You may feel like a squillionaire based on the rising value of your home but the sale proceeds alone will only buy you another cheaper home after stamp duty, real estate agent fees and moving costs.
Kim Macdonald
A new record price has been set in Mt Hawthorn with a home that both defies trends and sets them.
A public park in the centre of Denmark is set to be transformed into high density social homes in an effort to address the town’s housing crisis.
Melissa Sheil
Perth’s ever-evolving property market now offers a new type of housing development, with dual-key apartments allowing owners to both occupy and rent their homes simultaneously.
Unaffordable property is killing off the middle class, ending a driving force that has traditionally been used by poorer people to move into the middle class, according to a leading demographer.
Property prices are back near record highs but the bump might not last in the face of affordability constraints and rising living costs.
Farid Farid
Perth’s property values are now growing at half the national average — signalling the end of its five-year run as the darling of the Australian housing market.
A Margaret River mansion fit for a princess has finally sold — at a hefty discount — after years on the market.
A Perth CBD sky home listed for sale promises the next owner a life among the clouds.
A planning application from Gary Batt Associates Architects estimated construction would cost $10 million.
Caitlin Vinci
To misquote an Australia classic, no-one will die with a falafel in their hand in these modern sharehouses, which are the latest form of built to rent accommodation in Perth.
A rare mega block for sale one kilometre from the CBD complete with a 120-year-old heritage listed church has emerged.
One of Australia’s best builders - Perth-based Ultimo - has gone under, blaming fallout from the pandemic era for its demise.
‘Rose’ is a 48-year-old public servant with two university degrees who has fallen through the cracks of the housing system.
The former Eagles coach has sold his holiday home with a storage shed advertised for its clever conversion into a backyard bar that is ‘perfect for watching the footy with mates.’
As Benjamin Franklin said, ‘If you fail to prepare, you prepare to fail’, which is just as important today as it was nearly 400 years ago.
Paula Rogers
Owning a dog can delay homeownership by two and a half years, so be sure to do the maths to ensure you can afford a puppy.
Permanent residents of an Emu Point caravan park fear they will soon be homeless with the sale of the site to RAC meaning their possible eviction.
Perth has officially ended its reign as the cheapest place for land in the country, with the median lot price jumping by more than a third last year.
Social and affordable housing has entered a new era, with a $280 million portfolio of community housing set for some upmarket complexes and areas.
WA’s property market is now worth a third of the entire Australian stock market.
Landlords have again been warned that tenants have hit their affordability peak as a new report claims people earning $100,000 a year are struggling to pay the rent.
One of Perth’s more controversial apartment plans is likely to this week win final development approval, introducing an apartment highrise to City Beach for the first time.
The report, by Mandala Partners, is partly based on claims by the Reserve Bank of Australia in 2019 that every one per cent increase in housing supply lowers rental prices by 2.5 per cent.
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