UDIA SUPPORTS THE ORDERLY ROLL OUT OF LAND FOR URBAN DEVELOPMENT. HOWEVER IT RECOGNISES THAT, IN A PROPONENT DRIVEN SYSTEM, THE LAND OWNERS MAY NOT WANT TO, OR BE ABLE TO, DEVELOP WHEN IT IS THEIR “TURN.” When the major strategic planning strategy, Directions 2031, was first being developed under the then newly elected Barnett […]
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The West Australian They’re the tightly held spots in our State that locals don’t really want you to know about. Pleasantville suburbs or townships where ‘when you buy there — you die there’. Across WA that place is Morangup, a hamlet on the cosy side of Toodyay on the edge of the Wheatbelt where residents […]
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INCREASED ACCEPTANCE OF SMALLER LOTS HAS KEPT LAND PRICES FROM RISING EXCESSIVELY OVER THE PAST YEAR. With demand for vacant land increasing and stock levels declining, there has been upward pressure on prices over the past 12 months. But rather than the double digit gains that were experienced from 2003 to 2007, the growth in […]
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