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Business leaders say high house prices and skyrocketing rents are affecting where people choose to work and making it harder to find talent, according to KPMG.

The big gains behind Perth’s best-performing suburbs

Perth’s property market is turning heads, with some suburbs soaring by more than half a million dollars. Meanwhile, others are seeing values plunge by $100,000.

  • Sarah Brookes

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WAtoday Armadale line, Transport Minister Rita Saffioti. Picture: WAtoday

Broken promise: State delays Armadale train line reopening

In August 2023, Transport Minister Rita Saffioti said she was “100 per cent confident” the Armadale line would reopen on time in May 2025. It won’t.

  • Sarah Brookes
Perth suburbs crime statistics main image, police generic, WA Police. Picture: WAtoday

Which Perth suburb had the most crime in 2024?

WAtoday has examined crime statistics for 2024 and compiled a per capita snapshot of which suburbs suffered the most crime last year, revealing some surprises.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
Sheridan Adams performs Defying Gravity.

Rejoicify! Just for this moment, a definishly unmissable Wicked flies into Perth

The new production that opened at Crown Perth on Thursday night proves this blockbuster musical is as beguiling, provocative and culturally astute as ever.

  • Emma Young
A man has died after a crash between a car and a bus in Rouse Hill.

Horror weekend on WA roads as people drink-drive from Perth nightspots

From Friday to Sunday evenings, seven people died in crashes, even as police reveal staggering numbers of drink-drivers leaving Perth entertainment precincts.

  • Hamish Hastie
A request to extend the construction deadline of two Burswood residential towers will come before state planners.

Extension sought for Burswood twin tower apartment development

In applying for a four-year extension, the developer’s representatives said “competing priorities” across the precinct had led to a change of direction.

  • Claire Ottaviano
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Port Hedland’s housing market still has not rebounded from its peak in 2012.

The Perth suburbs and WA towns where homes are still cheaper than their peak

Home values are languishing below their peaks in a string of Perth suburbs and country towns despite the number of markets recording a million-dollar median value reaching a record high.

  • Sarah Brookes
Perth investor blacklist

‘Residential dustbowls’: The Perth postcodes on an investor blacklist

Suburbs on Perth’s ever-expanding outer fringe feature heavily on a national list of the riskiest postcodes to invest. Investors are warned to avoid them.

  • Sarah Brookes
Dale Cranswick (composite image)

This Perth man had an $800 a week drug habit. He thought going to his GP would help

For about six years, Dale Cranswick used drugs to get through the stress of being a chef at a busy restaurant. Then he found the answer. Or so he thought.

  • Rebecca Peppiatt
Belmont Racecourse stewards will have the best view of the Belmont Racecourse finishing line from Burswood Point’s newest twin-tower development.

Second twin tower development green-lit at Belmont Racecourse

Belmont Racecourse stewards will be able to view jockeys “head on” from the newly approved Burswood Point twin-tower development.

  • Claire Ottaviano and Emma Young

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