Once-tight business associates fell out when Sasha Hopkins’ A Team Property Group took off like a rocket with slicker marketing and more success Ricky Hirsch’s Fulfil The Dream.
John Flint
Fugitive Perth conman Ricky Hirsch has uprooted from his Dubai bolthole to Guangzhou, China, while his many scam victims are struggling to keep their heads above water.
Kwinana’s workforce will be boosted with construction set to start on a mega water pipeline to service Perth’s third desalination plant.
Jessica Page
A shock bid by the former bosses of failed home builder Nicheliving to buy back the company has been approved by creditors.
Matt Mckenzie & Jessica Page
Regulators are launching disciplinary action against failed builder Modco Residential as they rev up pursuit of the business more than a year after it collapsed.
Matt Mckenzie
Len Buckeridge’s heirs have struck a deal to sell their BGC cement and concrete operations to Queensland-based Cement Australia.
Neale Prior
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.
The former bosses of failed home builder Nicheliving have launched a shock bid to take back control of the company — amid revelations the business may have been insolvent for years.
A Perth architectural firm which designed Oman’s newest museum has taken out a prestigious international award.
Ben Harvey
Commonwealth Bank chases Omni Bridgeway for $34.6m of legal bills beating Raine Square claims.
The family-owned WA group said on Thursday that it was in advanced talks for the sale of the business to Austria’s STRABAG, a listed $7 billion group which has already worked on projects in WA.
Sean Smith
Australia’s shortage of housing is being exacerbated by a preference for renovations over new homes.
Public infrastructure is increasingly dominating the national construction market, a spending surge likely adding to inflation pressure and worker shortages.
Proponents of a new proposal to build a seven-storey apartment complex in the western suburbs hope to get community support ahead of plans to transform the area into a mega medical precinct.
Harriet Flinn
Offers on more than a dozen development projects in Perth close on Friday and will give administrators a firmer idea of what they can realise from the disgraced homebuilder.
SRG Global has locked in a sweep of new work including a contract for a major water infrastructure upgrades in South Australia and work in WA with Pilbara Minerals, Roy Hill, Glencore and South32.
Simone Grogan
The Queensland Government’s move to scrap so-called ‘best practice’ agreements for construction workers is proof such deals would be devastating in WA, the State’s construction sector has claimed.
Jake Dietsch
SGH chief executive Ryan Stokes says the diversified business is on track for strong earnings growth this financial year while distilling its strategic direction down to two themes.
Adrian Rauso
Kiwi tradies could be the next target of State Government efforts to get more boots on the ground of WA building sites.
New documents show Nicheliving’s founding directors held four meetings with solvency experts from KordaMentha before calling them in as administrators a week ago on a $200,000 funding deal.
A scheme to help hundreds of WA homeowners suffering from a wave of burst pipes has kicked off. See the list of 11 participating builders.
A contentious triple-tower apartment complex located next to the former Subiaco Oval has been given the green light by State planners, kickstarting the long-awaited Subi East precinct redevelopment.
Jim Chalmers will put $900 million in incentives on the table for the States to make actual economic improvements including streamlining commercial zones and slashing red tape around pre-fabricated houses.
Katina Curtis
Rogue builder Danny Coyne has caught the attention of authorities over his new occupation as a psychologist treating addicts and other vulnerable patients.
