The West Australian government has hustled to introduce and pass reforms representing the state’s biggest-ever planning system overhaul, three years in the making and previously scheduled to take at least another two. The laws, introduced and passed in just five weeks, could see the time to get a big project off the ground reduced from […]
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FIRST HOME BUYERS ARE INCREASINGLY SEEKING FAMILY SUPPORT TO PURCHASE THEIR FIRST PROPERTY According to the latest RP Data-Rismark Index, Perth apartment values rose by a significant 5.3 per cent in the space of a month to a median of $420,000. This price gain for March was more than seven times the 0.7 per cent […]
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The West Australian Lisa Holland-McNair explores a master-planned community south of Bunbury in her series on the winners of the 2019 Urban Development Institute of Australia awards for excellence. Beachfront access, 50ha of parks connected by bike paths and walking trails, as well as its own piece of preserved tuart forest all combined to help […]
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