alkimos as a demonstration of what it can achieve through alternative building techniques.

The state government has streamlined the planning approvals process, rolling out consistent regulations across local governments, introducing online application systems, and removing the requirement for single homes that meet R-Code regulations to have to go through the planning approvals process.

The state government’s latest round of approvals reforms has been hailed by the housing construction industry as a game-changer for affordability and another step towards the ultimate goal of private certification for planning and building.

Western Australia’s biggest homebuilder and the state’s most prolific land developer say the heat has come out of the new house and land market, with home buyers set to reap the rewards of an affordability breakthrough over the next 12 months.

Major players in the residential construction sector say building and plumbing reforms announced today by the state government are simply a cash grab that do not adequately address housing affordability issues.

Home builders are reconfiguring their offering to provide more options at the affordable end of the market, as developers seek to maximise their output by changing the shape of Perth’s increasingly smaller residential lots.

Home builders have given an overwhelmingly positive response to the state budget, but other major players in the property sector have criticised the scrapping of the $3,000 first home buyers grant for existing homes, and described land tax increases as alarming.

BGC has returned to its traditional position as Australia’s largest home builder, with the latest data from the Housing Industry Association showing six Perth-based builders among Australia’s top 20.

Challenging conditions loom for homebuilders in WA, as demand for new housing slows after record-breaking peaks of activity last year.

WA chief executives are hoping a federal election year and a new direction from Malcolm Turnbull will ignite reforms needed to get the state moving again, according to the latest CEO survey by Business News.

The state’s residential building sector is in line for the biggest single-year decline in building activity in its history.ADAPT or die, that’s the strong message coming from Western Australia’s top builders.

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After eight years at the helm of the state’s largest home builder Kelvin Ryan has stepped down from his role as BGC Residential chief executive.