REGARDLESS OF WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR, THERE ARE NUMEROUS OPTIONS AVAILABLE FOR POTENTIAL NEW HOME BUYERS. With summer well and truly in full force and the return to work imminent, people often have a good look at their lives and, in some cases, make the New Year’s resolution to start looking for a new […]
GOVERNMENT AGENCIES PUBLISHED MYRIAD STRATEGIC PLANNING DOCUMENTS IN 2012, NOW THEY MUST BE THOUGHTFULLY IMPLEMENTED. This week the Minister for Planning released the State Planning Strategy, a worthy volume which outlines how we will move towards 2050 when our population is expected to have doubled to more than 5.6 million. The release brings to 23 […]
2012 POSED A NUMBER OF CHALLENGES BUT ALSO OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT SECTOR. It was the night before Christmas and all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse, unless of course you live in Perth where the rental vacancy rate has dropped to less than two percent and you […]
STAMP DUTY IS WIDELY CONSIDERED INEFFICIENT AND INEQUITABLE, BUT ANY MOVE AWAY FROM THIS TAX NEEDS TO KEEP ALL OPTIONS ON THE TABLE. In a recent article published in South Australia, commentator Jessica Irvine described stamp duty, on “a scale of one to evil, as the green vomit-spraying head spinner of the tax toolbox.” When […]
WESTERN AUSTRALIA IS HEADING TOWARDS A SEVERE HOUSING SHORTAGE AS THE STATE CONTINUES TO EXPERIENCE RECORD POPULATION GROWTH. According to well respected economist, Paul Braddick from the ANZ, we are likely to be 90,000 dwellings short in Western Australia by the middle of this decade. According to the National Housing Supply Council we were already […]
THE LAND MARKET IN PERTH IS WELL ON THE ROAD TO RECOVERY WITH SALES INCREASING FOR THE THIRD CONSECUTIVE QUARTER IN THE THREE MONTHS TO SEPTEMBER, 2012. Every three months UDIA surveys our forty largest developers to determine trends in the residential market sector and for the third quarter in a row the news is […]
THE STRATEGIC ASSESSMENT PROCESS SHOULD DELIVER GREATER SURETY FOR BOTH URBAN DEVELOPMENT AND CONSERVATION OUTCOMES THAN THE CURRENT PROJECT BY PROJECT ASSESSMENT PROCESS. Last week I spoke at a national Biodiversity Conference to highlight some of the challenges of trying to manage Western Australia’s rapid population growth within an ecologically sensitive footprint. The South West […]
GENERATION Y PREFERENCES ARE CHANGING THE PROPERTY WE DEVELOP The influence of the Gen Y on the property market, and life in general, is now very obvious in the USA. Ironically Gen Y’s reflect some of the idealism of the 1969’s and 70’s; less about possessions and more about the experience. Of course the latest […]
ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY IS PART OF MOST MODERN DEVELOPMENTS AND ON THE SWAN COASTAL PLAIN, WHERE PERTH IS LOCATED, IT IS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT GIVEN WE ARE LOCATED IN ONE OF THE TOP TWENTY BIODIVERSITY HOT SPOTS IN THE WORLD. With local, state and federal government environmental approvals applying to many developments it can be a minefield […]