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This Dalkeith home is Perth's most expensive rental, at $3900 a week

House That!CommentsPremiumSEE INSIDE: Perth rental fetching $200k a year up for lease

What kind of house do you get when you pay $3900 a week in rent? This Dalkeith home shows how the other half live.

Kim Macdonald

John Van Der Wielen and wife Robin recently bought a $5.5 million top-floor penthouse in Applecross.

House That!CommentsPremiumPerth businessman swaps decadent mansion for $5.5m penthouse

A high profile businessman and his wife have swapped their decadent mansion for a penthouse, so they can enjoy a lock-up and leave lifestyle.

Kim Macdonald

The house on the left sold for $660k, just four months after the property on the right sold for $49k less.

PropertyCommentsHow sales of two Perth homes show struggle for house hunters

These two suburban homes are practically identical in size, age and appearance, yet sold for very different amounts just months apart, showing the huge pressure on first homebuyers in WA.

Kim Macdonald

Timezone on South Terrace in Fremantle

RetailCommentsPremiumWhich suburb takes the crown for busiest retail strip?

Bricks and mortar shops are bouncing back from the threat of online shopping and high interest rates. So which suburb take the crown for best retail strip?

Kim Macdonald

Concept images of the Innaloo site set for a 22-unit, $8m development.

PropertyCommentsPremiumREVEALED: $8m development set to transform Perth’s north

An $8 million plan to construct 22 apartments on a vacant block of land in Perth’s north has been lodged with State planning officials.

Liam Murphy

The impact of Labor’s First Home Guarantee Scheme will be concentrated at the bottom of the market.

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Home guarantee scheme will worsen price crisis

Labor’s First Home Guarantee Scheme will drive up house prices and push the Great Australian Dream of property ownership even further out of reach.

A stock image of a miniature model of a run-down property.

PropertyCommentsPremiumRental shame: Landlord lists ‘uninhabitable’ garage as home

The number of complaints to the tenancy watch dog for dirty, damaged and dis-repaired rental properties has soared as landlords exploit the broken property market.

Charlton Hart

According to the latest figures from the Reserve Bank of Australia, housing credit growth hit 6.1 per cent in August.

Housing MarketCommentsHousing credit accelerates as first home scheme adds to heat

Housing credit growth is tipped to accelerate further on the back of the Federal Government’s expanded scheme allowing Australians to purchase their first home with a 5 per cent deposit, according to Macquarie.

Cheyanne Enciso

The sector is now led by Home Group, which started 2243 homes in 2024/25.

ConstructionCommentsPremiumREVEALED: The list of WA’s biggest home builders

The latest Housing Industry Association list of WA’s biggest builders has a notable absence this year, with this big household name missing.

Kim Macdonald

Heidelberg's concrete batching plant in East Perth.

Commercial propertyPremiumFed-up residents catch concrete maker on alleged breaches

The fight to close down Australia’s only inner-city concrete batching plants, in East Perth, has hit a new high as locals collect evidence to show it is breaching its working hours.

Kim Macdonald

Aerial urban suburban cityscape landscape view in Perth Western Australia.

PropertyCommentsPremium‘Sellers hold all the cards’ as Perth home prices soar

Perth dwellings have increased in value by an astonishing amount for the month of September, which is more than most earn through their jobs.

Kim Macdonald

Home borrowers are now being urged to consider fixing their mortgage rate.

Your MoneyCommentsWhy home borrowers should consider fixing interest rates

Home borrowers are being urged to consider fixing their mortgage rates. Here’s why.

Stephen Johnson

For and Arm and a Leg....and a Kidney Illustration: Don Lindsay

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There’ll be winners and losers under the Home Guarantee

The Home Guarantee, which kicks in Wednesday, is already driving prices up. But what do you expect when you add a demand side stimulus into a supply-wide crisis?

Kim Macdonald

Kiara homeowner Kathy Naughtin with her Pomeranian Chuckie.

PropertyCommentsPremiumREVEALED: The Perth suburbs homeowners never want to leave

Where are the suburbs that homeowners never want to leave, and what keeps them there? The answers may surprise you.

Kim Macdonald and Caitlyn Vinci

The Coolbinia property exudes resort-style living with its rooftop basketball court and poolside bar.

House That!CommentsPremiumResort-style pad with poolside bar puts cool in Coolbinia

The modern house caters to stay-at-home adult children and work-from-home parents with lifestyle amenities from a rooftop basketball court, a poolside bar and a four-car garage.

Kim Macdonald

For sale in Cottesloe for $13.95m

House That!CommentsPremiumFire Sale: Prime property in Cottesloe gets $6m discount

We know what Cottesloe did last summer - it jumped the shark. But are prices are coming back from the brink of insanity?

Kim Macdonald

Perth industrial property revolution shows no signs of slowing, according to a new sentiment survey by the Property Council

Commercial propertyCommentsPremiumWA industrial boom set to roll on: Property Council

Perth industrial property revolution shows no signs of slowing, according to a new sentiment survey by the Property Council.

Kim Macdonald

Timezone on South Terrace in Fremantle

Commercial propertyCommentsPremiumGame over? End of an era for popular Freo hangout

Could Timezone’s days on South Terrace be numbered after 44 years on site? A new advert spruiking the sale of the venue discusses redevelopment opportunities from 2030 onwards.

Kim Macdonald

King St building for sale,as part of corner landholding held by Grayden family

Real EstateCommentsPremiumFamily takes off King Street crown after 130 years

A heritage complex at the corner of Hay and King streets in the CBD has listed after being owned by one high-profile family for 130 years.

Kim Macdonald

Built at the Catalina Green estate, the display home comes complete with solar power, a solar battery, a hot-water heat pump and an EV charger.

PropertyCommentsPremiumPerth’s first 10-star energy-rated home will help sell more

Ten star homes used to be the domain of boutique buyers. But Perth’s first display home to achieve the energy rating is helping sell it to the mainstream, all while winning a raft of awards.

Kim Macdonald

Restaurateur and KHG Managing Director George Kailis.

PropertyCommentsPremiumBeachfront site snapped up by Kailis for new hospo hub

George Kailis — the brains behind some of WA’s best restaurants — will open four new venues in Sorrento, as Perth’s luxury hospitality footprint shifts north.

Kim Macdonald

Housing and Works Minister John Carey told a hosuing crisis panel discussion event that there was no “silver bullet” for the housing crisis.

PropertyCommentsCarey claims tiny homes not the answer to WA housing crisis

Planning Minister John Carey has pushed back on the idea Western Australia’s housing crisis can be easily fixed by the widespread adoption of tiny homes, arguing they are not the silver bullet to the problem.

Oliver Lane

CCIWA expects the WA economy to grow by 2.25 per cent this financial year.

Housing MarketCommentsPremiumLower interest rates to keep WA’s housing market tight

Lower interest rates and lingering labour shortages are set to keep conditions tight in WA’s housing market over the coming year, according to fresh forecasts.

Cheyanne Enciso

Rooftop dining in Mt Pleasant.

House that!CommentsPremiumThe $6m Perth home with a custom rooftop dining area

With riverside land selling for a premium, it makes sense to enjoy every inch of it — even the roof.

Kim Macdonald