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How our love affair with stuff sparked self-storage boom

Self-storage has become a lucrative industry, thanks to our great love of stuff.

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Extravagant public art is a luxury we can no longer afford

To put it bluntly, I think it is time to debate the State Government’s Per Cent for Art program.

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How changes to negative gearing could boost housing supply

Only a quarter of property investors build new homes, but there is a way to get them too boost housing supply.

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How sellers are getting stuck with massive repair bills

Who is responsible for the repair bill when a home is sold — buyers or sellers?

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Falling down the Insta rabbit hole with wellness warriors

New Year, healthy new you, and Instagram is here to help — apparently.

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How the ‘marshmallow test’ could solve WA’s housing crisis

My five-year-old daughter passes the marshmallow test with flying colours — yet the State Government has shown no such ability.

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Some tenants facing fresh hell in WA’s roasting rentals

Should landlords be forced to put ceiling fans in rental properties?

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Scammer Claus out to take advantage of parcel anxiety

It’s beginning to look a lot like Scam-mas as tricks double for innocent shopper.

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Brick-obsessed WA finally sees through huffing and puffing

Late brick tsar Ric New did a very good job of convincing us we needed to build our homes with double brick. 

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Why WA property prices will continue to rise in 2024

I don’t know how long it will take for the broader Australian market to normalise, but I am confident of some local price growth in 2024.

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Our much-loved WFH comforts are strangling innovation

After more than a year of working full-time from home, I recognise it is time to join the hybrid work revolution by spending a bit more time in the office.

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We love to hate them, but a good property manager is gold

To misquote a popular saying, a man who is his own real estate agent has a fool for a client. 

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Why the D word is not dirty

The fight that one western suburbs community waged against a proposed development was so fierce that it had me wondering what kind of gulag-style skyscraper was behind their anger.

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Exact algorithm to follow if you want to find dream home

Is there a correct number of homes you should inspect before making an offer? Heed the 37 per cent rule.

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Water is precious in Perth, so why is it ridiculously cheap?

For the price of one weekly cup of coffee over four months, you can use an amount of water that could fill a standard-sized swimming pool.

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The great Australian dream finally changing, for the better

There was a time when the great Australian dream was to buy a house and then live in it until you die. But it appears the dream is changing and I’m happy about it.

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Here’s one of the most important lectures I’ll give my child

A car is a two-tonne guided missile - you have a responsibility to drive it with caution

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Where nearly 80 per cent of homes have sold at a loss

Some new housing statistics out this week could fuel a new round of panic buying, but buyers, please beware.

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We must listen and learn as we head to the polls in October

The Aboriginal civilisation is about 15 times older than the ancient Egyptian pyramids. It’s time to listen.

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Calls for Plan B as builders slide down the trust scale

A builder reckons he and his peers sit below used car salesmen on the public trust scale. Perhaps he’s too optimistic.

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How to spot a scammer at play in online sales

Figuring out these scams is no mean feat, given the deceit is so ingenious that plenty of highly-intelligent people are falling for them on forums like Facebook Marketplace and Gumtree.

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Slash red tape now or face huge land price increases later

How is it possible, in this big brown State we call WA, to be facing an undersupply of blocks of land? The State is 10 times the size of the UK, but with only 4 per cent of its population.

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How the east coast analysts got it wrong time and again

I hate to gloat, but proving east coast-based bank analysts wrong is about as satisfying as watching Eddy McGuire’s face after a Collingwood loss.

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It’s tough but sometimes a builder’s collapse is huge relief

On Monday it was announced that Modco Residential — the building company founded by glamour couple Cynthia Lu and Yusuf Khan — had finally called in administrators and many Perth households celebrated.

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