Allowing worksites to operate for longer hours and changing bitumen levels on certain roads have been raised when WA builders met with the Cook Government to discuss fuel shortage issues.
Oliver Lane
Construction of a purpose-built workforce accommodation in the heart of Katanning that will house more than 300 employees of a new gold mine is open for public comment.
Hannah Whitehead
The priority list at the top of the State’s queue for public housing has exceeded 8000 for the first time, as the Cook Government struggles to build its way out of a rent squeeze.
Jessica Page
A government employee has been charged with corruption after allegedly using her position to fast-track social housing for an intimate partner.
Caleb Runciman
The Middle East conflict has already added a staggering amount to the cost of building a standard project home, according to the Housing Industry Association.
Kim Macdonald
New investors found, and sought, in one of Western Australia’s fastest growing regions.
Many home-owners are tightening their belts after the latest interest rate rise. Not RBA Governor Michele Bullock.
A bigger proportion of homes are selling for more than their advertised price than at any other point on record, including the last two booms.
The latest rate rise is unwelcome news for many borrowers, particularly those struggling with the increasing cost of living. What options are available when homeowners can’t stretch their budget any further?
Laura de Zwaan
House prices go up as borrowing capacity goes down. Here are some survival tips to get through interest rate hikes and the cost of living crisis.
The rental rollercoaster has hit a fresh low in WA.
Thousands of large inner suburban homes could be freed up for new homebuyers, if the Cook Government followed South Australia’s lead to consider abolishing the stamp duty for downsizers.
Belinda Hickman & Jessica Page
The football villain Docker fans love to hate - Rory Lobb - has sold his Hamilton Hill house, walking away with nearly $800,000 in profit after only a few years.
A Willetton home has set a new price record after smashing the $3 million barrier. And to think some agents initially thought it was worth an amount in the high $1 millions.
Almost every property sale in Perth earned the owner a profit, according to new research.
Record home sales profits are lining the pockets of people in the housing market, while pushing the price of admission beyond the means of ordinary Australians.
Adrian Black
Australia’s red-hot housing market is finally showing signs of slowing as rates rise, but it won’t be a boost for those trying to break into the market.
Cameron Micallef
Enough land supply for nine to 16 days worth of demand, according to two studies. No wonder UDIA expects we will miss the Housing Accord target by 25,000 homes by 2030.
Children and older women are bearing the brunt of Perth’s housing crisis as demand for emergency accommodation soars.
Hannah Cross
A $21.8m social housing precinct is set to break ground in Bayonet Head in the coming weeks, with the facility to provide 36 homes for vulnerable people in Albany.
Melissa Sheil
Average house prices now cost nine times average incomes, versus five times 20 years ago, and young Australians are now looking for alternative ways to build wealth.
Tom Richardson
Housing is shaping up as a key election issue for younger voters struggling to break into the property market, as a state government announces two new policies.
Nick Wilson, Allanah Sciberras and Callum Godde
A home unlike any other — and the only WA property selected for the Atlas of Contemporary World Architecture — has hit the market for $5.5 million.
A community housing provider wants approval for a three-storey building with 34 residential apartments for social housing, carparking and landscaping.
Michael Palmer
