The most charismatic man in showbiz is selling the hip inner-city pad where his Euro dreams were born.
Kim Macdonald
If the Federal Government truly wanted to address intergenerational inequality in its Budget, it failed. Miserably.
SEE THE LIST: New data shows nine commercial and residential builders have collapsed so far this financial year, but three construction companies are going under every week.
While the Federal Government will be keen to push the line that an additional 75,000 homeowners will result from Tuesday night’s announced changes, it’s the unintended consequences we need to think about.
Nick Bruining
Anthony Albanese has forced to defend a furore over broken election promises as he and Treasurer Jim Chalmers scramble to fix the housing crisis by cutting back property investor tax lurks.
Katina Curtis
Key indicators for the current state of Perth’s housing market have started to shift in the wrong direction over the past few weeks. And these are the sellers and buyers most likely to feel the sting first.
DEBTMAN: There are 2.2 million property investors in Australia holding their collective breath right now ahead of Jim Chalmers’ Budget. And there’s one small but painful thing they may not have considered.
Bruce Brammall
The $25 million project, a four-storey apartment complex near public transport, will deliver 44 apartments, including 35 affordable rentals and the remainder social housing.
Caitlin Vinci
Higher rates and affordability pressures are threatening to push the housing market into a decline, with prices in the two biggest cities already on the slide.
Nick Wilson
Innaloo may not be Perth’s most glamorous suburb, but one of its rental units has the reflected glory of not one, but two AFL greats.
A humble home in Nollamara appears to have increased in value at more than twice the pace of the rest of boom-time Perth, with value tripling in a four-an-a-half year span.
National research shows WA outscored the rest of Australia on six key quality of life indicators, but a final statistic seems to un-do all the good points about inner Perth — housing affordability.
In only two months the diesel crisis has boosted prices for civil contractors by the same level experienced over 18 months during the pandemic era.
The low-deposit sugar hit designed to help people get onto the property market has failed, with new data showing a massive drop in first-homebuyer loans this year.
High demand in the economy is driving the high rental yields benefitting commercial property investors.
A $48 million Budget spend on two advanced manufacturing factories will aim to fast-track high density housing and key Cook Government projects.
Jessica Page and Daniel Newell
WA conglomerate Wesfarmers is shifting into apartment construction and will tip $100 million into a joint venture it says can help address WA’s affordable housing supply crisis.
Daniel Newell
Last month City of Bunbury councillors engaged in a heated debate to decide the future of lot 89 Beach Road, land adjacent to the city’s Big Swamp.
Craig Duncan
A ‘phenomenal’ rise in the number of granny flats being built in Perth is not only solving the housing crisis, it’s also keeping families together.
For borrowers, the question is not simply whether rates will rise again, but if paying for certainty now is worth the risk of being locked in later.
Ryan Johnson
A commitment by the Cook and Albanese Governments to build more than 30,000 homes in the next eight years has been welcomed by industry groups, but labelled as too good to be true by the Opposition.
Oliver Lane
WA Treasurer Rita Saffioti says her third budget will give young West Australians a shot at achieving the Australian dream of home ownership.
Joe Spagnolo
Dr Craig Challen’s latest endeavour — listing a commercial property — seems world’s away from the 2018 cave rescue that led him to become West Australian of the Year.
The Opposition has levelled blame for the increasing unaffordablity of rentals at the Cook Government, saying more people are falling through the cracks of WA’s housing crisis.
