The West Australian WA’s peak property development body has called for the State Government to permanently adopt its duty rebate scheme for off-the-plan apartment buyers, warning WA’s housing crisis will only worsen if the scheme ends in October next year as planned. In a letter sent to Premier Mark McGowan on Friday, Urban Development Institute […]
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WE ARE NEAR ON TWO YEARS INTO PERTH’S EIGHTH PROPERTY CIRCLE IN THE LAST 35 YEARS. EACH HAS BEEN UNIQUE, DRIVEN BY A DIFFERENT COMBINATION OF LOCAL, DOMESTIC AND GLOBAL EVENTS. ‘In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.’ But maybe we should add property cycles to Benjamin Franklin’s […]
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PERTH NOW THE State should start planning for a second city that is not Bunbury, as well as a second international airport, according to the WA Planning Commission. WAPC chairman David Caddy, speaking to an Urban Development Institute of Australia WA function about the short-term planning agenda — including implementing Metronet, overhauling the State’s strategic […]
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