WA residential property
Perth smashes house price records, crosses $700k median for first time
Read the full list of Perth suburbs, and how much houses prices have risen over the past year.
- by Sarah Brookes
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The man who sold the sprawl: Inside the mind of Nigel Satterley
There are few West Australian business titans more formidable than veteran developer Nigel Satterley. But there’s more to one of this sprawling city’s founding fathers than some might think.
- by Jesinta Burton
The 220-kilometre city: Why Western Australia is giving up on infill
Mining billionaires might have made the state wealthy, but it’s developers’ decades of wheeling and dealing that continue to have the most impact on daily life.
- by Sarah Brookes, Hamish Hastie and Jesinta Burton
The most stunning homes for sale in Western Australia
From a house with a breathtaking top-of-the-world panorama, to charming chalets set among towering karri forests, these are some of the best properties currently listed for sale out west.
- by Sarah Brookes
Perth tops nation for house price growth
Perth has recorded the strongest annual house price growth of any capital city in the nation, with the median house price lifting 8.6 per cent according to Ray White’s latest report.
- by Jesinta Burton
South Perth ‘timber tower’ gets tick as panel overrides council
Is this 51-storey South Perth record-breaker an environmental marvel, or an undercooked overdevelopment? It depends who’s talking, the developer or the council.
- by Emma Young
South Perth’s 51-storey ‘timber tower’ faces knockback
The tower will be the tallest of its kind in the world, with most of its occupants sharing a fleet of electric vehicles. So, what’s the problem?
- by Emma Young
Concrete jungle: Plan to convert Perth car park to tower clears hurdle
Plans to turn a 1980s car park to a 19-storey apartment and office tower in a “significant regeneration” project have got the City of Perth’s blessing.
- by Jesinta Burton
Inner-city suburbs feel the most pain as hotspots for Perth properties selling at a loss revealed
Perth’s property market has been on the rise for the past six months, but in some locations more than half of vendors are selling at a loss.
- by Sarah Brookes
BGC no longer WA’s biggest builder after putting brakes on new home sales
The company slid to third spot among the WA-based builders in the Housing Industry Association’s annual Colorbond Steel Housing 100 report.
- by Jesinta Burton
Andrew Forrest gets green light for $30m Cottesloe heritage site facelift
One of Cottesloe’s oldest homes is set for a facelift and a new mansion next door courtesy of its new billionaire owner Andrew Forrest.
- by Jesinta Burton