Samantha Reece of PropertyESP attended the recent Property Council breakfast which launched the Greater Perth Councils benchmark report on Statutory Planning Performance. This review covered 29 Councils in the Perth metropolitan area and rated them on: The age of the Council’s Local Planning Strategy (LPS), Number of amendments to the Local Planning schemes, Delegation of planning approvals, and Timeliness of processing planning applications. There were certainly some very te

In our last post, we took a closer look at resales in the Western Suburbs. Unchanged, we were seeing growth rates of 7% per annum. Renovated and extended, growth rates were higher - 21% per annum. But not all properties change hands at a profit. Some make a loss. What sparked our interest in Cottesloe, Dalkeith and Nedlands in the first place was a recent article showing differences between the suburbs in profits and losses. We've long had an interest in resales, finding