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The median price for a Perth house will pass $600,000 within three years as the city’s property market reclaims its title as the strongest and fastest growing in the country, a new report predicts. The BIS Shrapnel residential property report forecasts house prices in Perth will climb an average 7 per cent a year for [...]

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Perth tenants should brace themselves as rising house prices, improving economic conditions and more newcomers to the state combine to force up rents this year, a leading property researcher says. The latest rental report by Australian Property Monitors shows asking rents in Perth have increased in the first three months of the year. The median [...]

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Perth properties are being sold quicker than any other state capital, new figures show. Research from property analysts RP Data and Rismark International shows it took 24 days to sell a house in November and two days fewer for units. The time taken to sell a unit was the quickest in Australia, while only in [...]

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ITS quaint facade may display its history, but it gives little hint to the sprawling family home within.   Once the Old Bakehouse, the Bassendean home now serves as a four-bedroom, two-bathroom residence with a below-ground pool and self-contained studio. Its owners bought the property about five years ago and took care during renovations to retain [...]

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1920s charm of North Perth home retained                                                                                                                                                                                           RENOVATIONS were completed less than a year ago on the 1920s home owned by Karina and Chris Hiller for five years. “We fell in love with it and we didn’t plan to renovate,” Mrs Hiller said. “We loved the location, but realised it was getting a bit tight [...]

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WILD weather has caused havoc across Perth, uprooting trees, tearing off roofs and plunging homes into darkness.    Winds travelling at more than 100km/h tore through the city overnight, ripping the roof off a granny flat in Doubleview, collapsing a ceiling in Joondalup and blowing in the windows of a house in City Beach. More than 17,000 are [...]

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A FINANCIAL adviser has barely escaped with his life after being beaten and held hostage for four days … by a gang of old-age pensioners.                                            American James Amburn was beaten until his ribs broke, burnt with cigarettes and hit with a Zimmer frame by the gang of five pensioners furious that he’d lost their £2 million ($4.1 [...]

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Morley is set to get a revamp – with the $50 million Coventry Square development now out for public comment.                                       “This is a great step forward for us,” said Greg Poland, the principal of The Strzelecki Group development company that plans to build the project. “Once the six-week public consultation period has finished we can [...]

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STAMP duty on housing loans could be abolished after the Henry tax review, which is likely to recommend states be given a share of income tax to make up the difference. The most likely path to do this would be for the Commonwealth to give the states the ability to impose their own surcharge on [...]

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