Pets allowed:Government urged to adopt sweeping reforms giving WA renters more power

Pets allowed:Government urged to adopt sweeping reforms giving WA renters more power

Limiting the number of rent increases and allowing tenants to have pets without seeking owner approval are among a raft of changes to WA’s rental laws being considered.

  • byHamish Hastie

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Perth mayor wants ideas on bringing residential boom to the city

Perth mayor wants ideas on bringing residential boom to the city

Perth is the sprawl capital of the nation and the city’s Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas wants suggestions to provide incentive for developers to build up instead of out.

  • byPeter de Kruijff
‘Heart of Nedlands’ triple-tower project redesigned – now with giant waterfall!

‘Heart of Nedlands’ triple-tower project redesigned – now with giant waterfall!

An amazing carbon-neutral vertically-integrated community that will transform our city or a huge folly that will cause traffic chaos? Only time will tell.

  • byEmma Young
Using Keystart to curb Perth’s urban sprawl is a start – but a slow one

Using Keystart to curb Perth’s urban sprawl is a start – but a slow one

Why not simply stop allowing development on the urban fringe to stop urban sprawl? That wouldn’t be “sensitive” to the market,the state government says.

  • byEmma Young
Perth,why can’t you provide apartments families want to live in?

Perth,why can’t you provide apartments families want to live in?

We have lived in apartments before. We now live in a tiny villa with a toddler. We need to upsize and were considering apartments. But they don’t consider us.

  • byEmma Young
30% more to build a house and 5000 workers short:WA’s construction strain to continue

30% more to build a house and 5000 workers short:WA’s construction strain to continue

Building a home in Perth has never been pricier,with the annual pace of growth the fastest outside the 2001 GST introduction and almost the fastest in Australia.

  • bySarah Brookes
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It’s one of Perth’s nicest neighbourhoods,but it’s poor in other ways

It’s one of Perth’s nicest neighbourhoods,but it’s poor in other ways

In the latest of a series of controversial Perth council decisions,a wealthy inner-city area has decided not to provide a new facility for residents.

  • byEmma Young
Perth is already the world’s longest city,and we’ve dropped the ball on sprawl
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Perth is already the world’s longest city,and we’ve dropped the ball on sprawl

Our city already stretches 150 kilometres,it is sprawling at a greater rate than it was in 2013 and at this rate,Bunbury will soon be its southernmost suburb.

  • byBrad Pettitt
More than half of Perth’s ‘infill’ is just more single-storey houses

More than half of Perth’s ‘infill’ is just more single-storey houses

The greater Perth area had the lowest percentage of flats and apartments out of all Australian capital cities,according to the latest census data.

  • byPeter de Kruijff
Perth’s pub playground boom:social benefit or smart sales ploy?
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Perth’s pub playground boom:social benefit or smart sales ploy?

Some of Perth and Fremantle’s most recognisable historic buildings are getting decidedly modern fit-outs and parents are signalling wholehearted approval.

  • byEmma Young
East Perth sandpit to remain as Lendlease pulls out of Waterbank project

East Perth sandpit to remain as Lendlease pulls out of Waterbank project

On Friday,Lendlease confirmed it was exiting the $1 billion project,leaving state-owned development agency DevelopmentWA to decide on its future.

  • byHamish Hastie