WA’s top-performing regional markets revealed
By Maja Garaca Djurdjevic
11 February 2021
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Regional Western Australia is booming, with price growth and soaring sales activity recorded in a majority of the nine centres, but consequently almost all regional markets are now in a state of rental undersupply.
Regional Western Australia is experiencing a real price boom, with as many as eight centres trumping December 2019 quarter house price growth figures in December 2020.
Moreover, seven of the nine centres experienced median house price growth from September to December 2020.
According to REIWA president Damian Collins, Port Hedland saw the biggest improvement, with the median price up 9.3 per cent on the quarter and 17 per cent on the year to $270,000.
Taxis in Western Australia s tourism hotspot on the brink due to driver shortages
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One of the two taxi companies in Margaret River says it will have to close if it can t get more drivers.
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Western Australia s South West is renowned for wine, food, and breathtaking scenery, but it is also becoming infamous for painfully long taxi wait times.
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Taxi companies in the South West say they will be forced to close if they can t get drivers
They blame rideshare services and State Government reform
A Government spokeswoman says the number of taxis and rideshare services has increased