• Stamp duty changes, Keystart boost needed to lift WA housing sector out of its rut

    It is no secret that WA’s residential property market has been struggling for the last five years. While the cost of housing has become slightly more affordable for some, tight credit conditions, unstable employment and…

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  • Premier: banks to blame for weak property market

    Premier Mark McGowan believes an “overreaction” to the banking royal commission is preventing buyers from securing loans, contributing to the dire state of the WA property market. Read the full story in The West Australian here.

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  • Property groups form ‘unprecedented alliance’ to demand changes to fix real estate market

    Major property industry players met senior McGowan Government ministers Wednesday to plead their case for a sweeping stimulus package aimed at breathing life into the WA’s stagnant housing market. To read the full story from The…

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  • Space to flourish

    The West Australian The creation of excellence in retirement and aged-care living has been rewarded at the UDIA awards. Lisa Holland-McNair reports. Four years ago Hames Sharley was set the task by Adventist Residential Care…

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  • Culture connection

    The West Australian Lisa Holland-McNair continues her series on the winners of the 2019 UDIA Awards for Excellence with an urban renewal project in the Kimberley. Chinatown has again become the heart and soul of…

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  • The missing middle and dumb density

    The West Australian Opinion Piece by UDIA WA CEO Tanya Steinbeck  For decades we have been building for the traditional, nuclear family of two adults and two children — and back in 2002 an extra…

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  • Industry calls for stimulus in wake of rate cut

    Following the Reserve Bank of Australia’s decision to cut the official cash rate to unprecedented lows, West Real Estate within The Weekend West summed up the thoughts of industry with UDIA WA CEO Tanya Steinbeck…

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  • Urban design prizes

    Joondalup Times TWO local projects were among the winners at the 2019 Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA) WA’s 2019 Awards for Excellence this month. Allara by Satterley Property Group and LandCorp was recognised as…

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  • Urban stories of success

    Western Suburbs Weekly BOTANICAL Apartments was among the winners at the 2019 Urban Development Institute of Australia (UDIA) WA’s 2019 Awards for Excellence this month. The six-level 74-apartment development by Edge Visionary Living won the…

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