Perth’s next hotel boom could be staged in the suburbs with hotel giant Marriott International leading the charge by opening its first Courtyard brand in WA in Murdoch.
Raquel de Brito
Seven Group Holdings has returned fire over an independent expert’s report that urged minority Boral investors to reject a $2 billion cash and scrip bid.
Daniel Newell
The volume and value of new kitchens and bathrooms fell drastically last financial year in the latest sign of shrinkflation, but the next massive boom is only three years away.
Kim Macdonald
What is the Help to Buy scheme, how does it work, who can apply and will it really help the low-to-middle income earners it’s trying to get on to the property ladder?
Alexandra Colalillo
Australia risks falling short on its national housing targets unless 90,000 more tradies are recruited in three months.
Eleanor Campbell
The Northbridge venue that housed The Library is set to start a new chapter — despite the nightclub’s licensee being sent to liquidators last week.
Matt Mckenzie
A mysterious concreting company and the tax office are among the creditors of a major form work contractor which went under last month.
There is still no sign of construction starting on Rivervale’s long-awaited Wyndham Lux Hotel, seven years after its approval and three planning approval extensions later.
Boral has knocked back Seven Group’s $2 billion deal to mop up minority shareholders in the building products supplier.
Daniel Newell & Matt Mckenzie
State regulators have refused to renew the registration of a troubled building company just days after their pursuit of the business was revealed by The West Australian.
State planners have unanimously approved a $30 million mid-rise apartment development in the Scarborough Beach precinct.
Erick Lopez
A big volume builder has entered the tiny house market, in a sign the niche sector has developed into a mainstream market play.
Customers, the regulator and even Bunnings have been chasing a local builder. The West Australian tracked him down.
Globetrotting Ricky Hirsch has gone silent as his property empire crumbles to dust, with millions of dollars owing to investors and lenders who cannot get hold of him.
John Flint
The debt bill of collapsed builder Simsai Construction could blow out to $18 million after insurer QBE lodged a whopping claim.
Former Supreme Court Justice John Chaney will oversee breakthrough talks between the warring companies to find an industry led solution to the bursting pipes crisis impacting thousands of WA homes.
The peak group for women in construction wants the State Government to impose an aspirational target of 25 per cent female participation on all its projects, ahead of this week’s International Women’s Day.
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There’s hope for a rescue deal following the collapse of a major construction formwork company, which had been working on a new Elizabeth Quay tower.
Customers of a troubled Perth builder have been left scratching their heads as the company leaves questions hanging about who is at the helm.
A vision for the prime Floreat shopping centre site has been formally lodged with the Town of Cambridge, boasting an 18 to 20-storey tower with hundreds of apartments across the precinct.
Claire Sadler
A vacant site at the heart of the Scarborough beachfront is set to remain empty for the foreseeable future, with Chinese developer 3 Oceans revealing it has no plans for the land.
A tough few months for battery minerals has not shaken the faith of big contractor Monadelphous.
Seven Group Holdings has launched a cash-and-scrip offer of up to $3.1 billion to mop up the rest of the shares it doesn’t already own in booming building products supplier Boral.
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