Rod Whithear

The Barnett government would raise nearly $6 billion by selling the state’s three major ports, if the Western Australian sales attracted the same surprisingly high bidding interest as recent port sales on the east coast.

With a record run of construction coming to a close, commercial developers are facing an uncertain few years in Perth’s CBD. Click through to find the special report, which also looks at Perth's biggest landlords, place making, suburban office markets and a green technology company.

Pindan has won a contract to build the bulky goods development at The Shops at Ellenbrook, which forms part of the Insurance Commission of Western Australia’s $800 million property portfolio that has been put to market.

Vicinity Centres has paid $319 million for The Shops At Ellenbrook and Livingston Marketplace, two suburban shopping centres put up for sale by the Insurance Commission of Western Australia earlier this year.

Chinese property developer and investment group Zone Q Investments has added a CBD office tower to its growing Perth portfolio, buying Westralia Plaza for $87 million.The deal is part of an asset sell-off by the Insurance Commission of Western Australia, which began last year.

The state government has muscled up for the renewal of legal battles over the $1.7 billion Bell Group dispute, appointing a US law firm that promotes itself as being tougher and scarier than its peers to handle the matter.

The Insurance Commission of Western Australia has today accepted an offer from Sydney-based GDI Property Group for the Westralia Square office building in the CBD, taking total proceeds from its property sales over the past two years to more than $800 million.

The Insurance Commission of Western Australia increased spending on the Bell Group litigation to $9.6 million last financial year, while also revealing in its annual report it has applied to the Supreme Court for a single trial to cover all related matters.

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