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The one thing to watch for when the property market turns

The property spruiker antidote has been revealed.

Ben Harvey

Ben Harvey

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Perth’s youth homeless service in desperate need of funding

Perth faces a youth homelessness crisis, with calls to fund four new Foyers. Current services are overwhelmed, impacting lives daily.

Kim Macdonald

House That!CommentsPremiumMost expensive home to sell in Morley fetches staggering sum

The most expensive home ever sold in Morley has changed hands, and you won’t believe the price.

Kim Macdonald

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Keystart unlocks Perth’s housing market for next generation

Housing will be a focus when Treasurer Rita Saffioti hands down a pre-Christmas budget review, with rules being eased to help first homebuyers who have been locked out of Perth’s burgeoning property market.

Jessica Page

HOUSING MARKET CommentsPremiumREVEALED: Has housing inflation passed its peak?

Federal Budget documents have unveiled whether housing construction costs and rental inflation are set to ease.

Kim Macdonald

CNBC newsCommentsPremiumCocoa prices climb to new record high

The price of chocolate’s key ingredient has skyrocketed this year, prompting analysts to issue fresh warnings about extreme price volatility.

Sam Meredith

Housing MarketCommentsPremiumThe staggering average profit made on Perth homes

The September period marked the most profitable quarter since April 2008.

Kim Macdonald

PropertyCommentsPremiumWA home sells for $2k as Perth buyers struggle in hot market

Perth’s hot property market may be on the verge of overheating but there are still some WA homes available for the less than the price of a clapped-out used car.

Kim Macdonald

PropertyCommentsPremiumAuction fever hits in WA as State records biggest weekend

A small Cottesloe cottage was among 36 that went under the hammer this weekend — in the State’s biggest auction weekend for the year.

Caitlyn Rintoul

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Modco mum in trouble over building property without permit

The penalties for breaching the two regulations are $50,000 each.

Kim Macdonald

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Dylan CapornCommentsPremium
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Move on boomers, I need your house more than you do

If you’ve choked on your morning coffee or tea reading those words while sitting at your patio overlooking a sprawling, lush green lawn, then accept an apology - but also take a reality check.

Dylan Caporn

Dylan Caporn

Housing MarketValue of Australian homes may drop in early 2025

Australian home values could dip in early 2025 but a drop in interest rates is expected to send buyer demand up again.

Tess Ikonomou

HOUSING CRISIS SOLUTIONSPremiumHousing crisis: Denmark adopts new tiny home policy

Tiny homes will soon be wheeled onto Denmark properties in a move to address the region’s housing crisis, making it one of the first local governments to do so since Statewide regulations changed in September.

Melissa Sheil

State PoliticsMinister slams Libs’ downsizer policy as ‘thought bubble’

Housing Minister John Carey has poured cold water on the Liberals’ stamp duty rebate plan - and indicated WA Labor has no policy to incentivise downsizing up its sleeve as it heads to the State election.

Rebecca Le May

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Libs offer sweetener to West Aussies to free up bigger homes

Older West Aussies who are looking to downsize will receive a $20,000 rebate on the stamp duty payment for their new home under a Liberal Party election policy designed to free up homes for families. 

Dylan Caporn

HOUSING MARKET CommentsPremium$1m mania: Perth property to surge in 2025

The Perth property market rally is not over yet, according to five key forecasters.

Kim Macdonald

Housing marketCommentsSuburban Perth eyesore to be replaced with social housing

The project will transform the former public housing site into 109 new apartments of one and two-bedroom social, affordable and specialist disability housing. 

Jessica Evensen

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Cott v City Beach: High-profile vintners spark great debate

The sale of an $11 million home to former vintners has sparked one of the great debates of the western suburbs.

Kim Macdonald

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Nicheliving customers let Ronnie know where to stick $2.7m

Premier Roger Cook has vowed Nicheliving won’t ‘lay a brick’ as an audacious comeback launched by controversial director Ronnie Michel-Elhaj leaves Willetton homebuyers furious.

Jessica Page

Housing MarketPerth house prices to cool but remain nation’s top performer

Australian property values are set to keep rising over the next 12 months but controversial tax changes are helping keep one state's home price growth in check.

Jacob Shteyman

HousingCommentsPremiumTools finally put to work after 15 long years in Bentley

About 15 years after redevelopment talks began, Bentley’s new housing estate will commence works.

Kim Macdonald

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WA-first power play set for Perth suburbs

A mining sector-style microgrid installed at a metropolitan housing estate as a cost-of-living drawcard is set to reduce electricity bills by 20 per cent, with no up-front cost to homeowners. 

Kim Macdonald

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Jason JanssenComments
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Little sign politicians know how to tackle housing crisis

The penny has dropped with an across the board acknowledgement of the crisis in housing as a major issue at the coming State election.

Jason Janssen

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Funding boost to back thousands of new homes in WA

Nearly 28,000 new homes will be fast-tracked into construction across Western Australia with a $105 million funding boost to make sure they are hooked up to water, power and sewerage.

Katina Curtis